Dr. Calvin Sun: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I First Became A Doctor

An Interview With Jake Frankel

Don’t travel looking for “something” you don’t have; rather travel is to change up your environment to better appreciate that you actually already have everything you need.

As part of my series about healthcare leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Calvin Sun.

Dr. Calvin D. Sun is based in New York City and worked as an Emergency Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at emergency rooms all over the city during the COVID-19 pandemic. He recounts the early months of Covid-19 in his upcoming book, The Monsoon Diaries: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing from the ER Frontlines to the Far Reaches of the World. Dr. Sun has been a frequent guest on national and international new programs to help inform others of the pandemic situation in New York City. He brings medical knowledge and empathy to the story of COVID-19 and is no stranger to grief himself, having lost his father when he was just a teenager, and his grandfather to COVID-19. Over the past twelve years, Dr. Sun has traveled to over 200 countries and territories, while also completing medical school and going…