Summary of Brian Goldman's The Night Shift

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#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.

Sujets

• Fitness
• Health
• Health Care Issues

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350026023
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

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 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.

#5

I became an emergency physician almost by accident. I was a first-year resident at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and I was assigned to the emergency room. I enjoyed the stimulating and intellectually satisfying work, as well as the time to write and broadcast.

#6

Our profession is one where mistakes can kill, and that responsibility is not easy to deal with. Some doctors find it difficult to admit they are human and capable of error.

#7

When you are intubating a patient, you are supposed to insert the blade of a laryngoscope between the root of the tongue and the epiglottis, which is located at the root of the tongue. If you are able to do this, you are supposed to lift the epiglottis out of the way.

#8

The author’s mentor, a seasoned anaesthetist, was supposed to teach him how to intubate a patient, but instead taught him how to ventilate a patient manually. The author was traumatized by the experience for years afterward.

#9

I am a general practitioner emergency physician. I got my general licence back in 1982. I have never done a residency in emergency medicine, which means I missed years of training in everything from orthopedics to plastic surgery to intensive care.

#10

I was able to intubate my first patient in the ER after my period of retraining. The patient was a thirty-year-old who had become a quadriplegic years earlier in a car accident. I was able to keep him alive long enough for help to arrive.

#11

I have a black sense of humour, but I never want to become so callous that I find the suicide of a troubled person the inspiration for a joke. In doing so, I risk losing touch with my feelings and my connection to what my patients and their loved ones are going through.

#12

I checked on Sophia, who had a seizure, and I moved on to my next patient. I found out that Sophia had cancer in her brain and a large accumulation of fluid on the left side of her chest. She could not go home.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The next case was most unusual. It began with a woman’s agonizing scream, which reverberated through the department with a Doppler effect. I thought she might have a kidney stone, but instead it was peritonitis, an inflammation of the membrane that lines part of the abdominal cavity.

#2

I checked for a fetal heartbeat, and found two beats per minute. I moved the stethoscope a few centimetres and found another heart rate, which was at eighty beats. I told the women that they were in labour, and that the baby was healthy despite being premature.

#3

The Annals of Emergency Medicine study revealed that seven out of every hundred women who attended the ER and were found to have a positive pregnancy test had no idea they had conceived.