Dr. Brian Goldman

You're cognitively not completely there.

Whereas when you do a casino shift, you are there.

You're sleep deprived, but you're much more cognitively on point, on focus.

And I can tell you that they did surveys in Halifax.

And my colleagues there much prefer doing a casino shift to doing a night shift.

when I was asked by Harper Collins to, you know, if I was interested in doing a sequel, like an update on, on the night shift, um, my first thought is how many, how many good sequel movies are there out there?

There's Godfather two.

Uh, my personal favorite is the Bourne supremacy.

Um,

But I can tell you that it's, you know, the temptation to just go over the same territory you've done before is so strong that I wanted no part of it.

And then I started to think about what had changed about emergency medicine in 15 years ago.

You know, the technology, which we can go into, it's stupendous compared to what we had just 15 years ago.

But also, you know, there is a fire hose of information, of news.

You know, you started by saying everybody's got a story.

Some people have five stories.

And of course, I have hundreds of stories and my colleagues do as well.

And there's no question that emergency medicine is in crisis.

In the book, I speculate on what a collapse of emergency medicine would look like.

There was a time when I was very skeptical about the term, and now I'm not so skeptical because I can see it potentially happening.

I don't think we're quite there yet.