PJ Vogt

Can you say your name and what you do?

Can you tell me about your work at that homeless clinic?

Like, where's the clinic?

What's it like?

What's your work like?

I have a bunch of questions in a bunch of different directions.

One is, your work puts you...

I think a lot of people who live in New York City, the weird thing about New York, maybe more than other places in America, is that it's both incredibly class-stratified.

You have very elite, very wealthy people, and you have working people, and you have very poor people.

But the people in those worlds don't always really run into each other, besides maybe on the subway or literally on the street.

You have this unusual life where you're moving between highly elite worlds, like the New York Times, and then working with populations that are so far removed from it.

And I just wonder, the thing that I think so many people block out in their minds in order to just live in a city, you've chosen to give yourself a life where you can't.

I'm just wondering what that's like.

Right.

You get this very, very intimate view into lives that are very different from your own.

It completely makes sense.

How did you end up working at the homeless clinic?

What does it look like day to day to be a doctor at Rikers?

I've been once, actually.

Oh, have you?