The Night Shift

The Night Shift

<p><strong>National Bestseller and Finalist for the OLA Evergreen Award</strong></p><p>In <em>The Night Shift</em>, 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, <em>The Night Shift</em> 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.</p>