Three doctors discuss special ‘Pact’ March 3

1:57 p.m., Feb. 26, 2004--Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt—known to readers of their autographical book, “The Pact,” as the three doctors—will discuss their odyssey from growing up on the streets of Newark, N.J., to graduating from medical school and becoming respected members of the medical community, at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 3, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center. Doors open at 7 a.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

In “The Pact,” Davis, Jenkins and Hunt relate what it was like to live in broken homes and survive on the mean streets of a high-crime area. Davis and Hunt even served time in juvenile detention centers before a visit to their high school by a recruiter from a college aimed at preparing minority students for medical school inspired the three to make a pact to become doctors. They also pledged to support each other along the way.

Through alternating chapters, the three take turns describing how they enrolled in Seton Hall University’s pre-med program together. Not only did they survive the rigors of medical and dental school, they also found time for a brief detour into performing rap music at local clubs.

Today, all three are practicing medical professionals in the Garden State. Hunt works as a physician at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, while Jenkins is a dentist at New Jersey’s University of Medicine and Dentistry. Davis serves as an emergency medicine physician at Newark’s Beth Israel Medical Center.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is cosponsored by the Center for Black Culture and the Cultural Programming Advisory Board.

For more information, call 831-2991.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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