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You Went to Emergency for What?
Bizarre, bloody and baffling true stories from the hospital ED, told by bestselling author and paramedic Tim Booth.
When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong.
From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everything. Every day, Tim and his colleagues battle burnout, an overburdened healthcare system and compassion fatigue, powered only by caffeine, dark humour and a heartfelt drive to save lives. But the moments of Hollywood heroism are few, as they struggle to navigate the chaotic, absurd and sometimes downright ridiculous side of emergency medicine.
Written like a night shift in Emergency - dark, unpredictable, and likely to make you question humanity's collective IQ - You Went to Emergency for What? reveals the weirdest, funniest and most heart-wrenching true stories of what really goes on in our hospitals.
When paramedic Tim Booth finds himself rushing a patient's dead cat to a (human) hospital's Emergency Department for resuscitation, he finds himself wondering where it all went wrong.
From bedroom mishaps and hypochondriacs to suspicious rashes and freak cattle incidents, the doctors, nurses and paramedics of our hospital EDs have seen everything. Every day, Tim and his colleagues battle burnout, an overburdened healthcare system and compassion fatigue, powered only by caffeine, dark humour and a heartfelt drive to save lives. But the moments of Hollywood heroism are few, as they struggle to navigate the chaotic, absurd and sometimes downright ridiculous side of emergency medicine.
Written like a night shift in Emergency - dark, unpredictable, and likely to make you question humanity's collective IQ - You Went to Emergency for What? reveals the weirdest, funniest and most heart-wrenching true stories of what really goes on in our hospitals.
320 pages, Paperback
Published July 29, 2025
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January 2, 2026
Not the hilarious book you might think, though there are the bizarre moments the professional medical fraternity come across.
The state of our health system is rather ironic and is held together by medical professionals under extreme pressure and this book is one of those cries for help and understanding from the public.
It is not to be used by self obsessed and selfish people who think the world solely revolves around them.
The state of our health system is rather ironic and is held together by medical professionals under extreme pressure and this book is one of those cries for help and understanding from the public.
It is not to be used by self obsessed and selfish people who think the world solely revolves around them.
October 21, 2025
Tim has again written a book that tells the funny, sad, good, bad and weird things that happen in a health system that is chronically underfunded, understaff and used by the public as a free service because GPs are expensive with a long waiting list.
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