Becoming Dr Q Summary

In the story Becoming Dr. Q we are taken through vivid memories of triumph and despair. There is much to be seen in these stories shared by Dr. Q, most speak on cases that boggle the world of medicine as a whole while others are common cases that are yet to be uncured by science. It is in those respects that I feel a recurring theme of this life story is that of the personal effect that every patient has had on Dr. Q. He often speaks about the impact that these lives have had on him both in a negative and a positive way, stories that have been able to perfect him while others might have had a derailing effect. In chapter 10 “Brainstorming” we are introduced to a young man recognized by his initials “JO”. This was a patient that like many others before him I feel Dr. Q took very personally. JO, a young man who was on the rise in education as an Engineering student at UC Berkeley, Dr. Q immediately took a liking to him. JO is the son of migrant farmworker parents and the star child of his family for his hard work and dedication to better his life. Moreover; this was somewhat similar to Dr. Q’s upbringing. It is safe to say that Dr. Q saw a part of himself within that boy, …show more content…
Q. Now having suffered the encumbrance of a lost young patient. Dr. Q used this experience to look for more ways to better medicine, thus; decided to part take in research structured around defeating brain cancer. There was another time earlier in this book that Dr. Q was inspired by a terminally ill patient. A 5 year old girl from South America by the name of Maria with a spinal cord tumor and later a brain tumor. Maria’s story impacted Dr. Q similarly as she was a child that reminded him of his own daughter. The loss of Maria was not in vain as her dire disease sparked new research and lead to the publication for new techniques which ultimately also saved the lives of two new