Jonathan Ripp relays the impact of COVID on his life and work as a physician in the Mount Sinai Health System. Some topics addressed include the arrival of the pandemic, critiques of healthcare bureaucracies, and impacts of the pandemic on frontline workers. He also briefly speaks about the Black Lives Matter protests. In the second session, Ripp expands on the impact of COVID on his work as a doct or and goes into detail about his family's life during the pandemic and new routines
Physicians; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Hospitals--Emergency services--United States; Ripp, Jonathan A; Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
58 pages
Note (Biographical)
Born and raised in New York, Jonathan Ripp is an internal medicine doctor. He went to college and medical school in Connecticut and did his medical training at Mount Sinai
Note
Interviewed by Liza Zapol on June 3 and October 26, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Jonathan Ripp, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023