Thread: 8 Minutes.

There have been threads about your job and threads about your boring job. And you all know what my job is. But if you want to see just what it's like to be a paramedic, and given some of the PM's I've received, some of you do, tune into Channel Four's Cutting Edge at nine o'clock this evening. The best way I can describe it, is to quote Stephen Dalton, The Times television critic:

"The ever reliable Cutting Edge spends a month with an ambulance crew in Reading as they respond to emergency calls. All life at it's most extreme is here. One day the crew delivers a baby; the next they rush to save a man who has stopped breathing. Their working lives are blighted by so called rubbish calls, by people who would benefit more from Social Services than emergency medical care, or who treat them as a taxi service. They aim to get to an emergency within eight minutes, including processing the call and getting on the road. They struggle hard not to become callous and harder still not to despise the culture of alcohol. Here is yet another reason to be profoundly grateful to the NHS."

The programme features the South Central Ambulance Service, for whom I work, but this shrinking violet is not in it. Nooooooooo, that's why it will be all the more compulsive viewing.
I hope you watch or record it.
Broomy.

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I will make a point of watching it :yes:

AliX

The programme features the South Central Ambulance Service, for whom I work, but this shrinking violet is not in it. Nooooooooo, that's why it will be all the more compulsive viewing.
I hope you watch or record it.
Broomy.[/QUOTE]


I'll be watching it back later, interested to see if they show any of the proper crappy stuff we deal with!
Big up paramedics on MoB! Glad to see there's at least two of us, Broomstick!:wave:

Do you reckon it will be on 4OD? If so, I will definitely have a watch.

I saw an ad for this and immediately thought of you Broomy. I'll be watching, if I'm in ...

I'll skyplus it x

Originally Posted by December Charm

Do you reckon it will be on 4OD? If so, I will definitely have a watch.

It'll be on 4OD. I hope so anyway..

i will be watching this too, i think paramedics do a very undervalued job and deserve more recognition for all the hard work they do.

I was a V.A.D in Scotland with the Red Cross between 1969 and 1980. I have worked with the ambulance crews back then from time to time. I have nothing but total and utter respect for the ambulance/paramedic services, my next door neighbour works in the call centre in Ringwood I think it is? Another guy I know in Wareham is a driver for the NHS, he drives the emergancy doctors around at night.

Actually, I have the deepest respect for ALL the emergancy services having had to work along side them sometimes.