"Because of the outbreak in Florida, and the number of Pride events being held across the state in coming weeks, it's important that gay and bisexual men who live in Florida get vaccinated, and those traveling to Florida talk to their healthcare provider about getting a MenACWY vaccine," said José Romero, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The CDC also recommended that gay and bisexual men traveling to Florida should ask their health care provider about getting the vaccine. The CDC said in a statement that there have been at least 24 cases and seven deaths among gay and bisexual men caused by the bacteria in Florida recently. Health officials on Wednesday recommended that men in Florida who have sex with other men get a meningococcal vaccine following what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called "one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. It's infuriating and it feels like a bait and switch. Instead, you wait three weeks for an appointment only to learn that you're seeing some nurse who thinks he/she knows as much as the actual doctor. You should have a right to know they're pushing you off on some assistant. If they can't see you, they should tell you. I get that doctors are busy, but fuck, enough of this already. Imagine being a PA or NP, thinking you know as much as the licensed, trained physician but making that one vital, critical mistake. I used to work in healthcare and I know that a lot of medical office people eventually think they know all kinds of things about medicine. But he is NOT a urologist or surgeon and that's who we were there to see. When I asked why they didn't tell us that, I got the usual "Oh, Dan is our NURSE PRACTITIONER, he's able to talk to you." REALLY? He was a really nice guy, seemed knowledgeable enough, even kind of cute. I was told that the Doctor is out on Fridays. But we had to see the nurse practitioner. We were to be going over the imaging today and discussing next steps, (a biopsy). My 85-year-old father had to see a specialist due to a nodule they have detected on his prostate.