much time with a patient that you would put yourself at risk for getting sick. so i think it's actually going to change a lot of the world of medicine, let alone my approach as well. >> emma, the faces of medical care are changing. that is a truth that you capture in your book. what does that mean for the field as a whole? >> i think that's a critical issue in the context of a pandemic that disproportionately hit communities of color. and i'm so glad you raised that. i remember in the early weeks of the pandemic in new york, last spring there was a report from the city that showed black new york city residents were dying at twice the rate of white new york city residents. and so were hispanic city residents. there was also an overrepresentation of hospitalizations and case rates in those communities. and i think that sharpens the call to boost diversity in medicine. 5% of american doctors are black. 5.8% are hispanic. we have access to more and more research that shows that