As a primary care and addiction medicine physician, I have been dismayed by the number of patients I’ve treated over the past few weeks who’ve been infected with the vaccine-preventable monkeypox virus. Most have been in considerable pain and required strong analgesics, with some unable to even sit because of their skin lesions. Yet for many, the most agonizing and scarring aspect of their infection is not their physical symptoms, but the complete removal of their humanity by the medical response to monkeypox.