Dr. Brian Goldman

different aspects of the crisis in emergency medicine, but also the hope of emergency medicine.

You've got colleagues that are doing inspiring things, pulling off miracles, despite all kinds of obstacles.

So Molly was a perfect example of just...

diagnosing her in the nick of time.

She's what I call the needle in the haystack.

And when you have that busy waiting room, you might have five needles in a haystack.

And you've got to have six cents.

You've got to have the tools of the trade.

I have a portable ultrasound machine.

And what I was able to do in her case was whip out an ultrasound machine from my pocket, connect it to my smartphone and use it to get pictures of her belly showing that it was full of blood.

which meant that that we had to bring her in as quick as possible or she was going to die of irreversible shock.

She was going into shock and was getting worse and worse by the minute.

And what I was trying to do by that archetypal story is say that that sometimes we don't make it.

Sometimes patients don't make it because we don't get to them in time when you've got the kind of crisis that we've got.

And, you know, Jacob, you've probably heard people listening to this have probably heard about people who have died in the waiting room.

while waiting to be brought in.

You've got Prashant Srikumar, a 44-year-old Edmonton man who waited eight hours in an emergency department at Grey Nuns Hospital and died just shortly after he was brought in.

He had a cardiac arrest just shortly after he was brought in.

And this is really happening.

And I wanted people to understand that.