Neurosurgeon Ben Carson undergoes cancer surgery [Aug 06, 2002]

Baltimore Sun ^ | August 06, 2002 | Jonathan Bor

[Robert DeLong]

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, renowned chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, underwent a two-hour operation at Hopkins yesterday for prostate cancer and should be ready to go home by Saturday, his surgeon said.

Although tests indicating whether the cancer had spread will take a few days to complete, Dr. Patrick Walsh said, the disease appeared confined to the prostate gland. If lab studies confirm that, he said, the possibility for a cure will be high.

"Everything looked good," said Walsh, Hopkins' chief of urology. "I've said I think this is a curable cancer, and everything today looked compatible with that."

[Robert DeLong]

I too have been guilty of that on occasions. Which is why I started looking more closely at the post before responding. Don’t care about others, but I myself try to keep from looking foolish to a minimum. I usually get caught in a joke post and fail to see the keywords such as humor. Then I feel really stupid. LOL

[JediJones]

Is a side-effect of removing the prostate becoming extremely mild-mannered and soft-spoken?

[centurion316]

No worries. We amateurs are not noticed among the professional screw ups that are now the loudest voices at Free Republic.

[Calpublican]

Yes, you will see someone already pointed that out, and I pointed it out to another commenter.

How odd of the poster to put this up with no warning. It is usual to expect a post is recent unless it is noted otherwise.

[Calpublican]

Yes, you will see someone already pointed that out, and I pointed it out to another commenter.

How odd of the poster to put this up with no warning. It is usual to expect a post is recent unless it is noted otherwise.

[Robert DeLong]

Actually I am partially to blame as I really didn’t provide background for the post. I’m thick skinned enough to not let it get me upset. Life is too short for that, and besides for the most part I enjoy the people on this site. Hopefully we all share the same desire to turn this country around, though I sometimes wonder if that is even a reality anymore. I’m keep praying that it is reality, but I have my serious doubts.

[Sooth2222]

"In 2005, a critical piece in the magazine Mother Jones reported that the ACSH's current medical director, Gilbert Ross, had served time in a federal prison camp and had his medical license revoked for Medicare fraud. ACSH responded with an article on its website stating that Ross was remorseful for the role he played in the scam, that it had occurred during a period of personal and financial hardship, and that Ross had resigned from the fraudulent clinic after only 7 weeks employment. His medical license was reinstated in 2001."

Carson is being criticized by an organization headed by a doctor who has ... served time in prison? For fraud?

Link to Mother Jones article on Ross--> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/11/paging-dr-ross

Wikepedia on American Council on Science and Health ACSH: -->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health

[centurion316]

This place is infested with idiots these days. Ignore them, they matter not. Party on, dude.

[Robert DeLong]

Interesting, thanks for that information.

[nuconvert]

Got it. Thanks

[Robert DeLong]

LOL, actually I have been recuperating for decades now from all the parting in my youth. But if it is a warm night here in Louisiana, I just may put the top down on my vette and go for a cruise. Nothing more soothing a night ride on a warm night with the top down.

[conservativejoy]

Thanks for posting this. This does refute the impression that supplements cured his prostate cancer. I would imagine the surgery deserves the credit for that.

[centurion316]

And, if there is some place along the way with mud bugs on offer with plenty of newspapers and some good boudin then pull over and Lassez les beau temps roulez, mon friere.

[Robert DeLong]

How does someone from Kansas know about boudin? LOL

My wife is the native, I'm just a damn Yankee transplant from that Yankee bastion known as Va. Down here anything north of Louisiana is a damn Yankee. At least according to my father-in-law, a WWII & Korean vet with more pep at 90 than me. Also I prefer their larger cousin, lobster, and I am a novice at the correct way of eatinf the mud bug, AKA crawfish since I won't even try sucking the head out of one. Boudin I tried once but wasn't really that crazy about it either.

Je vais laisser le bon temps rouler quand les bons moments de retour , mon ami.

[Robert DeLong]

LOL, I read it as: Laissez les bons temps rouler, because I glanced at it and read what I thought you were saying.

BTW, seems much warmer tonight than last night, just might have to hit that road, and hard!!!!

[centurion316]

I just live in Kansas, I’m from Arkansas. But I knew Boudreaux and Thibadeaux, dey showed all dat stuff I need to knowed. Plus, my wife is from Louisiana.

[Robert DeLong]

Ah, okay. So you took your wife away, and mine brought me here. LOL

[Tired of Taxes]

To All: This is an OLD article from 2002, but it's news to me. Thought you'd all might like to know, too, if you didn't know already.

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