In November 1765, a respected doctor from a good Venetian family died in the Campo Santi Apostoli, near the Jewish ghetto in Venice.

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Not to mention, of course, the leader of al-Qaeda himself, Osama Bin Laden, the son of a Saudi billionaire, and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-trained doctor from a very well-known and respected middle class family in Cairo.

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By a quick check on PubMed, the (young) doctor I met there has about 60 publications to his name, all in well-respected journals.

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