Author of works Think Big (Think Big) and Big Picture (Big picture), Dr. Benjamin S. Carson is director of the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA He is Professor of Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Oncology and Pediatrics, and has written more than ninety articles on neurosurgery. He has received 27 doctorates "honorary" and numerous civic and governmental awards. It is one of the 89 "living legends" chosen as such by the Library of Congress of the United States and has been recognized by CNN as one of the twenty most prominent physicians and scientists today. But he is also a patient. In June last year he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer and underwent surgery in early August that year. In this interview, Dr. Carson shares his thoughts on the influence it has had that experience on him and his faith, and provides an update on his mind right now. Dialogue published in 1990 a review of our interview, and since then Dr. Carson has been blessed with many positive experiences. His influence has reached the presidency and the Congress of the United States, but the center of their activities remains the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he works in one of the most complex areas of medicine, such as neurosurgery. His success in achieving “miracles” has been confirmed by numerous witnesses. However, with his usual calm and humble form he gives all credit to God. Dr. Carson received many invitations to address the word as he can motivate and inspire your audience. This has given numerous opportunities to witness to their faith in the Lord and his Adventist beliefs. From humble beginnings, Dr. Carson has risen from being the shy of the classroom to the prestigious position in which it is currently, as a direct consequence of "courage that my mother gave me the grace of God." It is one of the most kind and gentle that they can trace a living testimony of the Lord's power to transform human beings into His likeness. Dr. Carson lives in Maryland, USA, with his wife, Candy, and their teenage children: Murray, BJ and Rhoeyce.
His Book
Carson in his book called taking the Risk states that any individual who does not allow one to test the limits or any individual who is not willing to experience the world of risks is naturally destined to live a life that is mediocre. The term risk is concerned with experiencing the inexperienced. Risk is not just limited to that. It also constitutes the danger of carrying the after-effects of it which can wither be carried for life or could be only confined to a particular situation. Carson further states that
Even in the darkest moments, when one believes that taking risk is riskier since there is no credibility of the way life will change it is then when one should believe that God is never wrong. This gives great ...