I think Carson is a decent man with some decent views.
Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson...
Folks, this guy was a good neurosurgeon. That ranks him on a scale of 1 to 10 in executive experience, a 3 or 4.
In general this means he had an office with five to ten employees. Even then he may have hired an office manager.
Is he truly qualified to be president?
Just holding decent idea does not make one presidential.
I really like Ben Carson but (and that's a big BUT) I just don't think he's strong enough to be President. In some polls he's 2nd and I understand where people are coming from but to be President you have to be strong, fearless and able to twist arms to get what you want done. I don't see that, much as I like him I would liken his demeanor to be like Jimmy Carter. I don't see that ability to twist arms to get the job done. He's more of a "sit down and let's talk about it kind of guy".
He was head of neurosurgery at one of the top research hospitals in the nation. He was head of all the ego-bloated superdoctors of neurosurgery as well as the ego-bloated neurosurgery faculty at the medical school, and as such, served on several boards with oversight of large budgets and responsibilities for large numbers of medical staff and patient outcomes.
I really have not made up my mind about who I support, but I do believe you have understated the executive experience of Dr. Carson. He wasn’t just a neurosurgeon, he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital (youngest director of a major department at that hospital at age 33). On one surgery, he organized and directed a surgical team of 70 to separate cojoined twins. This is certainly more than just being a neighborhood doctor.
Kind of on another subject, you also mentioned that in running a medical office “he may have hired an office manager.” The President also hires managers to run the day-to-day operations of the government. I doubt if the President spends more than 10 minutes on any given topic in a day (unless Obama is out playing golf). You have to know how to delegate. Trump would know this - but then, even Jeb would know how to do that after being a governor.