Dr. Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa

I would say that the most difficult times in my life are

the moments where I have landed and got down in my knees where life just puts you down and you feel like there's a fine line

between not wanting to do this again and quitting have been those moments where the surgery didn't go the way that I didn't want it to go.

And I cannot tell you that it's never happened to me.

Unfortunately, when you have done this for more than 5,000 times, it has happened to me.

I think those are the moments that have taken years of my life, Dan.

And those moments, I got to tell you, they're not easy for me.

to get over it takes weeks months years and i always tell people i carry those scars in my heart i've i have never forgotten the patients that have passed through this life where i have wonder did i do something to accelerate that demise

It was amazing.

You're talking about the surgeon's cut.

That is a quote that most people don't realize.

I came to this country in 1987, undocumented, from a very poor family in Mexico.

My parents had no education.

I was undocumented.

I was poor.

I came to this country undocumented and poor to work.

on the fields of California in 1987.

And by 1994, I was matriculating at Harvard Medical School.

You know, I got to tell you, man, I wish I can give you the recipe for many.

It's now, now.