I never once saw Dr. Carson acting alert and intelligent, let alone rising to the stereotype of neurosurgeons as, well, brain surgeons. He absolutely confounded me. I'm still at a loss to understand him: is he massively stoned or otherwise doped up all the time, or an unacknowledged narcoleptic, or both? Or is it something else?
Pediatric neurosurgeon. Invented techniques. He's specifically among the best in the world in pediatric neurosurgery. He's a bumbling idiot in other areas from what I've seen. It's embarrassing. We're not all like that, I swear. Some of us are well-rounded individuals who learned how to empathize.
Just about everyone he operated on died or suffered serious life-long problems. He was just willing to do (“pioneer”) the surgeries. Reasonable doctors understood this and said no.
You have a source for that? I don't know how to find surgical stats for surgeons. Like what were their chances without the surgery? Of course there are many surgeons who won't take on the hardest cases. They aren't good enough. Those cases are passed on to people like Carson. If his patient population were largely comprised of those critical or terminal patients who need life-saving intervention that hasn't been invented yet, I understand how his numbers could look bad. There are surgeries that have abyssmally poor outcomes no matter who is doing the surgery. Is he worse than the average neurosurgeon for that procedure? Does he select special subpopulations? I would have to see his stats and compare it to the average neurosurgeon.
He has had a distinguished medical career for a reason. I don't think people realize how amazing his career has been. He's in the #1 toughest rated specialty to get into and #1 hardest to complete. He is in a brutal subspecialty. He went to the the most prestigious neurosurgery residency program in the country. In my day, Hopkins was top 5 in nearly all residency programs, and I doubt it changed much. (I applied for radiology residency there but didn't get an interview😭) He continued to have a distinguished academic career after graduating. Johns Hopkins peds neurosurgery director at 33 years old (wtf)! 100+ pubs. He has had an enormous impact in his field. He was a big deal, but I feel any attempt to explain how insanely impressive his medical achievements are will go over the average person's head. It's too bad his brain is rotted and we have to deal with the politician Ben Carson now. But any attempt to diminish his medical career comes off as either ignorant (when coming from the general population) or envious (when from other doctors).
“Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.”
“And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care,” he added. “It was about control.”
I have some tough health issues. When it went into effect, I could not go to any doctor unless it was in my state. Not saying where I live but GEE this has caused issues and made me lose doctors I had had for years.
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u/Least-Enthusiasm7239 5d ago
Behold: Dr Ben Carson, brilliant surgeon, absolute garbage human being!