Brian Goldman

Goldman at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018

Brian Goldman, born 1956, is a Canadian emergency physician, author, public speaker and radio personality.

Physician

He practices in the Schwartz Reisman Emergency Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Goldman has been a regular medical columnist on CBC Radio One since 1999.

Broadcasting

He also hosts an award-winning current affairs radio series, White Coat, Black Art, on CBC Radio One about the culture of modern medicine and various aspects of the Canadian health care system and is the house Doctor for the Afternoon Edition on CBC Radio One in Saskatchewan.

Education

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto (1980).[1]

Author

In 2010, his first book, The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the ER, was published by Harper Collins Canada. [2] The Night Shift is a book on his experiences working the night shift as an emergency physician. His second book, The Secret Language of Doctors [3] is about slang or argot terms used by doctors, nurses and other health professionals to talk about patients, unpleasant clinical situations as well as colleagues. [4]

His third book is The Power of Kindness, 2018, at HarperCollins Canada.

References

  1. ↑ "Doctor Profile". College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
  2. ↑ "The Night Shift - Real Life in the Heart of the ER", Brian Goldman, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., 2010, ISBN 978-1-55468-392-5
  3. ↑ "The Secret Language of Doctors - Cracking the Code of Hospital Slang", Brian Goldman, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., 2014, ISBN 978-1-44341-601-6
  4. ↑ The Toronto Star, "Dr. Brian Goldman shares physician slang in new book", Richard Ouzounian, Life, Tues., April 22, 2014
  • CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art
  • TED Talk: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
  • 131: Goldman is probably Canada's best known broadcast journalist on health issues, and a recognized authority in his own right on emergency medicine and pain management. Conference at Hull, QC, 2000/08/14 on APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES TO OPERATE NEW PAY AND SPECIALTY SERVICES FOR DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION – DEMANDES DE LICENCES VISANT LA DISTRIBUTION NUMÉRIQUE DE NOUVEAUX SERVICES DE TÉLÉVISION SPÉCIALISÉE ET PAYANTE, continuing: Speech of Goldman (no. 132ff.)
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