Guest Author in
Dr Brian Goldman
Brian Goldman, MD, is a highly regarded emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto as well as the host of CBC radio’s award-winning show White Coat, Black Art, where he takes listeners behind the scenes of hospitals and doctor’s offices.
In his latest book, The Power of Kindness, Dr Goldman goes in search of his own lost compassion. As a veteran emergency room physician, Goldman had always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He set out to explore what kindness truly looks like—in himself and in others. As part of his search, a top neuroscientist performs an MRI scan of his brain to see if he is hard-wired for empathy. A researcher at Western University in Ontario tests his personality and makes a startling discovery. Goldman then circles the planet in search of the most empathic people alive, to hear their stories and learn their secrets. Powerful and engaging, The Power of Kindness takes us far from the theatre of medicine and into the world at large, and investigates why kindness is so vital to our existence.
Goldman is also the author of the bestselling book The Night Shift: Real Life in the ER, and The Secret Language of Doctors, which takes a biting look at medical slang. He has worked as a health reporter for CBC’s The National, for CBC-TV’s The Health Show, and served as senior production executive during the launch year of Discovery Health Channel, Canada’s only 24-hour channel devoted to health programming.