My mother has always pushed me to take challenges with a pinch of salt and wade through them with a smile like she has always done. I see Sonya as a reminder of my own mother. This is the story of a ghetto boy hailing from the streets of Detroit, who climbs monumental rungs of obstacles and challenges (so much 'nigger' statements and ridicule included) to finally become a renowned paediatric neurosurgeon in the John Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland. Reading about this book overwhelmed me with this truth I have always recognised in fragments but never quite as deeply as I am doing now. When I recollect my childhood and years in medicine, I now recognise in explicit cognition, just how much my parents have sacrificed to get me where it is I am. This is the story of a ghetto boy hailing from the streets of Detroit, wh I personally think this is a book every healthcare individual must read! Period! But others will derive a lot from the book too! I personally think this is a book every healthcare individual must read! Period! But others will derive a lot from the book too! When I recollect my childhood and years in medicine, I now recognise in explicit cognition, just how much my parents have sacrificed to get me where it is I am. It can be a truly life changing book.more It has real moral lessons, values, and inspiration to be taken from it, and I would recomend that anybody who has ANY time at all, should read it. He's quite inspirational because of his less than noble background. The voice is powerful and has a sincere tone to it throughout.īen Carson, being a pediatric neurosurgeon, is perhaps the best in the world, having discovered several medical techniques that are used even today, and maybe his greatest contribution, he perfected the hemispherectomy. If its being rated for writing style, it gets 5 stars. If it's being rated by emotional investment, it gets 5 stars. I, at least, felt his struggles, victories, and failures quite strongly. The whole story of his life is inspiring, and the book causes you to become very emotionaly attached to Ben Carson as a character. The voice is powerful and has a sincere tone to it Stop what you're doing. Gifted Hands reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitivity who serves as a role model for anyone who attempts the seemingly impossible.more Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head-an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three.įilled with fascinating case histories, Gifted Hands will transplant you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. Ben Carson-from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon.ĭr. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neur This bestselling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr.
Ben Carson-from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon. This bestselling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr.