This week’s featured healthcare blog is Random Acts of Reality written by Reynolds, an emergency medical technician (EMT) in London, England (soon to be my hometown). There’s a reason why Reynolds has been nominated for the 2005 Medical Weblogs Awards – his descriptions of days on the job are vivid, humorous, and brutally honest.

On Friday, Reynolds described the busiest night of the year for paramedics:

This job was typical. I had to step over the detritus on the carpet, the packets of tobacco, the trainers, the half eaten takeaway container. I saw my patient sitting on a chair, being sick. He was vomiting directly onto the living room floor, his wife didn’t see fit to put a bucket under the stream of vomit.

Lovely.

If you flinched at that passage, then you might want to reconsider a career in emergency medicine. On the other hand, if you (like me) thought it was cool, then this might be the blog and career for you.