Emergency Admissions: Memoirs of an Ambulance Driver by Wharton Kit

Author:Wharton, Kit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Victor

Some people don’t recognise their own luck.

Night. Called out to a male, 20, rollover RTC (road traffic collision), head injury. The sort of call that gets the trauma junkies salivating. Cars that roll over do lots of damage to their occupants, throwing them around inside or sometimes out the window. Gory stuff. Off we go.

The patient is sitting by the road in the rain with a small graze to the top of his head. The car is upside down on a dual carriageway – a fast bit of road. He’s taken it out for a spin, lost it on a bend, and … well, you know the rest. He’s crawled out from the wreckage on his own. We go over his spine, his breathing, and all the rest as quick as we can, get him safely on the ambulance, then go over it again, much more slowly. Apart from the scratch on the head, can’t find a thing wrong with him.

He’s moaning about how pissed off he is. The car’s very flash, brand new, and worth tens of thousands. This is more or less the first time he’s taken her out for a spin and he’s written her off. Then, to cap it all, the police come on board, breath-test him, and nick him for drunk driving. I’m beginning to feel a little sorry for him but then I step outside to look at the car.

It’s one of those open-topped sports cars with no roof structure at all – just a little pop-up windscreen, now mashed to bits and crushed under the car. To a layman’s eye it just looks like the upside-down car’s had its roof and windows all ripped clean off. And then I start to think how the hell did he get out of this with just a scratch on the head? It’s a bit of a miracle – we should have been shovelling his brains into a plastic bag by now. At the very least he should have broken his neck. I go back to the ambulance and as politely as possible tell him to shut up moaning. He’s a lucky guy. Then we toddle off to the hospital.

The police will come down and get him later.

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