Ben Carson makes it very clear in his book that his patients mean everything to him. This article written by Liz Klimas titled “Two Decades Later, Ben Carson to Meet With the Man He Operated on at Just 5 Years Old”, tells the story of Adam Brandt, whom Carson operated on and how they were going to meet up again after 20 years. Klimas writes, “...he began suffering from severe headaches. Doctors at first chalked them up to be stress or related to some life event, but when one was so painful it caused him to vomit, his parents took him to the hospital” (Klimas 5). They discovered a tumor in his brain, known as pilocytic astrocytoma. After an unsuccessful surgery that caused the tumor to come back later, they saw a story of Ben Carson operating