Book
Gifted Hands
by Cecil Murphey and Ben Carson
- Published
- 1992
- Genre
- Biography
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Pages
- 224
- Words
- 68301
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18422.Gifted_Hands?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.8
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 950L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–14
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
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Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head -- an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Gifted Hands 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. Carson also describes the key role that his highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster into one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780310616931
- ISBN-10
- 031061693X
Tags
BiographyCareers-DoctorCarsonEducationMedicineSurgeonUnited States of America