Writer Frank Huyer is also an ER physician and reads a piece from his most recent book White Hot Light: Twenty Five Years in Emergency Medicine. It is a meditation on loneliness and a candid look both the coldness and kindness of humanity, not just in others but also within ourselves. This is an interview he did with Pen America where he discusses the role of censorship in medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic that he touches on at the end of our conversation.