Sepúlveda, Felix; Sepúlveda, Carl (father/son). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-19T12:30:00
Interview Description
Felix Sepúlveda (77) is interviewed by his son, Carl Sepúlveda about coming to the United States from Perú to do his medical residency in Florida.
1:25 Felix landed in Miami as a medical student working as a intern in the emergency room
12:16 moving to Houston from Florida; loved Florida because it was similar to Perú; finished residency in pediatrics
19:34 Felix's mother encouraged him to stay in the U.S.; Felix's relationship with his mother
25:34 spending summers in Lima; Felix moving from one part of Peru to another
32:13 idol was Ernest Hemingway; what made Felix become a doctor?
Dates
- Creation: 2009-11-19T12:30:00
Topical
- Abuela
- Achievements and Awards
- Changes In Education
- Children
- Coming Of Age
- Community History
- Dr. Denton Cooley
- Ernest Hemingway
- Extended Family
- First Job
- Galveston, TX
- Graduation
- Grandparents
- Houston, TX
- Immigration Stories
- Internship
- Job Satisfaction
- Lima, Peru
- Marriage
- Miami, Florida
- Parents
- Schools
- Siblings
- Students
- Tarma, Peru
- Teachers
- Town Life
- Tía
- Workday Life
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- anesthesia
- cohorts (groups of friends)
- college
- doctor
- emergency room
- family characters
- family heroes
- family trips and excursions
- first impression of America
- graduate school
- influential people
- injuries
- internal medicine
- medical school
- meeting Gregory Hemingway
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- mother
- moving from Tarma, Peru to Lima, Peru
- pediatrics
- personal experiences
- physician
- residency
- residents
- school day memories
- schoolyard games
- scientific beliefs and practices
- social beliefs and practices
- spouse
- studying
- summers in Peru
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu