I was reading about that operation that made him famous. It was because he made the final cut of the critical vein before smaller veins were grafted.
The couple was German; after seven months they returned to Germany. The boys were never able to do anything by themselves, too much brain damage.
It put such a strain on the family; the father could hardly stand to look at them; the mother was tormented with guilt that she had borne them but loved them. He drank and went down hill. They divorced, and she was left in poverty.
She remarried and has had one or by now maybe two normal children. One of the separated twins has died and one is alive in an institution. One was named Ben.
It was not Dr. Ben's fault, of course, but all did not end well.
I try to just state facts as well and the fact is, Ben shouldn't have EVER even contemplated throwing his hat into the ring; he isn't qualified to be president!