Carson was performing roughly 400 surgeries a year at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
There are good reasons why his former colleagues may find him God-like.
According toThe Baltimore Sun, Carson pulled himself out of poverty and became a success story.

It was the American Dream."
Reid added, “We believed he could walk on water.”
And it’s going to spread very, very rapidly.

Pretty soon everybody’s gonna have it."
I was going to write a book about him.
That man pioneered hemispherectomy in children.
This guy, whoever he is, makes me believe in body snatchers."