Gifted Hands

Gifted Hands - Ben Carson tells his inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neuron-surgery at John Hopkins University Hospital. It reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitivity who serves as a role model for young people {and everyone else} in need of encouragement to attempt the seemingly impossible and to excel in whatever they attempt. Dr. Carlson also describes the key role that is highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster to one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.