Dr. Ben Carson

At that time, there had been eight black neurosurgeons in the world. But, you know, the Lord does not distribute talent based on race. I continued to migrate in that direction. And that's how I ended up in neurosurgery. And I started out as an adult neurosurgeon, but I very soon started migrating toward pediatrics because I just love kids and the potential that exists in kids.

At that time, there had been eight black neurosurgeons in the world. But, you know, the Lord does not distribute talent based on race. I continued to migrate in that direction. And that's how I ended up in neurosurgery. And I started out as an adult neurosurgeon, but I very soon started migrating toward pediatrics because I just love kids and the potential that exists in kids.

At that time, there had been eight black neurosurgeons in the world. But, you know, the Lord does not distribute talent based on race. I continued to migrate in that direction. And that's how I ended up in neurosurgery. And I started out as an adult neurosurgeon, but I very soon started migrating toward pediatrics because I just love kids and the potential that exists in kids.

And also with kids, you can do things that you can't do in adults because of plasticity. The fact that all the neurons haven't decided what they want to do when they grow up yet. So you can do more radical things and it can still turn out okay. And, you know, the rest is history.

And also with kids, you can do things that you can't do in adults because of plasticity. The fact that all the neurons haven't decided what they want to do when they grow up yet. So you can do more radical things and it can still turn out okay. And, you know, the rest is history.

And also with kids, you can do things that you can't do in adults because of plasticity. The fact that all the neurons haven't decided what they want to do when they grow up yet. So you can do more radical things and it can still turn out okay. And, you know, the rest is history.

Things like hemispherectomies, where you take out half the brain to cure certain types of intractable seizures. The first one that I did was in 1985, a little girl from Denver. She said, I'm from Denverado. She was from Denver, Colorado. She was having up to 130 seizures every day. They had tried everything to stop them, even putting her into a pennebarbital coma for two weeks.

Things like hemispherectomies, where you take out half the brain to cure certain types of intractable seizures. The first one that I did was in 1985, a little girl from Denver. She said, I'm from Denverado. She was from Denver, Colorado. She was having up to 130 seizures every day. They had tried everything to stop them, even putting her into a pennebarbital coma for two weeks.

Things like hemispherectomies, where you take out half the brain to cure certain types of intractable seizures. The first one that I did was in 1985, a little girl from Denver. She said, I'm from Denverado. She was from Denver, Colorado. She was having up to 130 seizures every day. They had tried everything to stop them, even putting her into a pennebarbital coma for two weeks.

But as soon as they lifted the common, the seizures started back up again. And the head of pediatric neurology at Hopkins is a much older fellow than myself. He said, would you consider doing a hemispherectomy? It's an operation that had really been first done by Walter Dandy in about 1930. And some others had tried it. And it was dramatically successful in stopping some of the seizure activity.

But as soon as they lifted the common, the seizures started back up again. And the head of pediatric neurology at Hopkins is a much older fellow than myself. He said, would you consider doing a hemispherectomy? It's an operation that had really been first done by Walter Dandy in about 1930. And some others had tried it. And it was dramatically successful in stopping some of the seizure activity.

But as soon as they lifted the common, the seizures started back up again. And the head of pediatric neurology at Hopkins is a much older fellow than myself. He said, would you consider doing a hemispherectomy? It's an operation that had really been first done by Walter Dandy in about 1930. And some others had tried it. And it was dramatically successful in stopping some of the seizure activity.

But the complication, the morbidity and the mortality was so high that it had fallen out of favor. So I read up on all the literature. I said, you know, a lot of these things that caused these people to die are things that we know how to deal with now that maybe they didn't know how to deal with in 1930 or 1940 or 1950.

But the complication, the morbidity and the mortality was so high that it had fallen out of favor. So I read up on all the literature. I said, you know, a lot of these things that caused these people to die are things that we know how to deal with now that maybe they didn't know how to deal with in 1930 or 1940 or 1950.

But the complication, the morbidity and the mortality was so high that it had fallen out of favor. So I read up on all the literature. I said, you know, a lot of these things that caused these people to die are things that we know how to deal with now that maybe they didn't know how to deal with in 1930 or 1940 or 1950.

And so maybe if we apply some of the modern techniques that we have, we can do this successfully. And that first operation on the little girl from Denver, was a spectacular success. She was very photogenic, as was her mother. It got a lot of attention. That brought in a lot of calls from other people from around the country who had children who had these intractable seizures.

And so maybe if we apply some of the modern techniques that we have, we can do this successfully. And that first operation on the little girl from Denver, was a spectacular success. She was very photogenic, as was her mother. It got a lot of attention. That brought in a lot of calls from other people from around the country who had children who had these intractable seizures.

And so maybe if we apply some of the modern techniques that we have, we can do this successfully. And that first operation on the little girl from Denver, was a spectacular success. She was very photogenic, as was her mother. It got a lot of attention. That brought in a lot of calls from other people from around the country who had children who had these intractable seizures.

And we did several hemispherectomies. Got a lot of attention. That was probably my First 15 minutes of fame. You see, everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. That was my 15 minutes of fame. But then the next year, one of the obstetricians came to me.

And we did several hemispherectomies. Got a lot of attention. That was probably my First 15 minutes of fame. You see, everybody gets 15 minutes of fame. That was my 15 minutes of fame. But then the next year, one of the obstetricians came to me.