doctor sam bromfield is an oncologist at ucsf. he and peter had known each other for years.olleagues and friends, but at that moment, something changed. it was just like a truck hit me and i didn't know what happened. and time stood still. but back home, life was complicated. thanks so much and as the world grappled with covid, peter's life sexuality and vision of the future were completely upended. you think about covid as being scary. but to me, moving on to this brave new world was just as scary and uncertain as covid. so i was living these two different, uncertain lives. peter was also dealing with a barrage of online hate for speaking out about the virus, because it wasn't only hate about being a medical professional, it was hate about things, about me, about my heritage, about being asian, about going back to china. doctor bob wachter is the chief of medicine at ucsf. i think his feeling was, this is hard doing this, but i got to do it. it's i'm making a contribution. a lot of people are depending on me for information about what's going on and what, how they should li