As a surgeon, he was praised for his dedication, unassuming demeanor and attention to detail. As a candidate, he has sometimes seemed imprecise or ill informed, as when he said China had intervened in Syria, and prone to odd assertions like his belief that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Some articles have questioned the accuracy of parts of “Gifted Hands.” His comments doubting evolution and the medically recommended schedule of vaccines have baffled people in science and medicine.
“I think many of the doctors out there would disagree with the things he says as a politician, but understand him as a person as a very decent person,” said Dr. Karin Muraszko, the chairwoman of the neurosurgery department at the University of Michigan, who has socialized and shared patients with Dr. Carson. “The person and the doctor are very separate from the politician.”
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