The Night Shift

By Brian Goldman

Book Overview

National Bestseller and Finalist for the OLA Evergreen Award In The Night Shift , Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of everyday E.R. visits: adult children forced to make life and death decisions about critically ill parents, victims of sexual assault, and mentally ill and homeless patients looking for understanding and a quick fix in the twenty-four-hour waiting room. Written with Goldman's trademark honesty and with surprising humour, The Night Shift is also a frank look at many issues facing the medical profession today, and it offers a highly compelling inside view into an often shrouded world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554683920
• ISBN13: 9781554683925
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.3"