In an impromptu listing of all the diseases his children had, I never would have guessed that the next word to come out of my attending’s mouth was “gay.” As an LGBTQ+ medical student with scars on my chest to prove it, this encounter only added to the collection of instances where I felt the
A call for LGBTQ+ inclusion in medicine’s definition of “underrepresented” originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
