Cover art for You Went to Emergency for What?
Published
Pan Macmillan, July 2025
ISBN
9781761566202
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
23.3cm × 15.4cm

You Went to Emergency for What? Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED

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Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED, told by bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth.

When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong.

From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everything. Every day, Tim and his colleagues battle burnout, an overburdened healthcare system and compassion fatigue, powered only by caffeine, dark humour and a heartfelt drive to save lives. But the moments of Hollywood heroism are few, as they struggle to navigate the chaotic, absurd and sometimes downright ridiculous side of emergency medicine.

Written like a night shift in Emergency - dark, unpredictable, and likely to make you question humanity's collective IQ - You Went to Emergency for What? reveals the weirdest, funniest and most heart-wrenching true stories of what really goes on in our hospitals.

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