Benjamin Carson became the first doctor on earth to successfully separate a conjoined twins at the head in 1987. That year, Carson with the support of his team members successfully separated 7-month-old twin boys from Germany.
The Binder twins were joined at the back of their heads and shared the sagittal superior sinus, the major blood drainage system of the brain. The groundbreaking surgery of the conjoined twins brought international attention to Benjamin Carson and cemented his reputation as one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons.
Carson rose from being born to a single mother with a poor childhood in Detroit to director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins for almost 40 years. Despite the challenges of growing up in a inner-city neighborhood, he excelled in school and went on to graduate from Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School.
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“After studying the available information, I tentatively agreed to do the surgery knowing it would be the riskiest and most demanding thing I had ever done,” Carson wrote in his best-selling book “Gifted Hands.”
Before retirement, Benjamin Carson was reported to have performed over 300 surgeries a year, almost three times the average of any neurosurgeon. Today, he is a retired neurosurgeon and bestselling author who continues to inspire people all over the world with his story.
