Tom, not related to this post, but can't write a comment unless I "reply" to one posted. Think your comments things are playing up again/still. This comment relates to the post about a choking. Not all jobs go so well. Yesterday a friend of mine who also works in the ambulance service was sent to a 3 year old child choking. He was on his own on the ambulance as he was "driver only". There were no crews to send to the job, which had become a cardiac arrest by the time he arrived. The child's airway was totally blocked with a large piece of sausage. The closest ambulance was at least half an hour away, so he had to persuade a policeman to drive him into hospital, attempting to continue CPR on the way in. Unfortunately the child did not survive. Understandably my friend was pretty shaken up and was going to take the rest of the shift off when another cardiac arrest came in for the FRU. Knowing that the closest ambulance was still over half an hour away, my friend kindly volunteered to jump on an ambulance with the FRU guy. It turned out that the job was a 30 year old, choking. Again, her airway was totally blocked and they could not get any response from her. Sadly, she too died. My friend was then able to go home. I think he too earned his wages yesterday.