Dr. Brian Goldman

And honestly, the other thing that I put into the book on purpose

were some inspiring stories.

I have tremendously inspiring stories that have been told to me by my colleagues, like my friend and colleague, Dr. Trevor Jane in Prince Edward Island.

He, as a senior medical student in the Canadian Forces Reserves,

was tapped to be in charge of what they called the mortuary, the temporary mortuary at Hangar B at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater off Peggy's Cove, where Swiss Air 111 went down.

And the reason why they tapped him was that he was a senior medical student who had experience working in a pathology lab.

And they tasked him with heading to Hangar B and trying to create order out of chaos, which is what he did.

I wrote about him in my previous book, The Power of Teamwork.

And and he tells a story.

He gave me a story that that I tell in the new book, The Casino Shift, that he was just finishing a shift in the emergency department, had gotten out of his greens and was in his street clothes.

And he heard on the radio that paramedics were bringing a 15 year old boy who was found sprawled in a snowbank.

Half clothed, half frozen to death.

And right there on the spot, the nurses prevailed on him and he decided to stay, got back into his greens.

And for the next seven hours, he and two nurses pulled every trick in the book to warm this kid up and eventually at about 29 degrees Celsius, got a pulse and got him back.

And he spent some time in hospital, lost a few fingers to frostbite.

But today he is alive.

He has a family.

He has a job.

And my friend Trevor Jane has the best birthday present that he will ever have in his life.

And that was a story that he got with permission of the patient.