Mike Scardino is a native of Elmhurst, Queens. In order to pay for college, he worked on a New York City ambulance as a teenager, which led to his decision not to pursue medicine as a career. Mike eventually found his way into advertising, where his ambulance experience proved to be an unexpectedly useful fit. He is married to the woman he met his third day at college and has three daughters. He currently resides in South Carolina.
"Bad Call is a compulsively readable, totally unforgettable memoir
that recounts a sensitive college student's experience working on
an emergency ambulance in hell, aka New York City."--James
Patterson
"[A] fresh and powerful debut memoir...From accidental deaths to
suicides, Scardino writes with the detail of a crime
reporter...Scardino's unsparing memoir offers an empathetic look at
human pain and suffering."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"A laugh-till-you-cry look at 1960s New York through the eyes of an
ambulance driver who saw the city at its most vulnerable and
bloody. Scardino, who worked in a Queens ambulance for four summers
in the 1960s, encountered the grotesque and the ludicrous daily and
shares his tales in hilarious and harrowing detail. A fun slice of
NY life that is not for the squeamish."--NY Post
"In the late 1960s, Mike Scardino took a summer job on an ambulance
crew in New York City, offering him a strange, macabre, and
compelling insight into a part of city life seldom seen...Morbid
and entertaining: a snapshot of life and death in the big city of a
bygone era."--CrimeReads
"This remarkable memoir, a vivid and gruesome record of his
experiences...are like a punch in the gut. Even when a patient
survives, there is always suffering, which Scardino captures with
empathy and outrage."
--National Book Review
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