Riverhead Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br>A remarkable story about the power of friendship.</b><br><br>Chosen by <i>Essence</i> to be among the forty most influential African Americans the three doctors grew up in the streets of Newark facing city lifes temptations pitfalls even jail. But one day these three young men made a pact. They promised each other they would all become doctors and stick it out together through the long difficult journey to attaining that dream. Sampson Davis George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this daythey are all doctors.<p>This is a story about joining forces and beating the odds. A story about changing your life and the lives of those you love most... together.</p></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>As teenagers from a rough part of Newark New Jersey Sampson Davis Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins had nothing special going for them except loving mothers (one of whom was a drug user) and above-average intelligence. Their first stroke of luck was testing into University High one of Newark's three magnet high schools and their second was finding each other. They were busy staying out of trouble (most of the time) and discovering the usual ways to skip class and do as little schoolwork as possible?? when a recruitment presentation on Seton Hall Universi