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is book is dedicated.
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea is not authorized or endorsed by the London Ambulance Service. Opinions expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the London Ambulance Service.
Tom Reynolds is the pen name for Brian Kellett, an emergency medical technician (EMT) for the London Ambulance Service. This is his second book based on the website 'Random Acts Of Reality' where he writes regularly on the work of the ambulance service and the patients whom he has dealt with.
This book is not endorsed by the London Ambulance Service and the views contained within it are those of the author alone.
There are a number of terms found in this book that may be unfamiliar; for the assistance of the non-medical reader there is a short lexicon at the back.
In the interests of confidentiality patients have been made anonymous and identifying characteristics may have been altered or removed.
Read more at http://randomreality.blogware.com
Prologue: A Good Job
Two a.m. and we are standing on the side of the road waiting for the fire service to take the top off the car in front of us. The wind whistles across the flats making us all shiver despite our fleeces and our jackets.
Two cars have been involved in a high-speed road traffic accident (RTA), the parked car that was hit has been shunted forward leaving ten-yard-long skid marks. The cars aren't too damaged but the seats inside have shifted around, trapping the occupants.
There are seven ambulances here, four fire trucks, half a dozen police and three ambulance officers with clipboards. There are eight patients, all but one need cutting from the cars and collaring and boarding. The only woman involved is 'walking wounded'.
The reason that it is taking so long for our car to get its lid removed by the fire service is because of the position of one of the patients inside. He looks rather unwell and the crew looking after him reall
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by Tom Reynolds