Ben Carson

For this weeks blog post I will be talking about Ben Carson. There is a great documentary detailing his life on Netflix called “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story”.  Ben Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan to a mother who would 2-3 jobs, making them very poor.  He graduated from Yale University, where he excelled in psychology, as well as receiving his M.D. (Doctor of Medicine Degree) from the University of Michigan. He then continued on to complete his residency in neurosurgery at John Hopkins University. A residency is a medical training program you take after graduating college held by an experienced preceptor. The main highlight of his surgical career happened in 1987. He had organized a group of 70 people separate twins conjoined at the head. The group had one hour to operate on the cranium after stopping performing a hypothermic arrest cools the body and stops blood circulation). In total the operation took over 28 hours!