Jacob Szymanski

It helps if you don't sleep.

I mean, did the casino shifts help, you know, these six-hour shifts instead?

There's no going back.

What a bonkers lifestyle.

Not to mention an extremely stressful, high pressure job.

Yeah.

And then on top of that, you work in these night shifts, these casino shifts.

And you detail all of that in the book, which is called The Casino Shift.

Tell us about the book.

Now, this book is not about the healthcare system as a whole.

It's very specifically focused on emergency rooms.

So I think it's important that we all get on the same page and clarify specifically what is the emergency room and where do they fit in within the healthcare system?

That's poetic.

Family doctors.

It's a bleak image that you're painting and that's kind of throughout the book, but you do show glimmers of hope.

Like you mentioned the emergency room in Perth, like you can make things work.

There are alternative ways of doing things.

And you go through across the country in quite a few different places and you talk to all sorts of people that I presume you've met partly through your podcast.

But throughout the book, it sort of jumps in between two types of segments, I suppose you could call them, where you tell your own stories and

of your work in the ER with patients and their backgrounds and the sorts of issues they were dealing to really give you a picture of what the day-to-day, the hour-to-minute is like working in an emergency room.