A great account of life working in the Emergency Ambulance Service. It is written in an easily accessible style, I found it hard to put down and enjoyed it immensely. Will happily recommend Emergency Admissions to those looking for something a little different.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for this review copy.

I love books like this. I like reading anecdotes and true stories about different professions. I've read ones by doctors, policemen and even vets. This is the first one from an ambulance driver! It was an amusing book in parts, with some sadder stories. Obviously if you work in this line of work you tend to develop a dark sense of humour, I suppose the theory being if you didn't laugh you would cry, so even some of the sadder stories had a humourous tone to them.

The criticism I would have for this book is that I would have loved more stories and less of the personal story of the author. At the start of every chapter, there is a section where the author writes about his life, specifically his childhood. To be honest, I didn't feel it was needed in this book and it didn't interest me. But on the whole it was a good, interesting book!

Four Stars!

I really enjoyed this book. I had no knowledge of what paramedics do despite being in healthcare myself but I loved this and it really strayed from the kind of book I'd normally read. The anecdotes ranged from single pages to a fair bit longer so I really enjoyed reading this especially at bedtime when I only fancied a few pages. Really good and humorous insight into the life of a paramedic.

Brilliant insight into the work of a paramedic. The story follows a paramedic from when he started through lots of different stories and explains their thought processes and how hey felt especially when the have to see the same patient all the time. It was a very insightful and often funny book which I thoroughly enjoyed

Joining the NHS ambulance service as a driver since 2003, it seems like more drama entails on each shift than in a soap we might watch on TV!

Patients described from true journal accounts made by Kit previously awaken us to the hard work and terrifying situations they may face, unaware of at first what exactly they've been called out to. A few snippets of information can't explain how the patient is fully at all.

Many accounts involve the police being used as accompanying safety due to severe histories of mental health or abusive behavior. Patients have been known to them over time for various reasons and at times the situations are so shocking to think of being in, a great one for this is giving birth when driving and being in or near to a field in the middle of nowhere!
There's more where that came from but I don't want to spoil the book, you NEED to read it!

Kit is an hilarious man and I would rather have a jokey member of the ambulance crew than an unnerving silent serious one. The situations he's been through to get to where he is now show his dedication to his career now.

This is definitely my type of book and thank the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

This was quick, easy, engaging and reasonably light, and surely extremely commercial. It's tone is similar to things like Confessions of a GP or It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet - if I was WH Smith I'd be very excited. Wharton's interjections of his own unconventional upbringing are curious but not necessary and there's a lack of especially yucky stories that might provide a nice sales tag line. That said, I was attracted by the short article I read in I think The Times and couldn't easily but this book down. Potentially an interesting piece of publishing.