Tim Booth is an intensive care paramedic who worked for 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.
He continues to punish himself with the gruelling night shifts and long days that being a paramedic demands and occasionally revisits his former life in the form of freelance journalism on the side.
After surviving the worst that the COVID-19 pandemic threw at the ambulance service, Tim left south-west Sydney to pursue a (hopefully) more leisurely pace as a paramedic on the north coast of NSW.