From migrant worker to neurosurgeon

Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa grew up in an impoverished Mexican village and illegally hopped the fence into California. A teaching assistant once told him, "You can't be from Mexico. You're too smart to be from Mexico." FULL STORY

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