Have you ever wanted to look inside an ambulance flying through the city streets with its lights flashing and siren on? Surely I wanted to. Have you ever thought about what is happening to the patient there and what the doctors are doing now, trying, perhaps, to save his life? Maybe an ambulance was called by a woman who needs to get to the maternity hospital, but she doesn’t have money for a taxi, and at the same time she complains that you can’t smoke in the car? Does the paramedic who travels with her want to get home quickly after a hard shift, drink tea and write a new post for his blog? Meet Tom Reynolds, a paramedic with the East London Ambulance Service. Since 2003, he has been blogging about his work, for which he has won several awards. It is at once touching, cynical, funny, evoking both indignation and compassion. And truly exciting. His stories - tragic and comic, funny and scary - allow you to see from the inside how the capital of Great Britain lives (not only its prosperous areas) and how those who support this life earn their bread.