who is Bengamin Carson? and what did he do?

Question

tell about him in u r own words
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Answer 1

Im not an expert..but i do know he was born into a poor family,whos mother didnt want him to use poverty as an excuse for not learning.By Fifth Grade he had started on his way to becoming a Top Scholar.He went to Yale,and graduated From the University of Michigan Medical school. with Top Honors.He bacame the youngest ever Pediatric Neuro-Surgeon in the United States at 33,and developed techniques that today save hundreds of Childrens Lives.
I know he has written three books, andovercame Poverty,Racism and Dicrimination to Become Director of Pediatric NeuroSurgery at John Hopkins University.
Oh,did i mention he is African American?

And some of us dont cut and paste...we actually know this..

Answer 2

Benjamin Carson was known as a young boy as the Dummy of his class. He is now Dr. Benjamin Carson, Director of the Division of Pediatric Newsorurgery at Johns Hopkins since 1984. He is a professor Neursorurgery, Plastic Surger,Oncology and Pediatrics.

Answer 3

He is a pediatric brain surgeon.
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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 Benjamin 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.

Benjamin and his brother fell farther and farther 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 Benjamin's failing grades, she determined to turn her sons' lives around. She sharply limited the boys' 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 reports on their reading 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.


In 1987, Carson made medical history with an operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins. The Binder twins were born joined at the back of the head. Operations to separate twins joined in this way had always failed, resulting in the death of one or both of the infants. Carson agreed to undertake the operation. A 70-member surgical team, led by Dr. Carson, worked for 22 hours. At the end, the twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently.

Carson's other surgical innovations have included the first intra-uterine procedure to relieve pressure on the brain of a hydrocephalic fetal twin, and a hemispherectomy, in which an infant suffering from uncontrollable seizures has half of its brain removed. This stops the seizures, and the remaining half of the brain actually compensates for the missing hemisphere.

In 1997, Dr. Carson took a leave of absence from his surgical duties to address groups of young people around the country. Carson's books include Gifted Hands and Think Big.

Answer 4

i have no clue but you can see the site