This is a must for all doctors new to emergency medicine in South Africa. Written by a seasoned emergency medicine doctor, that has worked both in emergency departments and in the prehospital environment, it goes into detail about problems that doctors may encounter during daily practice. It offers quirky commentary and useful insights to help junior doctors cope in the field. Experienced doctors may also benefit from learning different ways of seeing things in emergency medicine that they might not have considered before. Its conversational style makes it easy to understand concepts and allows the reader to engage in the ideas that the book exposes.