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More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
Tom Reynolds
What happens behind closed (ambulance) doorsMeet Tom, an Emergency Medical Technician for the London Ambulance service. It is Tom who shows up to pick up the drunk tramp, the heart attack victim and the pregnant woman who wants to go to hospital in an ambulance because she doesn't want to call a taxi. Tom is also a man who rails against the unfairness of it all, who bemoans the state of the NHS and who ridicules the targets that state that if the ambulance arrives within eight minutes and the patient dies it is a success and if the ambulance arrives in nine minutes and the patient's life is saved it is a fail.Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the emergency services. From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heart-warming to the terrifying, Blood, Sweat and Tea 2 is packed with fascinating anecdotes that veer from tragic to hilarious; heart-warming to terrifying and Tom deftly leads the reader through a rollercoaster of emotion.In the brilliant and bestselling Blood Sweat and Tea Tom gives a fascinating – and at times alarming – picture of life in inner-city Britain and the people who are paid to mop up after it.Captures the thrills, heartbreak and frustrations of medicine in a way that resonates with readers around the world.
MORE BLOOD, MORE SWEAT
and ANOTHER CUP of TEA
Tom Reynolds
Copyright (#ulink_f0b49052-844e-5f6a-8b3b-47728ae93c5f)
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.
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First published by The Friday Project in 2009
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Source ISBN: 9781906321406
Ebook Edition © MAY 2013 ISBN: 9780007332694
Version: 2016-08-08
Dedication (#ulink_174827e8-fa15-59c5-814e-cecc72149826)
Without my patients I would not be the person that I am today –and ultimately it is to them that this book is dedicated.
Contents
Cover (#uc185a5d0-38bd-5144-9083-dabdd8336faf)
Title Page (#u305b3239-7931-5df0-8e5b-5030c92105fc)
Copyright
Dedication (#ulink_61d651ac-80f2-544a-b815-0884e21b3ee8)
Prologue: A Good Job (#u24775b21-dff6-5052-8c45-29df57412835)
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Taxi (#ulink_41ce3ae6-44a5-5b40-b9de-4bb70f80e987)
Chapter 2 – Leaving My Job (#ulink_dad078a7-9295-509b-b812-f5871a57fc63)
Chapter 3 – Zafira (#ulink_c235e8a7-8e8e-53f1-81e9-ab6c69d63c69)
Chapter 4 – NYE Night (#ulink_95d4bf97-5325-5c94-a7b8-a627bc9b507e)
Chapter 5 – Ten Deep Breaths (#ulink_83dd1a6b-9433-5465-9eb6-63d3a8ae4c49)
Chapter 6 – Taxi? (#ulink_0c780555-18bb-591e-9d41-3a603b62d2ef)
Chapter 7 – Chickenpox (#ulink_4e2def5f-09d2-57c5-8ea3-db108c0bbce0)
Chapter 8 – Rough (#ulink_0e41e98d-aba9-5229-84da-eadff4b77575)
Chapter 9 – The Black Dog Has Been Taken Outside and Shot (#ulink_895ae710-5254-5c71-8de2-8b6b25f66a6c)
Chapter 10 – Complaint (#ulink_40488f59-0198-5b07-8919-07070ccc958c)
Chapter 11 – Snapshots (#ulink_f1c695d5-3073-5d4c-a347-4fc0be01b939)
Chapter 12 – Repeat Offender (#ulink_9c74eb4f-aefb-5141-b7f1-855de25bfe15)
Chapter 13 – Algesia (#ulink_fd52622b-ea82-5c94-a44a-34c9fda7820d)
Chapter 14 – Back on the Car… (#ulink_989a8aaa-c25b-5550-bf36-1e37402c5a97)
Chapter 15 – Wee-Wee (#ulink_e5bd717e-b2d8-577f-adfe-07c7a77473ca)
Chapter 16 – Swagger (#ulink_c61ad533-3a03-5c4c-b3a3-3bc90dfdd46c)
Chapter 17 – Scent (#ulink_227f5778-317a-5873-a050-12a25e582c23)
Chapter 18 – Betting Shops (#ulink_906bdefd-3692-5cda-8da3-425ed72a6130)
Chapter 19 – It Says ‘London’ on the Side (#ulink_1a815ff6-b5fe-55da-9d1f-90ce696b1dc5)
Chapter 20 – Good Job/Bad Job (#ulink_de2e553f-b388-5866-a8b3-c0f3bfe398f7)
Chapter 21 – Valentine’s Day (#ulink_57332ed2-06d4-523b-aeb0-27ab50d589be)
Chapter 22 – Tagged (#ulink_8b5dee88-7ec1-5cd1-ad90-5be280ecae3b)
Chapter 23 – Lost Words (#ulink_6416cb86-1533-55a2-b5d6-45ce3eb51aeb)
Chapter 24 – Bleurgh (#ulink_58640fda-750a-5d2e-ae15-84e3913e1764)
Chapter 25 – Free-Market Oxygen (#ulink_e17661b8-a116-555a-bc68-a19b73539da8)
Chapter 26 – Uniform (#ulink_c2c42695-9a5b-552f-851f-273fc81870e0)
Chapter 27 – Abuse Your Ambulance Crew (#ulink_73aaea78-6b03-545a-9fc3-61b0b18fd920)
Chapter 28 – Slow Suicide (#ulink_eb7d93f5-bd5a-5190-a16e-0a491527cf7a)
Chapter 29 – I Wouldn’t Trust Them with My Dog (#ulink_ce2f2db4-26cb-5163-8a07-1b57da398ee7)
Chapter 30 – Laughing Policeman (#ulink_706a4884-2aad-5731-8d27-60f53353483e)
Chapter 31 – Structural Collapse (#ulink_e2bde21a-a933-5d97-ad4c-ba5ab089938b)
Chapter 32 – Shorn (#ulink_4e0183c7-911f-54d2-b6b5-371c128e7b33)
Chapter 33 – 12th November 2046 (#ulink_c6df169f-793d-528a-9cb4-6c73c0a67e16)
Chapter 34 – On the Power of Blankets (#ulink_0c7482c0-75c9-53ac-960b-d1a098bec8df)
Chapter 35 – Friday Night’s All Right for Fighting (#ulink_fdd6415e-10d6-56a4-b1f8-092de656004d)
Chapter 36 – Gassed and Splinted (#ulink_b83e53ae-b262-5081-ae91-c56594624295)
Chapter 37 – More Crap GP Work (#ulink_498d10f7-9cbe-5499-a501-27498d76c9b2)
Chapter 38 – Wasting the Time of a GP (#ulink_1fef4ac9-a08f-5b82-abc2-55195b1cc4f7)
Chapter 39 – Small Observation (#ulink_5b564a9b-7004-508e-9fef-33beaef65e39)
Chapter 40 – (Another) Nan Down (#ulink_9183937d-471c-55fb-868c-a004e31c2764)
Chapter 41 – More Madness in East London (#ulink_b740b4b9-228b-5f25-b1e6-3c8189a842c4)
Chapter 42 – Ethnic Relations (#ulink_dba30582-df58-565d-92b1-056e0925b512)
Chapter 43 – Lying to Patients (#ulink_9d61d79d-5c08-5db2-b88f-6bb8d6ad1b67)
Chapter 44 – Patientside (#ulink_a5bd9054-4b4f-5eb6-b0c6-c38185f887c3)
Chapter 45 – Hit and Run (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 – Happiness Is (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 – Offering the Chance (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 48 – Shaken Baby (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 49 – On the Strange Thoughts that Assai I You at Five in the Morning (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 50 – Taxi Driving (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 51 – An Upsetting Job (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 52 – Being Lied to (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 53 – Clockwatching (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 54 – Thank You Taxpayers (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 55 – Helpful Demons (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 56 – Absurd Council ‘Thinking’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 57 – Last Night’s ‘Off Job’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 58 – Wild Geese (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 59 – Why You Should Pull Over and Let Us Pass (Or Hahahahahaha …) (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 60 – Arranged (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 61 – Sugar (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 62 – F-off (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 63 – The Standard Weekend Night (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 64 – Moped Madness (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 65 – Sucking Lungs (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 66 – Persuasion (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 67 – The Jobs We Do… (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 68 – On Dealing with a Brain Surgeon (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 69 – Forgetting Your History (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 70 – A Warning (#litres_trial_promo)
