BEN CARSON

Well before Dr. Benjamin Carson ever set foot at the podium to face the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. on Feb. 7, the renowned neurosurgeon was already a brand on his own in the field of medicine.

Posted on June 3, 2013

by bolsey

Ben carson

In 1987, he became the first surgeon to
successfully separate conjoined twins and
stamped his place in medical history. When his
biography, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson
Story was subsequently published in 1990, the
Christian doctor who rejects the theory
of evolution became a global inspiration.
His story of triumph over crushing poverty in
Detroit to become the director of pediatric
neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Md., at the age of 33 became a well-
known and compelling narrative. And the doctor
has been speaking and inspiring with his
message of personal responsibility, moral
integrity and discipline ever since.
From a passion wrought out of his personal
experience with education, Carson and his wife,
who have three adult sons, also decided to start
the Carson Scholars Fund sixteen years ago. The
Fund, according to Carson, celebrates and
supports the achievements of “intellectual
superstars” in schools across America.
But on Feb. 7, when Carson hit the podium,
America heard his thoughts on something else –
government. The neurosurgeon surprised the
audience, which included President Barack
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with his
thoughts on government policy in areas such as
taxation, education and debt management.
Now, with a growing chorus of social
conservatives clamoring for him to run for
president, everyone wants to know, who is
Benjamin Carson?
“We don’t know much about Ben Carson except
for his personal biography,” said noted Columbia
University political scientist, Fredrick Harris in an
interview with the Christian Post on Tuesday.
Those who know Carson or are familiar with him
will only talk about Benjamin Carson the man,
not his politics.
“I don’t know him more than anybody else. I
know of his good deeds. He is a good man as far
as I know,” said Dr. Franklin W. Knight, Leonard
and Helen R Stulman Professor of history and
director of the Center of Africana Studies at
Johns Hopkins.
“One of the things that we are committed to
here at Spencerville is that we guard Dr. Carson’s
privacy very much,” said Patrick Morrison,
associate pastor at the Spencerville Seventh Day
Adventist Church in Maryland, where Carson is a
member. He would only say that Carson, who
also sits on the board of several for-profit
companies like The Kellogg Company and Costco
Wholesale Corporation, is an active member of
the church. He attends services regularly and
teaches a class as well.
“He is quiet and humble. He is a man of faith and
a man of integrity,” said Morrison of Carson. And
that’s the mantra repeated by almost everyone
who knows him… WHAT WILL PEOPLE REMEMBER YOU FOR? (Food for thought)