Author: Dave

My name is David Bowman. I’ve spent nineteen years in the uniform of the ambulance service—fourteen years as an EMT and five as a Paramedic. This website is a collection of my thoughts from nearly two decades on the front line. It’s a place for the “Auld Hands” to find a bit of solidarity, for the “New Starts” to learn the unwritten rules of the mess room, and for anyone else to see what it actually looks like when the blue lights go off, and the real work begins