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.

Ben Carson posing

It was the American Dream."

Reid added, “We believed he could walk on water.”

And it’s going to spread very, very rapidly.

Ben Carson smiling

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."