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This is the story about Alfredo Quiñones, a responsible and dedicated man, who at an early age, knew the real meaning of life and made all his effort to succeed.
Alfredo began working at his father’s gas station, which was the family’s main support until the peso devaluated. It was not a good situation for the Quiñones, but Alfredo kept going to school and working hard: his father encouraged him to study in order to have a better life in the future.
Because he knew there would be better opportunities, Alfredo went to the United States, where he worked in many things; such as picking vegetables, servicing engines, shovelling sulphur; and finally became a foreman.
At the same time, he saved enough money to study science and math, where he met Anna Peterson and became friends.
Alfredo graduated in 1991 and went immediately to the University of California, and at the same time he was working at a clothing store, where he met Anna again and fell in love.
Years later, his mentor Hugo Mora learned that Alfredo was getting good grades at university, so he told him about studying at Harvard Medical School. He considered the fact his grandmother was a curandera and decided to give it a try.
He finally got married to Anna and became a US citizen; then he graduated and decided to specialize in neurosurgery, one of the most demanding fields in medicine. As it that were not enough, he also works on a laboratory, searching for a more chronic brain cancer by studying cancerous tissue.
Dr Q, as called by his colleagues and patients, is now a successful neurosurgeon admired by everyone specially his wife and his three children; for his humility, kindness and for his humanistic way of treating the others.