Harvard University

Another incipient reader in a typical Spanish-speaking home might have relegated Somos Médicos to the bottom of the book basket, but not I. The sixteen chunky (and washable) pages chronicled the precocious seven-year-old Ana and her baby brother Luis assisting the doctor as she made her rounds at a hospital where everyone spoke Spanish and most of the patients looked something like me. At the age of four, I decided that I would one day help Doctora take the brown-skinned baby’s temperature, bandage the little light- haired boy’s arm, and hold the older lady’s x-ray films up to the bright…