Russell Saunders, a doctor at the same hospital as Mark Schuster but 10 years younger, compares their experiences:
I have been lucky to have come after a generation of people like Dr. Schuster and those before him, who bore more of the burden and took more of the risk. Because of them, I have always been able to say without apology that I would not take a job that didn’t offer benefits to my partner. Because of them, I can display pictures of my husband and son on the mantle of my office right along with the families of the other people who work there. Though there is still so much to be done, as Dr. Schuster notes at the end of his piece, we have come so very far. And it is because of people like him.
I can be nothing but grateful.
The Dish 