Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

The real Ben Carson can be seen briefly as an extra walking down the hallway reading a chart and wearing the same blue scrubs as Cuba Gooding Jr..

During the separation surgery, an anesthetic ventilator can be heard running at about 28 breaths per minute. Trouble is, it carries on after the babies are put on bypass, and even when circulatory arrest has been induced, which is wrong. Then, Dr Carson asks his anesthetic team how things are are going, and he is told they are pretty stable - odd question during circulatory arrest. Later on, he is told the pressure is dropping - they have forgotten about the circulatory arrest again. Then there is the fake drama about Carson finishing his part of the surgery four seconds before the hour is up: truth is, nobody knows how long you can keep any baby in cold circulatory arrest before they get brain damage so you keep the arrest time to the minimum but there is nothing magical about one hour. Finally, they defibrillate a heart that is not fibrillating, and then they do it again - clearly the same heart both times.

Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Josh Brolin/Martin O'Malley/Judd Winick/Abe Laboriel Jr. (2015)