Dr. Cooke is the doctor at Nickel Academy, where he mostly tends to the wounds students get from being beaten by Spencer. In the aftermath of Elwood’s first beating, Dr. Cooke has to remove pieces of fabric from the backs of his legs, since bits of his pants have become embedded in his skin. When Turner joins Elwood in the infirmary, the boys joke that Dr. Cooke hardly ever does anything other than give people aspirin.