Number 25: Psychiatric

One in a series of humorous short stories about Jonothan Byrne, an Intensive Care Paramedic responding to emergencies in Brisbane, Australia (4,365 words). The books can be read in any order as the number in the title refers to the codes used to dispatch ambulances:

Despite his reluctance to do any more nightshifts, Jono turns up for work only to find he's been sent to cover the city's central business district. And what's more, it's a weekend. Dreading a night of drunks and psych patients, he’s picked up by a mate of his, Gerry Seabrook, and together they are dispatched to deal with a patient threatening suicide...