Must give a tip of the hat to Ben Carson

[packman]

the surgeon. Saw a medical documentary on him operating on a young girl yesterday. He came across as competent, in charge, knowledgeable and compassionate toward his patient.

What happened to him?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He is (or was) very good at one thing.

This does not mean he is good at other things. To do the kind of work he did, one has to be very single-minded, and extremely confident. It's very likely that he never learned much about anything outside his field, but became so supremely confident (surgeons are somewhat infamous for their God-playing arrogance) that he doesn't have any clue that he's ignorant about everything but surgery.

[11cents]

4. He doesn't just come across as a good technician, though.

If I only knew him from that documentary, I'd want him as my doctor, and not just because of his skills. Something went wrong with him.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde Syndrome?

[Siwsan]

2. My amateur guess on what happened to him: Dementia or incipient Prion disease

I used to credential physicians for a healthcare plan. Pediatric neurosurgeons are few and far between. Someone with his skills completely retiring from medicine so young tells me there's something seriously wrong with him. He could still be saving lives as a consultant or instructor but instead is on a campaign to turn back time.

[KamaAina]

5. Or access to his own prescription pad

More common among doctors than one might think.

[underpants]

6. I always thought that was strange

He does sit on some Board of Directors but he appeared to just completely disconnect with his medical background. It's not strange for the "get every buck you can aspect" but for the aspect of leaving his chosen field without such a, once, brilliant mind.

[11cents]

3. Yes. I saw that documentary when it was first broadcast, a number of years ago.

It was long before he became a (quasi-)political figure. A particularly touching episode of a documentary series about Johns Hopkins, and he indeed comes across very well in it.

[trumad]

7. And Hitler was once a cute child.

[packman]

9. He really was

If you could go back in time, would you kill baby Hitler? Could you kill baby Hitler?

[trumad]

11. I wouldn't kill him.

I'd relocate him to California and get him into a painting class.

[packman]

14. Interesting comment

Hitler was a decent landscape painter specializing in buildings in little villages. However, he was denied entry into an art school because he had problems painting human figures.

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Other Paintings at:

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[trumad]

16. I see a lot of would you kill Hitler baby......

No---I would not. Put him in a different environment---raise him differntly---who knows what the dude would have turned out to be.

The again---

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. He was a better artist than W...

[Adrahil]

8. It's called cognitive dissonance....

He is able to believe contradictory things.

[Vinca]

10. I think he's a neurosurgical savant.

What else could explain his desire to take Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and other government programs that involve the health of the American people away? Plus he seems to have little or no knowledge about how the government works, the Constitution or the duties of the POTUS. For some reason he's latched on to the far right as a good thing which makes no sense at all. They would just as soon allow his young patients to starve for lack of food stamps or die for lack of Medicaid. I can't stand the guy.

[spanone]

12. he practiced lobotomies on himself?

[JI7]

13. he is no longer doing what he is great at

[lame54]

15. too much ether

[Bucky]

17. I'll let Alec Baldwin explain it to you

[Skittles]

19. I believe some kind of mental deterioration is happening

he comes across as a loon now