Tim Booth has been a paramedic for more than nine years, working in some of the most challenging environments in New South Wales. As an intensive care paramedic, he spent six years in south-west Sydney, patching up the sickest, strangest, and silliest of patients who called 000 for all manner of trauma and triviality. Prior to his career in healthcare, Tim was a motoring journalist who worked for Top Gear Australia magazine.
After deciding he no longer wanted a 9-to-5 office job but still wanted to drive like The Stig, Tim switched the flashy Mercedes sports cars for Mercedes vans with flashing lights and left the media industry to study paramedicine. Honing his craft in the rough and demanding suburbs of Sydney's south-west, such as Bankstown, Liverpool, and Campbelltown, Tim achieved the highest clinical level of paramedic - an intensive care paramedic - just three years into his career. After surviving the worst that the COVID-19 pandemic threw at the ambulance service, Tim left south-west Sydney to pursue a more leisurely pace as a paramedic on the north coast of NSW.
Tim's first book, You Called an Ambulance for What?, dived headfirst into the gritty, chaotic world of emergency medicine in south-west Sydney, a setting infamous for its high-stakes drama and absurdity. Writing it almost caused him more headaches than he'd had on the job, but Tim's knack for getting into sticky situations - and writing about them - has landed him here once more, ready to expose the bizarre and unvarnished reality of the emergency world all over again.
Somehow, he's still managing to hold down his job as a paramedic, provided he can keep his storytelling antics just shy of career suicide.