Introduction

Rameck, Sam, and George all became doctors.

And we’re reminded of the thin line that separates us—three twenty-nine-year-old doctors (an emergency-room physician, an internist, and a dentist)—from these patients whose lives are filled with danger and desperation.

Will was at our graduation, he was there many times when the three of us gave speeches in the community or received awards, and he began hanging out with us when the three of us returned to Newark as doctors.

how does the narrators present compare with his past?