Reading about this book overwhelmed me with this truth I have always recognised in fragments but never quite as deeply as I am doing now. When I recollect my childhood and years in medicine, I now recognise in explicit cognition, just how much my parents have sacrificed to get me where it is I am. ![]() I personally think this is a book every healthcare individual must read! Period! But others will derive a lot from the book too! It has real moral lessons, values, and inspiration to be taken from it, and I would recomend that anybody who has ANY time at all, should read it. He's quite inspirational because of his less than noble background. The voice is powerful and has a sincere tone to it throughout.īen Carson, being a pediatric neurosurgeon, is perhaps the best in the world, having discovered several medical techniques that are used even today, and maybe his greatest contribution, he perfected the hemispherectomy. If its being rated for writing style, it gets 5 stars. If it's being rated by emotional investment, it gets 5 stars. I, at least, felt his struggles, victories, and failures quite strongly. The whole story of his life is inspiring, and the book causes you to become very emotionaly attached to Ben Carson as a character. Through it all shines a humility, quick wit, and down-to-earth style that make this book one you won’t easily forget. ![]() This inspiring autobiography takes you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world - and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. Gifted Hands is the riveting story of one man’s secret for success, tested against daunting odds and driven by an incredible mindset that dares to take risks. Ben Carson holds twenty honorary doctorates and is the possessor of a long string of honors and awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, induction into the 'Great Blacks in Wax' Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, and an invitation as Keynote Speaker at the 1997 President’s National Prayer Breakfast. and finally, at age 33, the directorship of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. the University of Michigan Medical School. Trust in God, a relentless belief in his own capabilities, and sheer determination catapulted Ben from failing grades to the top of his class - and beyond to a Yale scholarship. But Sonya Carson convinced her son that he could make something of his life, even though everything around him said otherwise. And a pathological temper threatened to put him in jail. Raised in inner-city Detroit by a mother with a third grade education, Ben lacked motivation. ![]() He’s been beating the odds since he was a child. But such breakthroughs aren’t unusual for Ben Carson. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as hemispherectomy, giving children without hope a second chance at life through a daring operation in which he literally removed one half of their brain. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the planning and twenty-two hours in the execution, involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head.
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