But what is baffling to me is that it isn’t just the mechanics of surgery. There are all kinds of nuanced management issues after surgery; fluid intake, post-op medications, dosages, antibiotics, decisions about therapies, and more – all the more complicated because his patients were children (some infants with little room for error). It simply isn’t cookie-cutter, and he seems incapable of even coming up with an original sentence that makes sense. I can’t imagine him actually managing a child’s post-op care.
The rest of the team must have managed that.
He’s not stupid. When he retired from Johns Hopkins as an instructor, it was super quick. He’s got that senile grandpa at Thanksgiving thing about him so I think he’s got neurological problems from either dementia or from the aggressive cancer treatment he underwent about a decade or so ago. I think that’s why his retirement happened in a blink. It’s really sad.
It shouldn’t become status quo," Carson said…and Quid pro quo…
Carson’s really practicing up on his latin today.
Believe me it doesn’t work that way. At Hopkins the team would consist of Residents and Fellows. They would all be knowledgable but an attending physician couldn’t get away with consistently bad judgment and patient management. I agree with others who think that something happened (brain injury? Drugs? Who knows?) that caused him to lose his position at Hopkins.
I’m a little surprised that no one at Hopkins (nurses, doctors, others who heard rumors) have kept quiet. Hospitals are real rumor mills, and stuff like this flies high and low.
Anyway, naturally, when his speaking and writing gigs became so lucrative and easy, he began looking for a challenge. Obviously, running for President popped into what was left of his brain, and the rest is history.
I’ll take your word for how things work in hospitals. If the man is an idiot savant surgeon they might keep him around just to operated and have other people do the complicated stuff? Hah- but yes, it does seem that something somewhere is really wrong with this picture. Surgeons have a reputation (no idea if it is deserved) for being arrogant, and Carson certainly is that, but they also have a reputation for intelligence that he does not bear out. It is certainly tempting to think that something must have happened to him or must be wrong with him.
ed to add that yes, I know surgery IS a complicated part. Just trying to imagine sleepy Ben managing anything at all.
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