And I think that was one of the most fascinating parts of all of this for the doctors too, is that the young doctors were learning in real time alongside their bosses and alongside hospital leaders. And I remember witnessing that sort of firsthand in New York City as the city was in a state of kind of paralysis and shock as the pandemic was first coming toward us, and people were wondering should offices shut down, should schools shut down? Should people be wearing masks? There was not a lot of information and we were all learning in real time. GOLDBERG: Yeah, well, it was definitely a process I think in terms of really coming to grips with the scale of the crisis that we were facing. When did the doctors in general, if not sort of the Gen Y or Gen Z doctors, begin to recognize that what they were facing was at the level of a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in terms of actual death count?
And that’s what I want to ask you about to start. And of course, those of us who were reading COVID coverage over the last two years, or year and a half, read your account of what was transpiring, which was textured and profound and deeply spoke to the horrors and the anxieties and the trepidation that we felt as a country. GOLDBERG: Thank you so much for having me on. I’m delighted to welcome to our broadcast today Emma Goldberg, she’s a New York Times correspondent who was on the COVID-19 medic beat and author of the new book “Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic.” Welcome, Emma. HEFFNER: I’m Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind.
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