Jerry Rabinowitz… a name we should all know.
Gay men of Pittsburgh sought out Rabinowitz even when he was a young medical resident at Shadyside Hospital in the late 1970s. Martin Seltman, who was a resident with Rabinowitz, said young men came in with pneumocystis pneumonia and other conditions for which HIV/AIDS was the underlining cause, before the Centers for Disease Control gave the disease a name in 1981.
The full story is here.
He died a hero, just like he lived.
He was shot outside the room in which services were being held, as he rushed out of the room thinking a doctor might be needed.