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392 reviews for:
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard
3.85 AVERAGE
392 reviews for:
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
If King’s On Writing is the definitive must-read for authors, then Hazzard’s A Thousand Naked Strangers is the same for EMTs, paramedics, and anyone who wants to see a decade-long emergency medicine career from inception to burnout. Hilarious, touching, and often thought-provoking, A Thousand Naked Strangers follows a fledgling EMT through a series of cases so bizarre they have to be true. From the early days on a private bus to later days as part of Grady’s elite, nothing about Hazzard’s harrowing experiences will make you want to do this job (unless you’re an adrenaline junkie or that rare breed with whom medicine clicks). I hail from a fifteen year medical field career myself, having known my share of second-guessers, “tourists,” burnouts, and near-killers. A fantastic true-to-life telling of one of the most underappreciated occupations, I wish I could give A Thousand Naked Strangers ten stars. A must-read, can’t-put-it-down page-turner because though the author may have been a paramedic, he’s also one hell of a storyteller.
A wild ride. I knew nothing about a day in the life of an EMT or Medic and this book was eye-opening to say the least.
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This is a pretty honest (and brutal) memoir of a former paramedic that really takes you through a great deal of situations and shows you how easily one becomes desensitized to things around them if tirelessly exposed. I think it allows readers to feel more for those behind the wheel of an ambulance and also allows for some interesting insight on the sort of things a paramedic might see.
As a health care worker myself this book really hit home for me. I had it playing on the speaker at home and my husband even laughed at some of the similarities in the book to things I’ve said to him on a regular basis. Nothing hit harder than the line “I don’t know the month, the day, the hour, all I know is that I’m miserable.”
This was an easy read and super relatable. I was impressed by the authors ability to recognize burnout in himself and even more impressed by his strength to move on.
This was an easy read and super relatable. I was impressed by the authors ability to recognize burnout in himself and even more impressed by his strength to move on.
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