Mike Stillman is an internal medicine and rehabilitation medicine physician.
In the 1970s, my brother and I were raised as twins. He’s a year older than me, but we wore matching denim outfits, had thick side-parted hair, and worshiped The Beatles. Near identical though we were, only one of us was queer. And America was lying in wait.
When I was a toddler, the American Psychiatric Association de-pathologized homosexuality, but nearly 40 percent of its members fought that decision. Many of …
I recently wrote an email to two Muslim colleagues apologizing for our nation’s political tenor. I shared with them my embarrassment over suggestions that our government bar Muslims from immigrating and monitor those who live here, my concern that a presidential candidate’s support congeals rather than erodes when he brays that “Islam hates us” and suggests that mosques be closed, and my dismay that so few …
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