"… Welsh-Colombian or even Irish-Colombian is maybe odd."

You're missing the point. He's going against himself but there is no internal debate that is shown to the viewers, there is no moment of hesitation, a moment of reflection and thought. He's engaging in an act that could very well end with him strung up on a lamppost, but it's presented as almost mundane and expected.
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Algie was the one black guy in his year, and the other doctor was the one in his.

It's weird how I was fawning over this episode when I finished watching it, then after hurriedly going to avclub and reading this review, ending up being quite appalled by it. The race politics in this episode seem like such a narrative device to bring the staff together that their significance is rendered…