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Hopkins Neurosurgeon Receives Medal of Freedom
President Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Benjamin Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon and director of pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital during ceremonies at the White House. The medal is the nation's highest civilian award and recognizes exceptional meritorious service. (Getty Images / June 19, 2008)
By David Nitkin | Sun reporter
1:34 PM EDT, June 19, 2008
WASHINGTON - Dr. Benjamin S. Carson Sr., a Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon who rose from childhood poverty to become a leader in the separation of conjoined twins, received the nation's highest civilian award at the White House today.
President Bush presented Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, singling out the doctor's mother for her doggedness in ensuring her sons were serious about education despite growing up in a troubled environment.
"Some moms are simply forces of nature who never take no for an answer. I understand," Bush said, drawing laughter for his allusion to his own famously strong-willed mother, former first lady Barbara Bush.
Sonya Carson "was married at the age of 13, and ultimately was left to raise her two sons alone. ... Every week the boys would have to check out library books and write reports on them," Bush said. "She would hand them back with check marks, as though she had reviewed them -- never letting on that she couldn't read them."
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