Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas.

  • Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
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[2011], ©2011
  • Books

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Becoming Doctor Q

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.

Publication/Creation

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

317 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

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, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Quinones)
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780520271180
  • 0520271181