Summary of Brian Goldman's The Night Shift

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#1 I am a fifty-something emergency doctor who has been working nights for more than twenty-five years. I get butterflies before starting work, and I’m not afraid of telling the truth. I pray that my patients don’t come too late or early, and that I don’t screw up.

#2 As an ER physician, my first duty is to my patients. I must keep them alive until I or someone else can figure out what’s wrong with them. If they want to kill themselves, I must try and stop them.

#3 The emergency room is a noisy place, with mechanical alarms constantly going off. It is also a constant battle to maintain a steady pace in the ER, as patients constantly want to talk to you and interrupt you.

#4 The ER at Mount Sinai is not the glamorous or endlessly exciting trauma-filled world TV shows make it out to be. It is a place where doctors treat patients who have heart attack, pneumonia, ulcers, and diabetes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350026023

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Insights on Brian Goldman's The Night Shift

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I am always anxious just before I start work. I hate not being in control, and I fear screwing up. I take two modafinil pills to help me stay awake, and I buy a large coffee for myself to keep me awake.

#2

As an ER physician, my first duty is to my patients. I must keep them alive until I or someone else figures out what’s wrong with them. If they want to kill themselves, I must try and stop them.

#3

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine released a position statement in 2001 that doctors should not have to see more than 2. 5 patients per hour. In 2011, Dr. Leslie Zun, an ER doctor in Chicago, found that various guidelines have ER physicians seeing between 1. 8 and five patients per hour.

#4

The ER at Mount Sinai is not the glamorous or endlessly exciting trauma-filled world that TV shows make it out to be. It is a mixture of blood and guts, feces, urine, vomit, pus from disgusting places, unmentionable pelvic discharges, temper tantrums, endless profanity, threats, and verbal abuse.

#5

I became an emergency physician almost by accident. I was a child neurologist in training, but I decided to switch to emergency medicine after I realized I wanted to write. I knew fellow residents who earned extra money moonlighting in local ERs.

#6

The dark-humoured nurse took me down a peg or two that day. I don’t know if I needed that initiation, as I’ve always been harder on myself than anyone else could ever be. But it didn’t hurt to go through it.

#7

When you are intubating a patient, you are supposed to insert the laryngoscope blade over the