Non-Fiction Pick of the Week: The Night Shift
The Night Shift by Brian Goldman 2010
Dr Brian Goldman of CBC Radio’s ‘White Coat, Black Art’ takes the reader through a regular 12 hour night shift in the Emergency Room of a large hospital in Anywhere, Ontario.
All the patients’ and physicians’ stories are based on true cases; the names and circumstances have been changed to protect the guilty and the innocent. Goldman has taken cases from colleagues and from his own 20 plus years spent working the night shift at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. He takes us behind the emergency room doors and shows us what really happens in the struggle between life and death. A fascinating look at the Canadian medical scene, both the good and the bad; with an authoritative glimpse into the future for anyone who has ever been, or has yet to be, a patient in the Emergency Room.
2 comments:
What I like about this book is that it de-hollywood's the ER. My dad was an emergency room doctor for 35 years and I wouldn't have done his job for the world--it is hardly the glamorous world of McDreamy's and McSteamy's!
-DancingHotDog
How about George Clooney or Noah Wylie? Probably not... sigh. No, but seriously - it would be an extremely difficult environment to work in. I'm sure it takes a special person.
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