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  • Holiday SOS

  • The Life-Saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor
  • By: Ben MacFarlane
  • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
  • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Holiday SOS

By: Ben MacFarlane
Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
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Publisher's summary

Doctor Ben MacFarlane flies around the world picking up the pieces when Britons get into trouble abroad. A must-listen for anyone who enjoys real-life stories.

Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday?

Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane - a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong when we head overseas. Holiday SOS is his extraordinary story. It’s a unique medical memoir of the people he helps - and a year in the life of one of the world’s most frequent flyers!

©2018 Ben MacFarlane and Neil Simpson (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Critic reviews

“Will have you engrossed.” (Sunday Herald)

“This book is packed with tales of derring-do...a riveting read.” (The Independent)

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Kept my attention the whole time

Fascinating job! Well written story and the narrator was top notch. I wish that there was a book 2.

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A visit with a Traveling Doctor

This is a wonderful book about a doctor who escorts patients injured overseas back home. It's funny, touching, heartwarming and heartbreaking. The doctor is a wonderful kind and compassionate man who cares about his patients. His patients run the gamut from kind, nasty, funny and frightened. My favorite was the lady in her seventies who didn't want people to know a doctor was traveling with her, she introduced him as her boy toy! This book was too short and very enjoyable. I listened on audiobook and the narrator had a beautiful British accent.

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entertaining listen

I found this book very interesting and had a hard time putting it down. The only person who might not enjoy it is someone who does not like to hear someone is struggling for there life and the remedies that are necessary to help the person.

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Great story. Well-narrated!

Excellent and varied stories. There are a fair number of medical emergencies depicted so if you are sensitive I would skip it.

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Exciting stories!

Loved this book! I never thought of the job these doctors and nurses do, of flying to retrieve patients all over the world to bring them back to Great Britain. Great stories throughout the book! Narrator was a wonderful story teller, as well.

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Fun and interesting

Loved it. Who even knew there was such a thing as doctors whose job is bringing home people who have been taken ill or injured while in other countries?

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