Perhaps because bastards always appreciated other bastards, Alvin actually kind of liked William Rush, the medical disgrace in Temple's eyes.
At the very least, Alvin had never seen William Rush refuse to save someone or deliberately make a patient worse.
In Alvin's eyes, William Rush was far more noble than the doctors in his previous life who used psoriasis commercials to drum up business!
Those were the real scum. They, along with the handful of screwed-up bureaucrats in the medical system, brought shame on the entire profession...
Add to that the ignorant, brainless, greedy patients and their families, and the whole medical industry started to feel like it was in "dire straits"!
Seeing William Rush lounging around, JJ walked over in annoyance, snatched the marijuana from his hand, tossed it on the ground, and ground it underfoot. Then he cursed, "You can't smoke marijuana here, for fuck's sake!
"You can't have this stuff within 500 meters of a school..."
William Rush raised his hands in surrender, unfazed. Then he put an arm around JJ's shoulder and smiled at Alvin. "Those poor folks in Harlem won't mind whether a doctor has a license, right?
"A lot of people have misunderstood me over the years. I've always thought of myself as an angel..."
Alvin shook his head with a laugh and flipped William Rush the bird. He was about to say something when the man's arrival seemed to have tripped some sort of switch. People started converging on the school from the sky and the streets...
Gonzales from McSpicy sent over several truckloads of cheap Medical Kits. The simple Chinese-made hazmat suits and masks were exactly what Harlem needed...
Shang-Chi and Wesley pulled up at a distant intersection. Worried Alvin might stop them from coming along, they waited there for him to