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Tim Booth
Tim Booth is the author of You Went to Emergency for What? Bizarre, Bloody and Baffling True Stories from the Hospital ED. He shares real-life accounts from his time working in the emergency department.
You Went to Emergency for What?
Synopsis
You Went to Emergency for What? is emergency-medicine humour writing from Tim Booth, the Australian former intensive-care paramedic behind the bestseller You Called an Ambulance for What?. This 2025 follow-up moves the lens from the back of the ambulance into the hospital emergency department, where the presentations get stranger and the stakes get higher.
Booth strings together true stories that are by turns bizarre, bloody, and baffling, mining the absurdity of why people really turn up to the ED alongside the genuine trauma that staff face on every shift. The tone is irreverent and quick, but the affection for overstretched frontline workers runs underneath it.
Readers who enjoy medical memoir in the vein of Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt will recognise the mix of gallows comedy and hard-won humanity, told from an unmistakably Australian point of view.
