Miami
Marco Montalvo, M.D, Head of the Neurology Department at St. Mateo Hospital
Present
Why did I become a doctor, you ask?
The answer was simple.
Money.
Nothing had ever come easy to me. f*****g nothing. I was the fourth child in a family of immigrants trying to make it in the big United States. On top of that, my chances to succeed were drowned when my Portuguese family decided to establish itself in Miami. The land of the Cubans in exile. The place where every single latino decided to set roots for two simple reasons. Everyone spoke Spanish here and the weather was nice. Your chances to make it big when everyone was also trying to go big were dust to none. Cuban kids from Little Havana would do f*****g anything to get out of there. Venezuelans in the Doral neighborhood pumped mo
