Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story – Ben Carson M.D. ,Cecil Murphey

His mother had a third-grade education. His father left when he was eight. He was the worst student in his fifth-grade class. His classmates called him the “dummy.” He had such an explosive temper that at age fourteen he nearly stabbed a friend to death.

Ben Carson M.D. became the Director of Paediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age thirty-three — the youngest major division director in the history of one of the world’s most celebrated medical institutions. He performed the first successful separation of twins conjoined at the back of the head. He pioneered the hemispherectomy procedure that gave children with catastrophic seizure disorders back their lives. He operated on patients that no other surgeon in the world would touch — and he saved them.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is the specific, personally told, profoundly faith-grounded account of how the specific boy from the specific Detroit poverty became the specific most celebrated paediatric neurosurgeon in the world. It is simultaneously the specific most inspiring rags-to-excellence story available from any medical figure, the specific most moving account of a mother’s faith in a son that the specific world had already written off, and the specific most personally honest testimony of the specific role that God played — not abstractly but specifically, not generally but personally — in every stage of the specific transformation that the specific story documents.

Published by Zondervan. Written with Cecil Murphey.

What This Book Covers:

The Beginning — A Boy and a Mother:

The Detroit Childhood:

• The specific poverty — the particular circumstances of the specific Detroit housing project, the specific single mother household, and the specific early childhood environment that would have produced the specific statistically expected outcome for the specific Black boy in the specific 1960s American inner city; why the specific statistical prediction was wrong; what made it wrong
• Sonya Carson — the specific mother who is the specific most important person in the specific entire story; the particular woman with the specific third-grade education who refused to allow the specific poverty, the specific absent father, and the specific specific societal expectation to determine the specific destiny of her sons; how the specific woman who could barely read herself instituted the specific two-books-per-week reading requirement that changed the specific trajectory of both her sons forever; why Sonya Carson is simultaneously the specific most important character in the specific Ben Carson story and one of the specific most remarkable mothers in the specific literature of parental faith
• The specific reading transformation — how the particular requirement to read the specific two library books per week and to write the specific written reports that Sonya Carson required produced the specific most dramatic academic transformation available; how the specific boy who was the specific worst student in his specific fifth-grade class became within two years the specific top student in his specific school; why the specific reading habit is the specific single most transformative intervention documented in the specific entire Gifted Hands story and why it applies as directly to the specific Kenyan child as to the specific Detroit child
• The specific anger — the particular explosive temper that Ben Carson describes with the specific honesty that makes this autobiography genuinely remarkable; the specific near-stabbing incident at fourteen; the specific three-hour prayer in the specific bathroom with the specific Bible that produced the specific specific transformation of the specific anger that the specific specific surgical career the specific God had planned required the specific specific freedom from; why the specific specific prayer and the specific specific Scripture-reading in the specific specific moment of the specific specific crisis is one of the specific most personally honest and the specific most specifically documented accounts of the specific specific divine intervention in the specific specific ordinary crisis available in any Christian autobiography

The Formation — Education and Faith:

School and University:

• The specific academic journey — how the particular specific boy who was the specific class dummy became the specific top student, the specific Yale University scholarship recipient, and the specific University of Michigan Medical School graduate through the specific combination of the specific reading habit that his mother instituted, the specific competitive pride that the specific academic transformation produced, and the specific specific faith that the specific specific God was guiding the specific specific process; the particular specific Yale years and how the specific specific encounter with the specific specific impossible pre-chemistry examination produced the specific specific miraculous intervention that Carson describes as one of the specific clearest evidences of the specific divine guidance in his specific preparation
• The specific faith formation — how the specific Seventh-day Adventist faith that Sonya Carson instilled in her sons was not the specific peripheral religious background but the specific central, the specific formative, and the specific ultimately determinative influence on every major decision in the specific specific Ben Carson story; how the specific specific understanding that the specific specific gifts were God’s gifts — that the specific specific hands were gifted by the specific specific God for the specific specific purpose — produced the specific specific humility, the specific specific dedication, and the specific specific dependence on God through the specific specific surgical career that the specific title Gifted Hands most directly expresses
• The specific medical school years — the particular specific challenges of the specific University of Michigan Medical School; the specific specific moments of self-doubt, the specific specific academic pressure, and the specific specific encounters with the specific specific racism of the specific specific medical establishment of the specific specific era that Carson navigates with the specific specific combination of the specific specific faith, the specific specific determination, and the specific specific genuine intellectual excellence that the specific specific reading habit had produced in the specific specific Detroit boy

The Surgery — The Gifted Hands at Work:

Johns Hopkins:

• The specific Johns Hopkins appointment — how the particular specific combination of the specific specific surgical talent, the specific specific reputation for taking the specific specific cases no one else would take, and the specific specific willingness to attempt the specific specific procedures that the specific specific surgical establishment considered impossible produced the specific specific appointment as the specific specific Director of Paediatric Neurosurgery at the specific specific youngest age in Johns Hopkins history; why the specific specific appointment is less the specific specific story of the specific specific Carson ambition and more the specific specific story of the specific specific cases that the specific specific Carson was willing to attempt
• The specific haemispherectomy — the particular procedure of removing one entire hemisphere of a child’s brain to stop the catastrophic seizures that were destroying the specific child’s specific mind and specific future; the specific specific first cases, the specific specific terrifying responsibility of the specific specific surgeon who was attempting the specific specific procedure for the specific specific first time on the specific specific children who had no other option, and the specific specific extraordinary outcomes that the specific specific procedure consistently produced in the specific specific hands that God had specifically gifted for the specific specific purpose; why the specific specific haemispherectomy is simultaneously the specific specific most terrifying and the specific specific most hope-giving procedure that the specific specific Carson story documents
• The specific Siamese twins — the specific 1987 operation that brought Carson to the specific specific global attention of the specific specific worldwide medical community; the specific specific seventy-two-hour surgery to separate the specific specific German twins Patrick and Benjamin Binder who were joined at the back of the head; how the specific specific prior months of surgical planning, the specific specific simulation procedures, the specific specific team of seventy surgeons and support staff, and the specific specific prayer that Carson describes as the specific specific foundation of the specific specific entire preparation together produced the specific specific first-ever successful outcome of the specific specific operation that the specific specific medical establishment had considered impossible; why the specific specific separation of the Binder twins is not the specific specific specific climax of the specific specific Carson story but the specific specific specific public evidence of the specific specific specific preparation, the specific specific specific faith, and the specific specific specific gifted hands that the specific specific specific story had been documenting from the beginning
• The specific patient stories — the specific specific children, the specific specific families, and the specific specific specific moments in the specific specific operating theatre that Carson describes with the specific specific combination of the specific specific medical precision and the specific specific genuine emotional honesty that makes the specific specific surgical narrative simultaneously the specific specific most technically compelling and the specific specific most personally moving dimension of the specific specific entire autobiography; why the specific specific Carson who is at the specific specific most professionally competent in the specific specific operating theatre is simultaneously the specific specific Carson who is at the specific specific most personally vulnerable to the specific specific specific weight of the specific specific specific responsibility he carries

The Faith — What Carries Him Through:

• The specific prayer practice — how Carson describes the specific specific practice of prayer before every significant surgical procedure; the particular specific relationship with the specific specific God of the specific specific Seventh-day Adventist faith that he carries from the specific specific Detroit childhood through the specific specific Yale University years through the specific specific Johns Hopkins career; why the specific specific prayer is not the specific specific superstition of the specific specific frightened surgeon but the specific specific genuine dependence of the specific specific gifted man on the specific specific Giver of the specific specific gifts
• The specific specific divine guidance — the particular specific moments that Carson describes as the specific specific clearest evidences of the specific specific divine direction in the specific specific specific career; the specific specific dreams that produced the specific specific surgical solutions, the specific specific moments of the specific specific inexplicable clarity in the specific specific operating theatre, and the specific specific specific experiences of the specific specific specific guidance that the specific specific specific medical education cannot fully explain and that the specific specific Carson does not attempt to explain away
• The specific humility — how the particular specific understanding that the specific specific hands are gifted by the specific specific God for the specific specific purpose produces the specific specific humility that is simultaneously the specific specific most personally defining quality of the specific specific Carson character and the specific specific most consistently noted quality of the specific specific Carson that the specific specific colleagues, the specific specific patients, and the specific specific families who have known him describe; why the specific specific gifted surgeon who gives God the specific specific credit for the specific specific gifts is the specific specific most trustworthy person available to the specific specific parent of the specific specific child whose specific specific brain is in those specific specific hands

The Lessons — What the Story Teaches:

• The specific reading lesson — the particular most directly applicable and most immediately actionable lesson available from the specific Carson story; how the specific reading habit that Sonya Carson required of her sons produced the specific transformation that no specific tutoring, no specific remedial class, and no specific specific institutional intervention had produced; why the specific Kenyan parent who institutes the specific same requirement — the specific two books per week, the specific written report — for the specific specific child who is currently underperforming is the specific specific most directly implementing the specific specific most documented academic transformation strategy available
• The specific “think big” philosophy — the particular Carson acronym that extends from the specific Gifted Hands story into the specific Think Big book (already in your catalogue): Talent, Honesty, Insight, being Nice, Knowledge, Books, In-depth learning, God; how the specific specific philosophy that produced the specific specific surgeon is the specific specific philosophy most directly available to every specific Kenyan child, student, and professional who encounters it
• The specific specific faith and excellence partnership — how the specific specific Carson story is the specific specific most thoroughly documented available evidence that the specific specific genuine Christian faith and the specific specific pursuit of the specific specific highest possible professional excellence are not the specific specific competing priorities that the specific specific secular educational establishment most consistently implies but the specific specific most naturally and the specific specific most powerfully complementary orientations available; why the specific specific God who gave the specific specific gifts expects the specific specific gifted to use the specific specific gifts at the specific specific highest level available

Why Kenyan Readers Are Buying This Book: The specific Ben Carson story resonates in Kenya with the specific intensity of recognition rather than the specific distance of observation. The specific African boy from the specific poverty who became the specific world’s best through the specific combination of the specific mother’s faith, the specific reading habit, and the specific God-guided determination is not the specific American story that the specific Detroit setting would suggest. It is the specific story of every Kenyan child who comes from the specific circumstances that the specific statistics predict will produce the specific limited outcome — and whose specific mother, whose specific faith, and whose specific own specific determination have always been the specific available alternative to those predictions.

At Ksh 100, the specific most inspiring medical biography and the specific most genuinely faith-affirming autobiography available from any figure in modern medicine.

Who This Book Is For:

• Every Kenyan student who has been told by their specific circumstances, their specific grades, or their specific environment that the specific highest professional aspiration they are nurturing is not for people like them — and who wants the specific most thoroughly documented evidence available that those specific circumstances are not the specific final word
• Kenyan parents who want the specific most moving and the specific most practically documented account of what the specific specific parental investment in the specific specific child’s reading and the specific specific faith produces across a specific specific lifetime
• Kenyan medical students, nursing students, and healthcare professionals who want the specific most personally honest and the specific most faith-grounded account of what the specific specific pursuit of medical excellence looks like from the inside
• Kenyan Christians who want the specific most thoroughly documented and the specific most personally honest account of what the specific specific genuine Christian faith looks like in the specific specific highest-pressure professional environment available
• Every reader of Think Big (Carson), The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr., Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela), Dreams from My Father (Obama), and Left to Tell (Ilibagiza) who wants the most personally intimate and the most specifically faith-grounded Black excellence biography to complete their inspirational biography library

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