Where Does It Hurt? - What the Junior Doctor did next

Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes.

Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality of life as an ambulance man in Thatcher's Britain. He does this with humour and fortitude - two qualities which are essential if he is to cope with cases ranging from the absurd to the heart rending.

From attending murder scenes to delivering babies ... it's quite a life for Les, and one that he and his shift mates tread with warmth and humour in equal measure.

When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say,
1. Are you a nurse?
2. Wow. That must be really hard.
3. What's it like?

This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.

That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the department, "YOU are the most UNFEELING DOCTOR I have EVER MET!" Fun fun fun.

Let me peel back the curtain for you. It's not an iron curtain. In the emerg, it's most likely a crummy fabric curtain that too many other people have sneezed on.

Come on in.

Nominated for the Top 50 Must-Read Books for Nurses in 2012

Real life medical drama is OK…but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud are better!

Mike Cyra spent twenty-years working in Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery as a Surgical Technologist, an Emergency Medical Technician on ambulances, a Bering Sea Medic and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine.

Mike’s unique comedic storytelling style of writing is hilarious. Experience what it’s like to drive an Emergency Vehicle through traffic. Learn the wrong way to deliver a baby, how to fake unconsciousness, fun ways to chop all your fingers off, and why controlling your imagination is so critical, when you find yourself alone in a morgue refrigerator, and the lights go out. Stare death in the face and live to tell about it at the hands of vomiting children, and old women who spit food.

Laughter helps the mind, heals the body, and is a critical survival tool for all who deal with death, dying, and disaster up close and personal. Mike shows that it’s OK to laugh at yourself, and the world around you.
 

Ann Rule- New York Times Bestselling Author says: “"Mike Cyra is a good friend of mine, and I recommend his new book Emergency Laughter. Mike is a former medic with a great sense of humor AND humanity. I think you will really enjoy this book, if you are-as I am-a fan of real life medical books!