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In 1967 Mike Scardino was an eighteen-year-old premed student with a problem—his parents couldn’t afford to pay his college tuition. Luckily, Mike’s dad hooked him up with a lucrative, albeit unusual, summer job, one he’s never forgotten.
Bad Call is Mike’s visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an “ambulance attendant” on the mean streets of late 1960s New York, at a time when emergency medicine looked nothing like it does today. Fueled by adrenaline and Sabrett’s hot dogs, he crossed third rails to pick up injured trainmen, encountered a woman attacked by rats, attended to victims of a plane crash at JFK airport, was nearly murdered, and got an early and indelible education in the impermanence of life. But his work also afforded moments of rare beauty, hope, and everyday heroism, and it changed the course of Mike’s life as well as the way he saw the world.
Action-packed, poignant, and rich with details that bring Mike’s world to life, Bad Call is a gritty portrait of a bygone era as well as a thrilling tale of one man’s coming of age.
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“A compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir that recounts a sensitive college student’s experience working on an emergency ambulance in hell, a.k.a New York City.”
— James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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About Mike Scardino
Mike Scardino is a native of Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. In order to pay for college, he worked on a New York City ambulance as a teenager, which led to his decision not to pursue medicine as a career. He eventually found his way into advertising, where his ambulance experience proved to be an unexpectedly useful fit. He is married to the woman he met his third day at college and has three daughters. He currently resides in South Carolina.
About Daniel May
Daniel Thomas May is a native of Atlanta. For 15 years May focused his work on stage, both in Atlanta and across the country, but in the past 2 years May has turned his talent to the screen, with roles on the Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Drop Dead Diva, and a number of commercials and independent film projects.