Word: doctores
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...Like Humphrey Bogart, Widmark started in movies as a thug and only gradually graduated to hero status. He was a murderously jealous cafe owner in Road House and a racist punk, spilling out vile epithets to noble young black doctor Sidney Poitier, in No Way Out (where he has a wonderfully sniveling final scene). Sam Fuller cast him as the pickpocket in the memorably lurid Pickup on South Street. Sometimes he was the lowlife who found someone even lower, as in Don't Bother to Knock, where he gets tangled with crazed babysitter Marilyn Monroe...
Ahmed says he joined a local gang when he was 12 but left after he was pressured to carry a knife and sell drugs. The son of a childminder from Somalia and a retired academic from Kenya, he plans to become a doctor. Edwards is aiming for a legal career. Why have the two of them turned out so differently from friends who are embroiled in gang life? "Most of them come from poorer backgrounds," says Edwards, who then adds what may be the most important factor. "We're smart," he says, "and we've got our education...
Maybe it's part of growing up as a doctor - to put away childish notions like "pure academics." Or, perhaps, we should be reassured by the peer-review process, which all the papers must undergo: papers get chosen for publication only after impartial, third-party doctors have read and vetted them. The vast majority of the time this is pretty good proof that researchers aren't just company shills. But that mandatory confessional is still required in print, stark like the warning on a pack of cigarettes: "This guy is taking money from a company so take what he says...
...then by Pilate, it was, for reasons of expediency, or money, ignored. Yet the truth did win out. It's a lot like this in surgery now. Our consultants might have conflicts, but sooner or later they will have to come back to us; if you really are a doctor, the truth is where the fun is. That's why I know they'll get around, eventually, to teaching us what we need...
...Wahedi, handed him an Israeli cellphone SIM card and a phone number. "He wanted me to go back to Gaza and collaborate with them for two weeks, and if they liked what I did, I could come to Israel and have my eye operation with the best doctor in Tel Aviv...