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About the author
Paramedic
On the road
On the road
Pat joined the Ambulance Service of NSW in 1977 and graduated as an Intensive Care Paramedic in 1978. Aged 23 he trained at St Vincent's and Prince Henry Hospitals and was in Course 7.
On the road
On the road
On the road
The author worked at Randwick, Rockdale and Caringbah stations and was promoted to Station Officer in the 1980s.
Spokesman
On the road
Head Office
During 1984 Pat, while still an Intensive Care Paramedic, established the Ambulance Service's first Media Unit and became its spokesman. A very young Larry Emdur is seen here interviewing Pat.
Head Office
You Must See Some Terrible Things
Head Office
Pat was later appointed Director of Public Affairs at NSW Ambulance HQs at Rozelle. He went on to become Media Manager at the NSW Health Department.
You Must See Some Terrible Things
You Must See Some Terrible Things
You Must See Some Terrible Things
The author's first book - You Must See Some Terrible Things was published in 1999 by Kangaroo Press (owned by Simon & Schuster). It details his life in the NSW Ambulance Service.
Billy-Be-Safe
You Must See Some Terrible Things
You Must See Some Terrible Things
Pat wrote his first 'Billy' manuscript twenty years ago but was busy writing his other five books. Two decades on his first book in the Paramedic Billy Be Safe was published in 2022 by Sydney and Canberra-based publishers Halstead Press.