Kai Ryssdal

And I think it made it much more realistic, much more immersive.

We really wanted to focus on the emergency department and not so much on the doctors, of course, but only in their work environment because that's where we see them.

Speaking of doctors, you have a lot of them.

I do.

On set, on staff?

Well, we have one on set every day, but we rotate them out.

So we have four or five that rotate out because they're all working.

So they have to do the real medicine when they're not doing our fake medicine.

And then this year we'll have three doctors in the writer's room.

And that makes it so authentic is because we're working with real doctors all the time.

And we are also working with experts and other doctors, especially this time of year.

We're just starting season three.

We talk to a lot of experts in the medical field about anything that's coming up.

Are you writing it or shooting it?

We're done shooting.

And today we have our first writers meeting today for season three.

Do you still write?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's the best part of the whole job.

I read somewhere that you sleep like 8 at night to 2 in the morning and then you get up right in the middle of the night.