I'm Tommy! My ambulance career started at the age of 18 as an emergency call handler taking 999 calls. I then became a dispatcher a few years later. These roles gave me an amazing insight into the workings of the ambulance service and I learned the fundamentals of handling myself under pressure. I decided to take a step in the clinical direction in 2018 and trained as an emergency care support worker, I continued my clinical career and later qualified as an ambulance technician in 2020.
I studied Paramedic Science at the University of Cumbria which was run alongside working full time for my trust. My passion is ECGs which is shown in the webinars I run and books that I sell.
There are so many brilliant podcasts out there regarding pre-hospital care, but they focus on the clinical aspects of the job. I tried so hard to find a podcast about the other aspects of the job, but couldn't find any out there. This is where we decided to form the Bullhorns & Sirens podcast under our brand PocketClinician.
Outside of work I am a successful, professional magician, performing at weddings, birthdays, corporate events and much more. I have a beautiful daughter and a fiancée who both keep me on my toes. I tend not to take life too seriously and am always looking to have a joke.
Tommy Knight - Director
The PocketClinician Story
PocketClinician was founded in November 2021 by Paramedic Sam Bowden. It was founded with a mission to provide educational content to Student Paramedics. We started with a simple student paramedic pocketbook giving an over view of key things to remember whilst practicing as a paramedic, covering key topics from documentation, history taking and patient assessment. This book was aimed at student paramedics and all other pre-hospital clinicians as a handy pocket prompt. We started without any real brand, creating the books from home by hand. Fast forward to 2022 when we first approached a print company to produce our first official edition of what is now the student Paramedic pocketbook. Since then we have continued to grow from strength to strength. Later in 2022 we found our brand identity as PocketClinician, built our website and social media pages and began to provide free educational content to our consumers to support our product range. We developed further products including our now retired age per page pocket cards.
In April 2023 we launched our podcast, Bullhorns & Sirens, with the aim to continue to spread our mission of free educational content and to raise further exposure to our main brand. In the meantime we continued to work on our future product line.
In October 2023 Tommy joined Sam on this business venture and became a business partnership. Tommy had been previously contributing to the PocketClinician company and wanted to join the mission more permanently. Tommy developed our next major project which saw the launch of our second pocketbook, Beating the Basics 12 lead ECG book. With our new book and partner on board we decided it was time to refresh our services, define our branding, re visit our vision and values to continue our growth.
In September 2024, Sam made the difficult decision to step down from partnering PocketClinician and co-hosting the bullhorns and sirens podcast. This was due to excelling in other career goals that didn’t give him the time to dedicate to this. Tommy solely took over PocketClinician and the Bullhorns and Sirens Podcast and will forever endeavour to innovate the business and podcast to make it the best go to place for student paramedics.
If you have any questions about PocketClinician, the podcast, or even need some advice on your degree or work, head over to the contact us page and get in touch.