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A Year In Green: The Unfiltered Life Of A Paramedic
In this brutally honest, offensively funny paramedic memoir, NHS paramedic Trevor Wain documents one full year on the UK ambulance service frontline — every patient, every shift, exactly as it happened.
No heroes. No glory. Just bodily fluids, broken systems, caffeine dependency, and a sense of humour so dark it probably needs a safeguarding referral.
This isn’t a book about Hollywood heroics.
It’s a true reflection of life as a working NHS paramedic — the bits the documentaries avoid and the PR team would rather you didn’t see.
With biting patients, déjà poo, and coffin conundrums, this best-selling NHS diary will have you captivated throughout — frequently laughing out loud, occasionally gasping, and at least once hoping nobody notices you’ve wet yourself in public laughing so much.
Some days involve genuine life-or-death emergencies.
Other days involve furious relatives, bodily fluids that defy physics or simply a celebrity football match. Should we prepare for the terrorist attack or nurse our jelly legs?
Written by an accidental author who is dyslexic enough to have briefly believed the word paramedic was actually paralytic — and somehow still got through university (mostly sober)— A Year in Green is a dark humour medical memoir packed with real ambulance stories, medical gallows humour, and the uncomfortable truth of frontline NHS life.
every single patient, attended over one full year on an NHS ambulance
Let the reviews speak for themselves.
No heroes. No glory. Just bodily fluids, broken systems, caffeine dependency, and a sense of humour so dark it probably needs a safeguarding referral.
This isn’t a book about Hollywood heroics.
It’s a true reflection of life as a working NHS paramedic — the bits the documentaries avoid and the PR team would rather you didn’t see.
With biting patients, déjà poo, and coffin conundrums, this best-selling NHS diary will have you captivated throughout — frequently laughing out loud, occasionally gasping, and at least once hoping nobody notices you’ve wet yourself in public laughing so much.
Some days involve genuine life-or-death emergencies.
Other days involve furious relatives, bodily fluids that defy physics or simply a celebrity football match. Should we prepare for the terrorist attack or nurse our jelly legs?
Written by an accidental author who is dyslexic enough to have briefly believed the word paramedic was actually paralytic — and somehow still got through university (mostly sober)— A Year in Green is a dark humour medical memoir packed with real ambulance stories, medical gallows humour, and the uncomfortable truth of frontline NHS life.
every single patient, attended over one full year on an NHS ambulance
Let the reviews speak for themselves.
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381 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 16, 2025
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August 25, 2025
A really interesting read and an insight into what our heroes do daily! Really enjoyed this and fully recommend others to read it too :):)
October 21, 2025
A good account of the work life of a paramedic.
I did want a bit more as read as a patient log. I would have liked to know how his work affected his personal life and family.
I did want a bit more as read as a patient log. I would have liked to know how his work affected his personal life and family.
November 19, 2025
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I also enjoy seeing people who are currently or wanting to read this book.
I can’t express how much it means to me, you taking the me time to read and comment.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤️
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