Abram Hawke became a Doctor for many reasons, most of them bad. The son of wealthy Caprican industrialists, Abram was born into a life where the best things in life were not only possible, but expected. He wanted the respect of being in the medical elite, a circle his father couldn't buy him into, and with it he wanted the power, money, and women. It would also be nice to help people every now and again, but the altruistic motivations were few and far between.
Abram quickly found himself on his chosen path. Graduating near the top of his class in Medical school, he was admitted into the intern program at Delphi General, and quickly made a name for himself as a highly competent surgeon, taking advantage of the failings in his superiors to further his own name. Before long, it seemed he had everything he could have wanted, a beautiful wife (the daughter of one of the Hospital's Board of Directors) a nice condo in the city, and a huge paycheck. It seemed only a matter of time before he would be named Chief of Surgery, even over the objections of his Chief of Medicine, whom he had loathed for years.
It all might have occured as planned except for Janelle, the beautiful young wife of the CoM. Mysterious, Beautiful, and twenty years her husband's junior, Janelle had gone from Fashion Model to uptown Socialite almost overnight. Happy with her husband's money but bored with him in bed, Janelle had sought Ethan out early on, and before long the two were sleeping together. Long story short, they were discovered. Janelle went back to her husband, properly chastened. Abram lost his job, most of his money in the divorce, and soon found himself all but unhirable, due to a small moment of weakness where he had punched his former Boss when the older man had decided to gloat.
Faced with unemployment but unwilling to live the rest of his life on his parents sufferance, Abram took the last path open to him… the Military. Checkered though his personal record was, his track record as a surgeon had the military leap to enlist him, and after doing his time in Basic and OCS, he found himself an officer of the Fleet, his skills sufficient for him to be deployed on the newest Battlestar. It isn't the life he'd dreamed of… but it was a life of his own, and after everything else had been stripped away, it left him his pride. And that wasn't nothing.
