
Book arrived in good time and well packaged, would recommend to others. 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. Gifted hands is a motivational book which is also appropriate to inspire other young people of the ethnic minority group of the benefits of not letter environment or circumstance dictate the outcome of ones life, its a choice we make. 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. He is also the author of three other bestselling books-Gifted Hands, Think Big, and The Big Picture. Bens mother, Sonya, is the driving force in her sons young lives. When 9-year-old Bens father abandons his family, his heart is broken with the hurt lasting a life-time.

Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. Ben Carsons Gifted Hands is the inspiring autobiography of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation who grew up to become one of the. Benjamin Carson is a professor of neurosurgery, plastic surgery, oncology, and pediatrics, and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Growing up in poverty-stricken Detroit with his mother and elder brother, Curtis, Ben could have never dreamed of the future that lay ahead for him. Growing up without a father was not easy for Ben. Ben Carson-from inner-city kid to renowned neurosurgeon.ĭr. Gifted Hands book is a story about a black kid named Ben Carson that lived in Michigan with his mom and older brother. The driving force in Ben's life was his single mother, Sonya, who often worked three jobs as a maid to make ends meet for Ben and his older brother Curtis. This bestselling book reveals the extraordinary life of Dr. In his book, Gifted Hands, Ben recounts his rise from abject poverty in inner-city Detroit to become a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at prestigious John's Hopkins University.
