(movie) Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

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Ben Carson starts out life with everything against him: an African American child from a one-parent home with failing grades at school, snacking in front of the television, and in need of glasses. But his mother, who dropped out in the third grade, starts making decisions for him. When her boys need to learn the multiplication (times) tables, she has them swear to learn them while she is gone to check herself into a mental institution. When she sees a successful them obscured by TV, she turns off the boys' TV and commands them to read two books per week from the library and give her a book report. She also moves them to better schools.

Meanwhile, Ben starts to bloom. He gets glasses. He learns to multiply. He learns to spell. He starts to explore the world of books, and he grows in it. He also begins to show a temper, a temper that except for a freak of metallurgy would have ruined his childhood.

Having almost killed someone because of his temper, he realizes that he can do anything about it. He runs to his room and cries out to God, praying that He deliver him from his temper.

He becomes the leading scholar of his eighth grade class. He rises to third in his high school class. With hard work and a strong desire, he gets a scholarship to college passing the medical exam which enables him to go on to medical school.

Carson faces adversity from fellow doctors and students while working at Johns Hopkins Hospital in MD. It is here he performs a surgery as a resident without attending supervision, risking his medical career to save a man's life.

Ben Carson is portrayed as an extremely talented neurosurgeon, thus the name of his book, and this subsequent movie, Gifted Hands.

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