Drawing Blood
A Paramedic Memoir
Coming September 2026
Being a paramedic is cool. Paramedics get to drive ambulances with lights and sirens. Traffic parts to get out of the way. Patients and their loved ones look up with hopeful eyes. Paramedics help people. They are proud.
But there are downsides: Working night and day, spending endless hours driving endless kilometres without sleep, food, or bathroom breaks. Losses that feel like failures. Passing through lives that seem like God’s dark jokes.
Drawing Blood: A Paramedic Memoir is a powerful work of narrative non-fiction by debut author Andrew Bethune. It offers razor-sharp insight into the human cost for the paramedics who bear witness to the moments when lives begin, change, or end.
Andrew Bethune is a writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia. A lifelong sailor, Andrew applied to paramedic school aiming for a job on a boat. Instead he spent several years on a field ambulance in the maritimes, meeting and treating people from all walks of life.
Andrew Bethune
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