Title: Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon /
Authors: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.; Rivas, Mim Eichler
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.; Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.; Transients and Migrants; Mexican Americans; Neurosurgery; Neurosurgeons Mexico Biography.; Mexican Americans Mexico Biography.; Migrant labor Mexico Biography.; Neurosurgery United States Autobiography.; Mexican Americans United States Autobiography.; Transients and Migrants United States Autobiography.; Mexico; United States
Abstract: Tells the life story of Alfredo Quiñones-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.
Contents: Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.