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Hard Roll
- A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
- Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre - and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all. He chronicles some of the most formative calls of his career in this autobiography that sounds like crime fiction. McCarthy demonstrates with detail and clarity that the difficult choice is often the right choice. While not for the faint of heart, each entry in this collection provides poignant insight into the bonds between medics and the people and city they serve.
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, and a veteran of the United States Coast Guard, Jon McCarthy is proud to be an emergency room paramedic. Since 1996, he has worked in emergency medical services in helicopters, clinics, hospitals, and on the streets of New Orleans. He is one of the co-creators of the New Orleans EMS Field Training Officer (FTO) program and served as the Lead FTO for five years. McCarthy was featured on The Learning Channel program Paramedics and has a side career as an actor.
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- Cee Jay
- 01-09-23
gory, honest
really interesting insight into the worst day of a person's life, and the first responders who're tasked to scrape them up. Some dark humour & gory details
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- S.Sugden
- 23-04-23
Eye opening and humorous.
I absolutely loved listening to this book. It was really well written, lifting dark and harrowing experiences with bizarre and undeniably funny moments. It was wonderfully narrated and is definitely a book I will return to.
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- Rachael
- 13-09-24
Fascinating listen
Good narrator and a nice balance of funny and serious stories. A very easy listen.
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- Justin Smith
- 21-08-23
Intriguing, Well read and full of passion
The book is read by the Author, which always wins a bonus point from me. Jon Mcarthy does a great job of narrating his own book. You can tell he isn't a professional narrator but that he's very passionate about his job, his book and the people he tries to help.
I listened to this in pieces over a month, It's a fantastic book and worth every penny, especially as it's included with Audible.
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- Jess Botha
- 02-06-23
Great book but the narrator changes?!
I really enjoyed the content of this book. When I saw that it was free on Audible I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. The only thing I didn't like was that there are parts when the narrator changes, and then goes back to the original one again. Either that, or their voice is recorded in such a way that they sound like a completely different person. It's really distracting and irritating.
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- kahmen
- 30-08-19
100 present best book
Loved it it will help so much if you want to join ems as itl give some good tips for dealing whit the stress of the job
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-06-23
Great listen
Great book enjoyed from the first word until the last .
This book is a great insight to the world of EMS and what frontline ambulance crews deal with daily a must listen for all current and upcoming first responders
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- Cherie
- 14-04-24
Loved this!
I wish I could listen to more of these stories. I loved the humour, as well as the pathos. Funnily enough, I'm soon to go to New Orleans (I'm from the UK) and I'll be thinking about this book the whole time I'm there. Thank you for writing this!
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