21 must-read medical books like What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor by Tony Bleetman

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

By: Tony Bleetman

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During open-chest resuscitations, I've held a non-beating, recently stilled human heart in my hands…

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1. Emergency Admissions

By: Kit Wharton

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Kit Wharton has been an ambulance driver for a dozen years. This book is his report from the frontl… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"It's nice having a job where people are pleased to see you."

-Kit Wharton, Emergency Admissions

"Sometimes just talking to people is the most important thing. Sometimes their lives depend on it."

-Kit Wharton, Emergency Admissions

"But not all jobs go smoothly, even if you know what you're doing. All you can say is you try and cope, whatever happens. Shit always happens. Especially when you're just starting out."

-Kit Wharton, Emergency Admissions

2. Blood, Sweat and Tea

By: Tom Reynolds

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Is there anyone who hasnt wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea

By: Tom Reynolds

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Tom Reynolds is an ambulance worker. On any given day he can be attacked by strangers, sworn at by … read more

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4. Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more

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5. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

By: Henry Marsh

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more

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6. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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7. Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.14

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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12. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's A Bit of a Stretch book and Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

By: Ed Patrick

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more

Similar categories in Ed Patrick's Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist book and Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

By: Matt Morgan

4.07

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of a…"

-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

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15. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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18. Cruise Ship SOS: The Life-Saving Adventures of a Doctor at Sea

By: Ben MacFarlane

4.42

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spen… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam

By: Coleen Greenwood

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

"In my 23 years of policing, I have never encountered a man as manipulative as Greg Wilson … a comp… read more

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20. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic

By: Rachel Clarke

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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22. Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

By: Aoife Abbey

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over ou… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"When relatives and friends grieve for their loved ones, they grieve for that patient: who they were and what they meant to their lives. When doctors find themselves unexpectedly ambushed by grief ove…"

-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

"I don't believe the sickest people that I meet throughout my day at work are in the business of having outlandish desires, either. I don't think they are staring at the square-tiled ceiling of the in…"

-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor

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23. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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24. Just a Sharp Scratch (Just a Few Bumps Series Book 2)

By: Emily L. Nash

4.33

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

This novella sequel to Just a Few Bumps continues with Emily's journey as a paramedic with the Lond… read more

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25. Just a Few Bumps

By: Emily L. Nash

4.33

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Learning the ropes in one of the busiest ambulance services in the world this is the tales and reve… read more

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  • medical
  • memoir
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26. Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

By: Lysa Walder

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, … read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Najgorsza w tym wszystkim jest zwykła samotność. Możesz żyć samotnie w nieskazitelnie czystym otoczeniu, mając pod ręką wszystko, czego potrzebujesz. I nadal możesz być zupełnie odizolowany."

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

"Czasami ludzie są samotni i potrzebują jedynie kilkuminutowej rozmowy. Nie jesteśmy tu po to, by być doradcami czy mediatorami: naszym zadaniem jest pomoc w nagłych wypdakach. Ale czasami aby pomóc, …"

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

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27. On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police

By: Alice Vinten

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to London. Population: 8.7million. And it's your job to keep them safe. A unique insight to… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vinten's On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police book and Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones

28. Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By: Jake Jones

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has s… read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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29. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

By: Tony Bleetman

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During open-chest resuscitations, I've held a non-beating, recently stilled human heart in my hands… read more

Similar categories in Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor book and Tony Bleetman's What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Life, Death and Biscuits by Anthea Allen

30. Life, Death and Biscuits

By: Anthea Allen

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line o… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth

31. 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service

By: Dan Farnworth

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontlin… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Kit Wharton

3.80

Blood, Sweat and Tea

Tom Reynolds

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

Transform Your Habits

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Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

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Trauma Room Two

Philip Allen Green

4.33

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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

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The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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Ben MacFarlane

4.42

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