Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.,, had a childhood dream of becoming a physician. Growing up in a single-parent home and being challenged by dire poverty, poor grades, a horrible temper, and a low self-esteem appeared to preclude the realization of that dream, until his mother, with only a third-grade education, challenged her sons to strive for excellence.
Young Ben persevered, and today is a emeritus professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery and pediatrics at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, where he directed pediatric neurosurgery at the John Hopkins Children’s Center for 39 years.
He was the inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in his name in May 2008 and is now the Emeritus Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. and Dr. Evelyn Spiro, R.N. Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, having retired on June 30, 2013.
Some career highlights include the first and only successful separation of craniopagus (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head in 1987 and the first completely successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa.
Dr. Carson holds more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and has received literally hundreds of awards and citations. He was appointed in 2004 by President George W. Bush to serve on the President’s Council on Bioethics. He is a highly-regarded motivational speaker who has spoken twice during the President’s National Prayer Breakfast.
Dr. Carson has written approximately six books, the last book, “One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future,” May 2014.
Dr. Carson has been married for more than 38 years to his wife, Candy, and is the father of three sons.
This small introduction of Dr. Carson is to show, how great a man of loyalty and caring for his family’s future and the future of this country of ours. I am part of a large group of his supporters throughout the USA. We are asking everyone to look up this man’s background and how he qualifies to be our next president of the United States of America.
This is the person who has the ability to bring this country to where it belongs. Just go on your computer to BenRunBen.org and you will find this very interesting. Please, look him up. If you are interested in being a part of this drive for Dr. Carson, you can also write to me at giroux.richard@rocketmail.com.
Richard Giroux, Biddeford
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