BBC's Ambulance highlights the incredible work of paramedics in the UK. Filmed in the north east the show follows normal ambulance crews going about their daily callouts.
From singing along with patients to emotional moments, the amazing ambulance crew experience everything life has to offer. Previous episodes included the story of the paramedic reduced to tears as he helped a bed-bound man who hadn't eaten or drank for three days. Read more here.
All the paramedics have personal reasons for joining the job and becoming a paramedic, especially Sammie, who reveals during the latest episode on Thursday, August 25 at 9pm on BBC One, that she became a paramedic after suffering abuse. She wanted to help others going through the same horrific experience. After treating a woman who had been badly beaten in a domestic abuse situation, Sammie spoke about why she became a paramedic.
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Sammie was moved by the scenes she saw as the woman was left heavily bruised, with a cut lip and swollen eye, and after treating a woman who was sexually abused. She said: "Being a victim of abuse you do carry it, you carry it every day and it will never go away."
Sammie - who didn't go into specific detail about the type of abuse she'd suffered - spoke about how meeting the women triggered her own emotions. She said: "That really triggers you to want to do more for them. I don't want anyone to ever have to feel how I felt. That is why I joined the job so that I could do that and make a difference."
She added: "You see yourself in a lot of patients when you've been through situations, you are just still people like they are. You can put that (experience) behind you to help the patient."
Speaking about her friendship with her crewmate Lois, Sammie said: "We both haven't had it easy and we both support each other. That is what drove us both to the job, having those life experiences drive you to making a difference in someone else's life."
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