AMRIT SINGH, a Sikh guy with a full beard and turban, is frequently singled out for racial profiling. Nonetheless, when Amrit realizes that his ambitions to become Chief of Surgery at a leading transplant facility are being derailed by his appearance, he breaks with a family custom he's followed his entire life and cuts his hair short. Making this decision while keeping it hidden from his fiancée and family in Toronto is merely the beginning of a long sequence of concessions Amrit will have to make as he battles with hospital politics and health-care inequalities in the future. When Amrit's concessions result in the death of a patient, he is forced to reconsider the importance of the religious traditions that he had previously rejected.
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AMRIT SINGH, a Sikh guy with a full beard and turban, is frequently singled out for racial profiling. Nonetheless, when Amrit realizes that his ambitions to become Chief of Surgery at a leading transplant facility are being derailed by his appearance, he breaks with a family custom he's followed his entire life and cuts his hair short. Making this decision while keeping it hidden from his fiancée and family in Toronto is merely the beginning of a long sequence of concessions Amrit will have to make as he battles with hospital politics and health-care inequalities in the future. When Amrit's concessions result in the death of a patient, he is forced to reconsider the importance of the religious traditions that he had previously rejected.
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