M.D. American Neurosurgeon Johns Hopkins Hospital Presidential Medal of Freedom

Intruducerea-mi. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., M.D., (born 18 September, 1951) is an American neurosurgeon.
He became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital when he was 33 years old, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. He is a committed Christian, a world-class pediatric neurosurgeon and director of Pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, a renowned scientist, a teacher, an advocate of education, and an award-winning author. Dr Ben Carson has made many contributions to the field of medicine and inspired thousands of Americas students to set their goals high, study and achieve. For his efforts, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Dupaia Benjamin Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan. His mother Sonya had dropped out of school in the third grade, and married when she was only 13. When Carson was only eight, his parents divorced, and Mrs. Carson was left to raise Benjamin and his older brother Curtis on her own. She worked at two, sometimes three, jobs at a time to provide for her boys. Carson and his brother fell behind in school. In fifth grade, Carson was at the bottom of his class. His classmates called him "dummy" and he developed a violent, uncontrollable temper. When Mrs. Carson saw her sons' failing grades, she determined to turn their lives around. She sharply limited their television watching and refused to let them outside to play until they had finished their homework each day. She required them to read two library books a week and to give her written book reports even though, with her own poor education, she could barely read what they had written. Within a few weeks, Carson astonished his classmates by identifying rock samples his teacher had brought to class. He recognized them from one of the books he had read. "It was at that moment that I realized I wasn't stupid," he recalled later. Carson continued to amaze his classmates with his newfound knowledge and within a year he was at the top of his class. The hunger for knowledge had taken hold of him, and he began to read voraciously on all subjects. He determined to become a physician, and he learned to control the violent temper that still threatened his future. After graduating with honors from his high school, he attended Yale University, where he earned a degree in Psychology. From Yale, he went to the Medical School of the University of Michigan, where his interest shifted from psychiatry to neurosurgery. His excellent hand-eye coordination and three-dimensional reasoning skills made him a superior surgeon. After medical school he
became a neurosurgery resident at the world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. At age 32, he became the hospital's Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery.[1] At the age of 33, he became the hospital's Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. In 1987, Carson and a team of more than 70 physicians, surgeons and nurses made medical history with an operation at Johns Hopkins to separate a pair of conjoined twins. The seven month old Rausch twins were joined at the back of the head and shared the superior sagittal sinus, a vein that is the major path for returning blood flow from the brain. Previous operations of this type had failed, killing both twins or saving only one. However, following some 22 hours of extremely complex surgery, the twins were separated and the operation was declared a success. In 1997, Carson went to South Africa where he operated with a 50-member team in the successful separation of 11-month-old Zambian twin boys, Joseph and Luka Banda, joined at the head. The twins did not share any organs but did share intricate blood vessels which flowed into each child's brain. According to Carson, he had performed surgical rehearsals with a computerized, 3-D virtual workbench that allowed him to visualize artificial reconstructions of the twins' brains. The operation lasted 28 hours before reaching a successful conclusion. In 2003, Carson was a member of the surgical team which worked to separate conjoined siblings Ladan and Laleh Bijani. When asked why he had performed such a risky surgery, Dr. Carson said that he had heard them say that they would rather die than stay conjoined.
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Onorurile la sfarsit. Carson has received numerous honors and awards including over 40 honorary doctorate degrees. He was a member of the American Academy of Achievement, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and many other prestigious organizations. He sits on many boards including the Board of Directors of Kellogg Company, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Yale Corporation (the governing body of Yale University), and America's Promise. He was also the president and co-founder of the Carson Scholars Fund, which recognizes young people of all backgrounds for exceptional academic and humanitarian accomplishments. On June 19, 2008, Carson recived the Medal of Freedom. Carson has written three bestselling books, from Zondervan, an international Christian media and publishing company: Gifted Hands, The Big Picture, and Think Big. The first book is an autobiography, and the other two are about his personal philosophies of success that incorporate hard work and a faith in God. Carson's religious faith is Seventhday Adventist.
A television movie about Carson's life, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, premiered on TNT on February 7, 2009, with Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. in the lead role and Kimberly Elise portraying his mother.[3] Aplauze pt mine.

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