1/8/2023 0 Comments Broken mods hospital 16![]() I liked many of these ‘mummies boys’ and ‘daddy’s girls’ high-flyer students, but I certainly did not and do not venerate them. And the guys who did well at university were normally the rich kids who stayed at home and were swots. The bottom line is doctors are clever but not as clever as we think we are. Secondly, doctors have done well academically, but academic ability is not the same as intelligence, wholly and totally confounded by wealth, opportunity, schooling and tutoring. Firstly, let’s dispel the myth that doctors are made of a higher moral fibre than the rest of humanity, they aren’t. I was one of hundreds of medical students, many of whom are now consultants (indeed, some are my best friends). I think about him occasionally on a Friday night as I listen to 80s music and drink lager, it helps me push against my vanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() I lost track of him, last I heard he was working as a labourer. We met occasionally, an oddity, a mod and a punk, chatting and laughing. At 16 I donned a fishtail Parker, he put on a sleeveless ‘UK Subs’ T-Shirt, tattooed a cross between his eyebrows and dropped out of school. We sat in some of the same classes, burnt custard in home economics, slumped sleeping in RE and slipped like cartoon characters on the muddy park because neither of us could afford football boots in PE.
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