You can say that again! A good friend of mine is a physician, and we met when he was in the final couple years of his practical training in Detroit hospitals.

Once, at a bar over a beer, I asked him if he knew what vaccine protocols are recommended for sexually active gay men, or if he knew how they differed from vaccine protocols for the general population or for men in general.

He did not know.

Even though the CDC has issued very particular recommendations, he had never encountered those recommendations in his training. Now, to be fair he's not a primary care physician, and maybe if he had been training for that career field, things would have been a little different.

But I don't know. As he told me himself, he can rattle off all sorts of standard protocols outside his specialty. He was as baffled as I that routine health care for gay men had never been part of his training.

Then he took it upon himself to educate himself. He looked up the information and memorized it.

Because a queer person educated him.