Gladwell recalls Chicago ER doctor counting friends killed on his phone

What was said

"And I ask him, "So, how many people do you know from growing up who've been killed?" And he says, "You mean that are in my phone?""

Malcolm Gladwell recalls interviewing a University of Chicago Hospital emergency physician who grew up on the city’s South Side. Gladwell says that when he asked how many people the doctor knew who had been killed, the doctor framed it as contacts “in my phone” and estimated 15, including his brother.