Ben Carson Unpacked

[synergie]

11. It is rather fun :-)

(I got to do some cutting as an undergrad research assistant). Keep in mind though that he was in a rather high risk field, pediatric neurosurgery tends to create situations where people need someone to blame when things don't go right.

I have family who are in medicine, and they're sued a lot. They served a rather litigious population (people incarcerated already), they never lost a case (they learned early to ensure they documented EVERYTHING).

I actually had some friends who worked in his department at Hopkins, they say that when he was in his wheelhouse he was fine, literally anything outside of neurosurgery, he was pretty ridiculous. His religious beliefs, how he thought the world should be run etc. Observation over years, as non-peers, some of which when he was a star. I was rather starstruck when I attended one of his speeches, he is brilliant when he was talking about hemispherectomies and his personal mythology on his journey out of Detroit. (I've since learned he made up a whole lot of crap re the personal mythology).

The problem with him, as the med students of Hopkins Med School noticed was that the literally had no clue how ignorant he was about literally anything BUT hemispherectomies!