Brian Williams loves his job, that is clear. His job is putting people back together, as a trauma surgeon. It is not always possible, if people have been badly injured by vehicles, or--more often--by gunshots.
Dr. Williams has taken his skills outside the hospital, to make the case for programs and laws that will reduce the flow of people who need his services. He tells the story in his book The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Brian Williams visits the JX to talk about what it will take to give him more dull workdays as a surgeon.