How is Dr. Carson a hero?
1. A person of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
Through his work as a leading pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Carson has displayed incredible ability by virtue of opening the skulls of infants and children and and manipulating his scalpel and other advanced medical technologies, to save and improve the lives of medically at risk children. He has displayed incredible courage by pioneering various surgical procedures that resulted in positive outcomes for patients, when none had previously existed. His motivation, while not immediately known, would seem to have risen from a noble desire to have a career that would deliver maximum benefit to others.
2. A person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. For example, “He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.”
Dr. Carson also meets this definition. Many many people have great admiration for and regard Mr. Carson as a role model because of the service he has performed and the benefit that he has rendered. In addition, Mr Carson is an inspiration to all of us, demonstrating great courage in overcoming institutional racism as well as the disadvantages of his impoverished life.
In other words, he started from a lower place then most and ended up at a higher place then most, and in the process he saved the lives of many children.
Now that's a HERO!