AWW21 First on the Scene - Benjamin Gilmour and Rachael Mead

What inner strength is required when your working day is filled
with injury, death and despair? Rachael Mead and Benjamin Gilmour
can tell us. In The Application of Pressure, novelist Rachael
Mead introduces us to paramedics Tash and Joel as they traverse
the streets of Adelaide in their ambulance, saving lives and lost
souls. Benjamin Gilmour documents his own experience as a
paramedic on the frontline, first at infamous Sydney suicide spot
The Gap: A Paramedic’s Summer on the Edge, and then further
afield in Paramedico: Around the World by Ambulance.


Chaired by Victoria Purman