Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm workier to brain surgeon

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Tells the life story of Alfredo Qui?ones-Hinojosa from impoverished childhood in a tiny village in Mexico to illegal immigrant, American citizen, student at the University of California, on to Harvard Medical School, and becoming an internationally renowned neurosurgeon.

Author(s): Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo; Rivas, Mim Eichler
Series: Becoming Dr. Q
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2012

Language: English
Pages: 317
City: Berkeley, Mexico., United States.
Tags: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo;Neurosurgeons -- Mexico -- Biography;Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography;Mexican Americans -- Mexico -- Biography;Migrant labor -- Mexico -- Biography;Mexican Americans;Migrant labor;Neurosurgeons;Mexico;United States

Starry nights --
Faraway --
The Kaliman maneuver --
Lessons from the fields --
Courting destiny --
Green eyes --
From harvest to Harvard --
In the land of giants --
Question the rules and when possible make your own --
Brainstorm --
Hopkins --
Gray matter --
Seeing the light --
Finding the steel in your soul.