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Blood, Sweat, and Tea : real-life adventures in an inner-city ambulance

Blood, Sweat & Tea is a book by ambulance technician Brian Kellett, writing under the pseudonym Tom Reynolds , about life in the London Ambulance Service . The book is compiled from posts and correspondence from the blog Random Acts of Reality of the earliest high-readership blogs in England . The book covers Reynolds's career from 2003–2006, and discusses his career as an emergency medical technician and a rapid responder . Although often extremely critical of NHS policies and management, the book was extremely well received within the European emergency services , and the book (with its associated blog) is now cited in the NHS's own guidelines on staff blogging. Unusually for a newly published mainstream book, the entire text of the book was placed online under a Creative Commons Licence . The book has also inspired the TV series Sirens , which first aired in June 2011 on Channel 4 .

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