205: The Long Shadow: What if you processed the remains?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
“The surrealism of the experience just it was hard to fathom…here we were in a clothing store being asked to do these sort of impossible thing.”
Producers: Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: In the aftermath of September 11th, 2001 a cardiologist volunteers to help process the body parts from those who lost their lives in a temporary morgue inside a Brooks Brothers department store.
Today’s episode featured Sandeep Jauhar. Sandeep has written three books. His first book, "Intern: A Doctor's Initiation," "Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician," and his latest book, "Heart: A History," tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. A practicing cardiologist, Jauhar is currently a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He has appeared frequently on National Public Radio, CNN, and MSNBC to discuss issues related to medicine, and his essays have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Slate. To learn more about him and his work, visit his website at http://sandeepjauhar.com or follow him on Twitter: @sjauhar.
Twenty Years after the attacks of September 11th changed the world as we knew it, this month the This Is Actually Happening podcast dives deep into the stories of four survivors whose jobs brought them face to face with the unthinkable. For those called to manage an impossible tragedy up close, the events of September 11th represented a uniquely horrifying challenge. Among the harrowing details of that day, in the special series, we explore the long shadows of trauma and resilience that continue to inform the looming uncertainties that remain with us today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:07.6 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:16.0 | For the past month, we've been diving deep into the stories of four survivors of the tragedies of September 11th, 2001, |
| 0:22.9 | whose jobs brought them face-to-face with the unthinkable. |
| 0:26.1 | In a series we've been calling the Long Shadow. |
| 0:29.1 | Today we present the fourth and final story in the Long Shadow series, featuring Sandeep Jihar, |
| 0:34.4 | a cardiologist who volunteered at a temporary morgue to help process the remains. |
| 0:39.0 | As added bonus content for the series, we're releasing an interview between me and Dan Tabersky. |
| 0:43.9 | Dan is the host of the podcast, Missing Richard Simmons, running from cops, and most recently, |
| 0:49.1 | The Line. His new show is called 9-12, and the series is about what happened after 9-11. |
| 0:54.5 | How 9-11 the day became 9-11 the idea, and how that idea has shaped the world, |
| 0:59.6 | our culture, and ourselves for the past 20 years. |
| 1:02.4 | Dan and I had a great conversation about our two very different but complementary series about 9-11. |
| 1:07.9 | What that day meant to both of us, what the experience means now 20 years later, |
| 1:12.1 | and what we've learned from creating a respective series on the subject. |
| 1:15.9 | If you're a Wondry Plus subscriber, you can check out that bonus interview today, |
| 1:19.9 | as well as other bonus content for the series. |
| 1:22.4 | However, we're also making that interview available on the free public feed for everyone |
| 1:26.5 | this coming Wednesday. So if you have Wondry Plus, check it out now. |
| 1:30.1 | If not, look for that interview coming up in a couple days. |
| 1:33.1 | After wrapping up the long shadow series today, we will resume with our regular weekly, |
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