A Journey of Medical Discovery and Personal Identity. Medicine transcends all barriers it knows no frontiers, it respects all credos and, most importantly, it treats all human beings as equals. Despite the tremendous socio-economic inequalities that I encountered and experienced in each one of the four countries where Ive lived and practised medicine Peru, United States, Spain and the UK, Ive always been proud to find that the Hippocratic Oath is unwavering and equally applied to all citizens. My identity never came from having a certain nationality, speaking a specific language or even from my family genealogy. It came and still