Tales from my Stethoscope (2nd Edition)

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A seasonsed South African paramedic’s true stories of life on the road and in the emergency room. Entertaining. Touching. Shocking. With a dash of quirky humour.

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ENTERTAINING. TOUCHING. SHOCKING.

Sit down and buckle up as you read these stories of the streets from a paramedic’s point of view.

In ‘Tales from my Stethoscope’, Bruna, an Advanced Life Support paramedic with more than 26 years’ experience, takes you behind the scenes of accidents, sudden illness, shootings and human revelry gone wrong. You’ll experience the fun and excitement of Johannesburg on a Saturday night … but you’ll also go to the lonely places where old people suffer in silence and children aren’t properly cared for.

You’ll read about running a clinic on a mine in deepest Africa and being the resident paramedic on a geo-survey ship plying the waters around the globe. You’ll fly helicopters over cities praying that the patient survives, and you’ll be there in the middle of farming country helping to amputate a leg caught in a harvester.

If you can stomach the drama, the blood, the grief, and the quirky humour used to get through harrowing situations, you’ll get to the end of these tales with a deeper understanding of the human condition and renewed admiration and gratitude for those who listen and act when we call out in distress.

Read an excerpt on The Shift Extension.

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Weight	211 g
Dimensions	20.5 × 15 × 1.1 cm
Format	Paperback, ePub, Kindle
Cover:	Softcover
Publisher:	Quickfox Publishing

Author

Bruna Dessena is an Advanced Life Support (ALS) Paramedic who currently does shift work abroad managing remote-site clinics. While her work has taken her all over the world and exposed her to many interesting assignments and opportunities, the bulk of her career has seen her working in and around Johannesburg, known for it’s high crime and busy hospital casualties.

Bruna is a lecturer/instructor in various aspects of emergency medicine and teaches medical and company staff both on site where she works, and in various training colleges back home in Cape Town, where she now resides with her partner. She maintains her ‘on-the-road’ emergency skills by volunteering her services to a community-based and sponsored medical emergency service in Hout Bay, and by doing stand-in shifts for various emergency services companies in and around Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Bruna was a volunteer counsellor for both Childline and the Teddy Bear Clinic. At the latter she was also a trainer and Senior Facilitator preparing children and parents for court. She currently presents lectures on child abuse to paramedics and doctors, as well as med-school, nursing and social work students at various universities, colleges and hospitals in the Western Cape and Johannesburg. She also conducts talks for teachers and parents at schools in and around the Western Cape.

Bruna has two children, Themba and Khangiswe. In 2016, she obtained her Masters in Emergency Medicine focusing on child abuse disclosure during medical treatment, and has published a second book, Every Parent’s Nightmare: The Adults’ Guide to Dealing with Child Abuse.