A Conversation with Dr. Brian Goldman
The Casino Shift: Stories of an ER on the Edge
Saturday June 13, 2026 | Doors: 6:30pm | Event: 7 – 8:30pm | Rainbow Theatre in the Whistler Conference Centre
Join local physician and mountain rescue technician, Dr. Renata Lewis, in conversation with emergency room doctor Dr. Brian Goldman (CBC’s White Coat, Black Art), about his book The Casino Shift: Stories of an ER on the Edge, an hour-by-hour account of a healthcare system at a critical inflection point. The bestselling expert’s new book discusses the frustration and burnout of colleagues, and their passion for saving lives in a system that is on the edge.
The conversation will include an audience Q&A, and a book signing.
Armchair Books will be onsite selling copies of The Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the Edge.
Want to be first in the signing line? (And get 10% off your book!) You can pre-order The Casino Shift for pickup at the show.
We are grateful to our sponsors for their generous support: Tourism Whistler, Pan Pacific Mountainside, Armchair Books, and HarperCollins Canada.
For fans of The Pitt, a look at life on the front line in one of Canada’s busiest ERs
The Casino
Shift is an
hour-by-hour account of what a Canadian emergency room is like in these
turbulent times when ER staff must be prepared to see, diagnose, and treat any
condition, often under unrelenting pressure. In addition to the introduction of
the “casino shift” (a shorter night shift), there have been incredible leaps in
technology and the know-how of ER physicians since Dr. Brian Goldman wrote the
bestselling The Night Shift fifteen years ago. But patients’
problems can be exponentially more complex too.
But The
Casino Shift is about much more than one shift at one hospital,
though. It’s also about what goes on in ERs big and small across Canada. From
the incredible challenges of practicing “waiting room medicine,” to discovering
untreated cancer in a twenty-something patient, to diagnosing an extremely rare
case of auto-brewery syndrome, Dr. Goldman shares the stories of frustrated and
burned-out colleagues as well as the passion they have for being there in your
hour of greatest need. With inspiring stories about diagnoses made, puzzles
solved, and lives saved, The Casino Shift is a raw, revealing,
and compelling look at life on the front line.
Brian Goldman, M.D. is not your typical physician. He’s an ER veteran and the voice of CBC’s White Coat, Black Art. For decades, he has been pulling back the curtain on the culture of medicine. In his newest book, The Casino Shift, he goes deeper than ever before, exposing the frustration, the burnout and the raw passion of colleagues who stand on the line between life and death.
Dr. Renata Lewis has over 26 years of experience spanning emergency medicine, precision health, and high-risk field operations as a flight physician and mountain rescue technician – the kind of environments where split second decisions determine if someone lives of dies.
A two-time TEDx speaker and founder of IntelliMed Health, an AI-powered medtech startup tackling Canada’s doctor shortage crisis. Dr. Lewis brings a rare combination of frontline clinical authority and technology vision to the conversation. She has served as medical lead and onscreen doctor for high-risk productions for Netflix, HBO, ITV, Sphere and National Geographic – work that puts her at the intersection of real-world patient care and storytelling that brings it to life.
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