# Can You Hear Me?

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- Book: [Can You Hear Me?](https://www.bookquiver.com/jake-jones/can-you-hear-me) ([Can You Hear Me?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jake-jones/can-you-hear-me.md))
- Authors: [Jake Jones](https://www.bookquiver.com/jake-jones)
- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-15-2940-427-2
- Published: 2020-02-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian with a nasty head injury won't let the crew near him on a busy road. A newborn baby is worryingly silent. An addict urinates on the ambulance floor when denied a fix. This is the life of an ambulance paramedic. Jake Jones has worked in the UK ambulance service for ten years: every day, he sees a dozen of the scenes we hope to see only once in a lifetime. Can You Hear Me? - the first thing he says when he arrives on the scene - is a memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life on the front-lines of medicine in the UK. As well as a look into dozens of extraordinary scenes - the hoarder who won't move his collection to let his ailing father leave the house, the blood-soaked man who tries to escape from the ambulance, the life saved by a lucky crew who had been called to see someone else entirely - Can You Hear Me? is an honest examination of the strains and challenges of one of the most demanding and important jobs anyone can do. (P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited