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Nov 13, 2015 · And when it came time on that day in 1987 to put a knife to the large vein connecting them — the most fraught step in the groundbreaking operation to separate infant conjoined twins — Benjamin...
Mar 24, 2017 · Dr. Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was a pioneer in the field of pediatric neurosurgery. He catapulted to world-renowned status in that arena as the principal surgeon in a 22-hour operation separating conjoined twins, who were attached at the head.
- Growing Up Carson
- A World-Renowned Surgeon Is Born
- The Binder Twins
- Ben Carson’s Career
Life had been tough for the Detroit, Michigan native born on September 18, 1951, to Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson. His mother, Sonya, married when just 13, only to find out her husband had another family. That discovery led to divorce and hardships for Carson and his siblings. Lagging behind in class, Sonya forced her boys to take to reading whil...
Carson returned to Johns Hopkins in 1984 and, in 1987, attracted international attention by performing a surgery to separate seven-month-old occipital craniopagus twins in Germany. Patrick and Benjamin Binder were born and joined at the head. At the parents’ invitation, Carson went to Germany to consult with the family and the boys’ doctors. The bo...
Updates on the children were limited after they returned to Germany following the surgery. “I will never get over this. . . . Why did I have them separated?” the boys’ mother, Theresia Binder, told the Freizeit Revue, a sister publication of Bunte, in November 1993. “I will feel guilty forever.” Theresia Binder and her husband, Josef, welcomed the ...
Carson would go on to perform hundreds of other difficult and impressive surgeries, including operating on babies inside the womb and removing large chunks of the brainsof children plagued by repetitive seizures. Carson has received a legion of honorary doctorate degrees and accolades and has sat on the boards of numerous business and education boa...
Apr 22, 2014 · Carson came up from an underprivileged background to become the first neurosurgeon to ever successfully separate conjoined twins who were joined at the head. The stories of overcoming...
Jan 4, 2000 · Among his specialties, Dr. Carson separates conjoined (or Siamese) twins, performs hemispherectomies in which half the brain is removed from children who have extreme seizures and performs...
Nov 13, 2015 · Everyone in the operating room assumed Dr. Ben Carson, then director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine, would do the honors of severing the thin blue vein that last...
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NeuLine Health. Dr. Benjamin Carson. In honor of Black History Month, we’re discussing the major accomplishments of Dr. Ben Carson, who was the first neurosurgeon to successfully separate craniopagus twins and was the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States at just age 33.
