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Where did all the medical school assholes go?

Jim Vause

Wednesday 5 June 2019, 10:31 AM

Steve Jobs, Apple creator who features in John Walker’s documentary Assholes: A Theory

Like Silicon Valley, medical schools were fertile ground for bullies due to the exalted status of the “heroes”, writes Jim Vause

“Do good doctors mellow with age or does the Medical Council know otherwise?” To say that I have never bought an Apple because to do so would be

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References

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[2] http://www.julesolder.com/about_us/

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