Nikki Kasal

Feb 4, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Hussain Lalani |Justin Lowenthal |Mark Leeds |Nikki Kasal

In 2021, I spent the year before starting medical school calling and counseling the patients of a busy urban emergency department on the results of their sexually transmitted infection (STI) tests. “What exactly is gonorrhea?” some would ask. “Is there a cure?”“No one ever taught me about this,” one older gentleman lamented when we discussed using condoms to prevent the transmission of infection. Stories like his reflect our society’s hesitancy to discuss sex and sexual health.