In the first session, Rishi Goyal speaks about his professional life in the emergency room during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also describes his personal life and how his family and community life were affected. In the second session, Goyal discusses the vaccine and his own vaccination process, and how relationships with his wife and friends supported him during the pandemic
Rishi Goyal is an emergency medicine physician in New York City. He is an assoicate professor of emergency medicine and runs the Medical Humanities major and program at Columbia University. Goyal went to medical school at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Following medical school, Goyal did a PhD in English literature. He was born in Brooklyn and has lived in New York City for most of his life
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Interviewed by Ryan Hagen on July 14, 2020 and February 24, 2021
Note (Provenance)
Rishi Goyal, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023