4.0

"Even when you work nights, every day is the same. An ambulance is a conveyor belt, emergency medicine a factory. Hearts, kidneys, lungs, legs-the raw materials of a functioning human-pass down the assembly line. Each is broken and will be fixed..."

A fast-paced memoir of an EMT, and then paramedic's, account of his 9 years working in Atlanta. Not for the squeamish (there's a case involving maggots!). Great to read about the medic's side of healthcare, the side people rarely, if ever, talk about.