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Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
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Neurosurgeons -- Mexico -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Mexico -- Biography.
Migrant labor -- Mexico -- Biography.
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Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ; with Mim Eichler Rivas.
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Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Neurosurgeons -- Mexico -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Mexico -- Biography.
Migrant labor -- Mexico -- Biography.
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9780520271180 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520271181 (cloth : alk. paper)
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317 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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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.
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
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B Quinones Qu
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