Union Bank Gives $25,000 to Ben Carson Surgeon Scholarship Fund

On March 11, Union Bank presented Ben Carson surgeon with a $25,000 check. The money will go toward Dr. Carson's scholarship project, the Carson Scholars Fund.

Union Bank presented Carson with the check at a symposium that honored the doctor and the debut of the TNT movie about his life, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. Union Bank's CEO, Masaaki Tanaka, gave Carson the check.

"Union Bank is honored to support higher education through our $25,000 gift to the Carson Scholars Fund," commented Union Bank's VP George Ramirez.

The special event was held in Culver City at the Sony Pictures Plaza Atrium. Almost 200 people attended the symposium, including the director and producers of the Gifted Hands movie.

Finding a Summary of Each Chapter Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

If you're looking for a summary of each chapter Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, there are several sites you can consult online.

Amazon.com is a good place to start for a brief synopsis of the book. The site lists several reviews of Gifted Hands that also provide short summaries of its content.

In addition, Amazon.com allows users to look inside the book digitally. Readers can view the front cover, back cover, table of contents, and first chapter of the autobiography.

Books.google.com is another helpful site for book summaries. Just type "Gifted Hands" into the "search books" field, and the site will provide you with a wealth of details on Dr. Carson's book.

Brief Ben Carson Bio

Internet surfers can find several versions of the Ben Carson bio online. The doctor himself also published his bio in the best-selling book Gifted Hands.

Dr. Carson was born in Detroit, MI to a woman who divorced his father when Carson was eight years old. Carson's mother worked two or three jobs in order to provide for Ben and his older brother, Curtis.

Carson's mother pushed him to succeed in school, and he eventually got accepted to Yale University. Carson went on to the University of Michigan medical school where he studied neurosurgery.

When Carson turned 33, he became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins hospital. With a team of 70 other doctors, Carson successfully separated conjoined twins in 1987 for the first time in history.

Ben Carson DVD Movie Fails to Inspire

According to USA Today's review of the Ben Carson DVD movie, the production is "dull" and uninspiring.

The movie, Gifted Hands, is the most recent installment in TNT's Spotlight series of films. The made-for-TV movie tells the life and accomplishments of neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson.

USA Today was critical of the performance of Cuba Gooding, Jr., the actor who plays Dr. Carson. Many reviewers have agreed that Gooding was upstaged by the performance of the actress who plays Dr. Carson's mother, Kimberly Elise.

Some film critics have identified the film's focus on Dr. Carson's famous conjoined twins surgery as its problem. The film would have been more inspiring, they say, had it instead focused on Dr. Carson's victory over poverty and other setbacks.

Dr Ben Carson & The Carsons Scholars Fund

Dr Ben Carson and his wife, Candy, founded The Carsons Scholars Fund in 1994. The scholarship fund is a non-profit organization that acknowledges students who achieve academically and are committed to community service.

Since 1994, The Carsons Scholars Fund has distributed over 3,400 scholarships. Currently, the program has scholars in twenty-six states.

Dr. Carson has set up a website to benefit the fund. All proceeds from the purchase of his books and merchandise on the site go toward the scholarship program.

The Carsons Scholars Fund is not Dr. Carson's first foray into philanthropy. He also chairs the Ben Carson Reading Project to build reading rooms in schools across the U.S.

Seventh-Day Adventist News Ben Carson Play a Success

Seventh-Day Adventist news Ben Carson - Youngsters from 3 middle schools in Washington County, Maryland filled the auditorium of South Hagerstown High School to watch a play about Ben Carson's life story.

The play depicts Carson, an Adventist, conquering the obstacles of poverty, race, and a one-parent home to become a famous and respected pediatric neurosurgeon.

"If he can do it, you can do it, and that's part of the message of this story," Elizabeth Morgan, the superintendent of Washington County Schools, reminded students before the play.

Approximately 800 middle schoolers attended the performance. The play is based on Dr. Carson's two autobiographies.

Dr. Ben Carson Operating on Siamese Twins in 1997

In 1997, the Banda babies were born as conjoined twins in Zambia. Soon, Dr. Ben Carson operating on siamese twins Luka and Banda would save their lives.

The twins were born joined at the top of their heads, though their brains were not connected. The Banda babies were successfully separated by a twenty-doctor surgical team headed by pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

Carson rehearsed for the procedure using virtual reality technology that produced a 3-D replica of the babies' brains from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The surgery took over twenty-eight hours.

The surgery was not without complications. In fact, 19 hours into the procedure, Dr. Carson wanted to stop the surgery because he feared the twins would bleed to death. Because the hospital could not sustain the twins' lives only partially separated, Carson continued and successfully completed the separation.