Gifted Hands is the inspiring story of Ben Carson, M.D., a young boy from the inner city with little education and few prospects, who at 33 years old became the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Gifted Hands will take you into the operating room to witness surgical procedures that have opened new avenues in the medical world. You will discover the mind of a compassionate and God-fearing doctor who lives to help others.
In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide fame for participating in the first separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head, an extremely delicate and complex operation that required five months of preparation and 22 hours in the operating room and involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate.
Gifted Hands reveals a man full of humility, compassion, courage, and sensitivity, a role model for young people and for anyone who needs encouragement to attempt what seems impossible and to excel in everything they do. Dr. Carson describes the key role that the common sense passed on to him by his uneducated mother played in this metamorphosis that transformed him from an unmotivated young man from the ghetto into one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.