Becoming Dr. Q
Subtitle: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon
By: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas
Contributors: Rivas, Mim Eichler
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780520271180
Subjects: Autobiography; Neurosurgery; Mexican Americans; Neurosurgeons; Transients and Migrants; Biography
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Starry Nights; title: Faraway; title: The Kaliman Maneuver; title: Lessons from the fields; title: Where the road doesn't lead; title: Green eyes; title: From harvest to Harvard; title: In the land of giants; title: Question the rules, when possible make your own; title: Brainstorm; title: Hopkins; title: Gray matter; title: Seeing the light; title: Finding the steel in your soul.