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Carson's parents were Robert Solomon Carson Jr. (1914–1992), a World War II U.S. Army veteran, and Sonya Carson (née Copeland, 1928–2017). [19] Both from large families in rural Georgia, Carson's parents met and married while living in rural Tennessee, when his mother was 13 and his father 28.
Ben Carson surgery Benjamin and Patrick Binder were born connected at the head and separated at age 7 months after a 22-hour surgery on Sept. 6, 1987, by Ben Carson and a team of doctors, the ...
In a 1993 interview, their mother, Theresia Binder, described guilt for agreeing to the operation that ruined the boys' prospect of ever having any quality of life. [2] According to The Washington Post' s 2015 interview with Parlagi, Benjamin never learned to speak or feed himself, but he does enjoy visitors, and being taken for walks.
They were born joined at the back of the skull and faced in opposite directions. In late 1997, neurosurgeon Ben Carson led a team of 50 Zambian and South African specialists to separate the 11-month-old twins in a 28-hour operation. [2] They did not share any organs, but shared intricate blood vessels that flowed into each other's brains.
Dr. Ben Carson -- the renowned neurosurgeon who ran a presidential campaign in 2016 -- is gunning for the role of Health and Human Services secretary under President-elect Donald Trump, The Post ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The portrait used to hang in the hallway, welcoming children and parents to the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore: a smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical scrubs, rubbing ...
Carson in 2015. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story or simply Gifted Hands is an autobiographical book about the success story of Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and future politician, and his life going from a failing student to leading a team of surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. [1]
The Wall Street Journal reports two stories detailed in Carson's biography, 'Gifted Hands,' are tough to verify. WSJ report: Ben Carson story about being named 'most honest student' hard to verify ...