![]() The book helped me trust that in moments of ridicule and shame that the world is wont to grant (I faced many at workplaces), you have the power of God that is willing you forth with massive amounts of endurance and peace that is beyond anybody's reach. Just recently she had been telling me to climb higher and higher in my path, motivating me by stating, "If you are determined, nothing can stop you, no bad criticism, nothing." The lessons I am learning from the book match closely with those my mother teaches me so often. My mother has always pushed me to take challenges with a pinch of salt and wade through them with a smile like she has always done. I see Sonya as a reminder of my own mother. This is the story of a ghetto boy hailing from the streets of Detroit, who climbs monumental rungs of obstacles and challenges (so much 'nigger' statements and ridicule included) to finally become a renowned paediatric neurosurgeon in the John Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland. Reading about this book overwhelmed me with this truth I have always recognised in fragments but never quite as deeply as I am doing now. When I recollect my childhood and years in medicine, I now recognise in explicit cognition, just how much my parents have sacrificed to get me where it is I am. I personally think this is a book every healthcare individual must read! Period! But others will derive a lot from the book too! It has real moral lessons, values, and inspiration to be taken from it, and I would recomend that anybody who has ANY time at all, should read it. He's quite inspirational because of his less than noble background. The voice is powerful and has a sincere tone to it throughout.īen Carson, being a pediatric neurosurgeon, is perhaps the best in the world, having discovered several medical techniques that are used even today, and maybe his greatest contribution, he perfected the hemispherectomy. If its being rated for writing style, it gets 5 stars. If it's being rated by emotional investment, it gets 5 stars. I, at least, felt his struggles, victories, and failures quite strongly. The whole story of his life is inspiring, and the book causes you to become very emotionaly attached to Ben Carson as a character. “Love, faith, and hard work … overcome seemingly impossible odds.” -Ebony “Some say he would be a great man even if he never picked up a scalpel.” -Parade “He is a model to all the youth of today.” -Jesse Jackson “He works miracles on children others have written off as hopeless.” -Barbara Walters, ABC News 20/20 Filled with fascinating case histories, this bestselling book tells the dramatic and intimate story of Ben Carson’s struggle to beat the odds - and of the faith and genius that make him one of today’s greatest life-givers. ![]() Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts the seemingly impossible. 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 John Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. FROM INNER-CITY KID TO RENOWNED NEUROSURGEON THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF DR.
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