'During open-chest resuscitations, I've held a non-beating, recently stilled human heart in my hands. And, should you ever get to hold one, you will find the human heart to be rubbery and shockingly light.'
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? is a report from the front line of emergency medicine, the first ever account of what it is like to work as an air ambulance doctor. Whether describing cutting through a patient's breastbone to plug a stab wound or barrel rolling a light aircraft at 5,000 feet, Tony Bleetman captures the sheer adrenaline of racing through the sky to save lives. You will learn how to land a helicopter on the side of a mountain, what it means to encounter death every day, and how to perform a tracheotomy in real life (clue: it doesn’t involve a ball-point pen).
Funny, shocking and moving, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? is a glimpse at a world where the wrong decision can mean the difference between life and death.
Originally published as You Can't Park There: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor.
- ISBN10 1529105080
- ISBN13 9781529105087
- Publish Date 26 November 2019
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Ebury Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9781529105087