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''Doc/Doctor/Dr. Benway is the name of a character in many of William S. Burroughs' novels, including Naked Lunc''h. Master of disguise and gender ambiguity, playing the role of 'mild mannered doctor, whilst simultaneously maintaining the persona of 'Fadela- (the bitch queen'), leading a cadre of lesbian lovers in the Medina and puppeteering a drug network. More of a maverick surgical artist than a doctor, Benway lacks a conscience and is more interested in his performance (and his next fix) than his patients' well-being. Benway is a perverse, power-seeking, drug-addicted surgical artist manipulator and coordinator of symbolic systems, an expert on all phases of interrogation, brainwashing and control.

Among his other activities, Benway is an illegal drug pusher and manufacturer. At one point, he is reduced to performing subway abortions after his medical license is revoked.

Dr Benway serves as a satiric personification of what Burroughs perceives as the ruthless, parasitic amorality of the healthcare system and the medico-pharmaceutical industry at large. The primary incentive of these technocratic corporate entities is a calculated and thoroughgoing industrialized perversion of the Hippocratic Oath — profit based on a legalized monopoly of the drug trade and mind control.