The Casino Shift
with Brian Goldman
Hosted by Sara Everts
“The Casino Shift is a real-life take on The Pitt and a warning to all who care about Canada’s fractured healthcare system. A must-read.”
Join our host, Carleton University’s Sara Everts, for a conversation with broadcaster and bestseller Dr. Brian Goldman that examines life on the front lines of Canadian healthcare.
The Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the Edge is an hour-by-hour account of what a Canadian emergency room is like when ER staff must be prepared to see, diagnose, and treat any condition, often under unrelenting pressure. In addition to the introduction of the “casino shift” (a shorter night shift), there have been incredible leaps in technology and the know-how of ER physicians since Dr. Brian Goldman wrote the bestselling The Night Shift fifteen years ago. But patients’ problems can be exponentially more complex too.
But The Casino Shift is about much more than one shift at one hospital. It’s also about what goes on in ERs big and small across Canada. From the incredible challenges of practising “waiting room medicine,” to discovering untreated cancer in a twenty-something patient, to diagnosing an extremely rare case of auto-brewery syndrome, Dr. Goldman shares the stories of frustrated and burned-out colleagues as well as the passion they have for being there in your hour of greatest need.
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