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Davis, Sampson, et al. WE BEAT THE STREET. E-book, The Penguin group, 2005.

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At age 6 a concrete slab falls on Sampson's foot at the park when him and his brothers friend try to fix a bench. His mom then takes him to the Beth Israel hospital where he was born, he gets to see all the x-rays and gets his first cast.

http://threedoctors.com/sampson-davis/

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Rameck at age 9 gets into a fight after a talk with his principal about behavior problems with a kid named Meatball who has been pushing him around during lunch. It showed to other people that Rameck wasn't gonna get pushed around and he wasn't one to mess with.

"He made a fist and punched Meatball in the stomach." (16)

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George at age 9 has a talk with his teacher Miss Johnson about college, clubs and writers. George then tells his teacher it's hard to fit it when your grades are good and when you are smart. Miss Johnson was a very influencial teacher in his life and played a part in him going into the medical field.

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Sampson at age 8 goes out to play Sponge ball with his friends Noody and Will.  While playing, a drug dealer named The Bomb asked for Sampson's bat to brutally beat up another man who didn't pay his dues, then returns it after like nothing happened.

"The Bomb, a street legend, marched over to the stairwell, cursed loudly at another man huddled there, and then proceeded to beat the man brutally with Sampson's bat." (30)

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After playing Sponge ball, Will, Sampson and Noody go into a store called Jacks to steal Icees since they have no money and it was in the middle of the summer, but get caught and thrown out of the store by the owner just as they were about to leave.

"We gonna jack us some Icees from Jacks." (31)

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Rameck at age 12, goes to his grandma's house a lot, since his mom was always at work as a single parent, they even lived with her for some time this time he asks her for 50 dollars to buy new shoes because his are worn out. This makes him want to make money fast.

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-rameck-r-hunt-39

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George at age 11 goes to a dentist appointment for braces, but has to get teeth pulled first. He is very excited and asks a lot of questions, he sees the x-rays and all the equipment which was very fascinating to him. This started his interest in the medical field.

"The dentist took his time and showed George the X-rays, pointing out where his teeth were crowded and which teeth might need to be removed." (46)

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Sampson at age eleven loses his friend Razor to a car crash after  Razor stole a car and got chased by the police. They later found out Razor had become a drug runner and just turned twelve. It helped him realize how brutal the streets were and how much he wanted to leave it.

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Sampson and George at age 12 who both got the honor roll are forced by their mothers to take tests for a University high school. Where they first meet and start to form the pact and become friends. They both didn't want to go since none of their friends went there.

http://college.cengage.com/masterstudent/series/becoming_a_master_student/12e/resources/profiles/sampson_davis.html

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Rameck in the ninth grade transfers to University high school. Although it was hard for most kids, it came easy to him. After getting a main part in a play George and Sampson congratulate him. Rameck hangs out with his old friends and gets into a fight with another group of kids.

"Everybody squared off with one person, and the brawl began." (69)

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By tenth grade, George, Rameck, and Sampson had formed a strong friendship. However, during the summer Sampson almost sells drugs under a drug dealer to help with the bills around the house and get quick money but realizes it's wrong and gets himself out of it at the last second.

"Sounds good, man, but I don't know. I don't want to get caught up in no drug stuff." (79)

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Rameck, in the eleventh grade is angry because there are no black history classes taught and none of the teachers talk about that subject. So he started a bit of a protest where 50 students refused to leave the lobby of the school. The next day Rameck takes silly string from another student and sprays a teacher he is angry at in the face with it.

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George and Sampson convince Rameck to play baseball with them because it will help with their futures. The next day, after playing baseball, a speaker from Seton Hall University talks to them about a free  summer medical program they offer there that will lead them to becoming doctors. The three get the idea that they can get into a program that's free by studying hard.

"Tuition and basic costs are covered.That's why this program is so selective and worthwhile." (95)

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Rameck's mother tells him to stop hanging around with thugs. While Rameck is with bad friends, one of his friends sells drugs to a crack addict, and tells him not to smoke it near a school. He does so the the group of boys beats him up and Rameck stabs the man in his thigh with a knife he had. He went to the detention center for four days which taught him the lesson of never wanting to go there again.

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During the summer of eleventh grade, Sampson starts hanging out with his old friends since Rameck and George have jobs. He starts to  rob drug dealers to get money. After a couple of successful attempts, the cops show up when they're robbing some kids and arrest everyone except Sampson. He later turns himself in everyone he was with faced jail time, but since he was a minor he was spared and only faced minimal time.

https://www.npr.org/2014/05/15/312719457/the-pact-that-turned-a-juvenile-delinquent-into-a-medical-doctor

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On the last stretch of high school, Sampson, George and Rameck wait for the news of whether they got in the medical program they are all confident that they got in. After interviews, they got they news a couple weeks later and all three of them got in. Everyone was proud of them and they were proud of themselves which made high school graduation an especially joyful day.

"Not only had their sons survived the streets of Newark, but they were heading to college and planning to become doctors, a dream most kids could barely imagine." (126)

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Sampson, Rameck, and George prepare to leave for the Seton Hall preparation program. They stay in the dorms, and on their first day they find it much harder than high school, but one of their professors, Carla treats them as her own. As the program finished they made a promise to always be themselves when treating a patient. They then started to prepare for medical school.

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Most of the kids attending college are white. What started as an argument with Rameck and his cousin turned into Rameck body slamming another student who wasn't listening to him. Rameck gets spared when the other student's mother doesn't press charges against him and gives him a second chance. The trio also creates a organization called Ujima to help their old neighborhood.

"Rameck, no longer able to control his anger, picked up the student, raised him over hid head. Then slammed him to the floor headfirst." (139)

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George and Rameck start making rap videos and form a group called A.R.T. with another student. They want easy money and started getting gigs in New York. They start talking to The Notorious B.I.G. and  Tupac, but after they were killed, they stopped their rap fascination and continued to pursue the medical field.

"When each of them was gunned down in the next few months, it put a damper on the doctors' enthusiasm for rap." (150)

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The trio gets accepted into Access Med which allowed them to take medical school halfway through their senior year of college. They get split up because George wants to pursue dentistry, and goes to a university in New Jersey, but they still hang out every week. Sampson has his doubts about wanting to become a doctor but George and Rameck talk him out of it. George has struggles in Dental school getting paired with a mean doctor and getting robbed. He gains confidence when another student helps him with his tie.

https://www.dental.columbia.edu/profile/george-e-jenkins-dmd

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Sampson and Rameck both face struggles through medical school, Rameck is arrested because of his skin color and charged with possession of a deadly weapon because of a fishing knife, luckily his case was dropped because they lost the evidence. Sampson also faced problems and struggles in school because he failed the medical state board exam but he studied hard and took it again and passed. When he saw Beth Israel Hospital, the same hospital he was born in had a residency program he knew that's where he wanted to go.

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On May 26, 1999 it was graduation, eight years after graduation from high school. They recount all the times of sacrifice, joy, hope and struggle to get to the point they were at. After each one of them graduated they relaxed and prepared to start their next chapter of their lives that was built on the strength they formed together that led them to success.