He may well be the most worldwide-revered physician.

He has been awarded 38 honorary doctorates, dozens of national merit citations, and, at the White House, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Since the 1980s, his pioneering of neurosurgery to separate conjoined twins has made international headlines.

He endured a boyhood on the inner-city streets of Detroit, where he was tormented as one of the few blacks in a predominantly white school where he was taunted as "dumb."

His single mother, Sonya Carson, helped immeasurably by requiring his brother and him to read two books each week, while limiting them to only two TV programs per week, while she worked three jobs to support them.

Before he changed from a serious problem child – who at age 14 stabbed a friend – into his school's top student, he turned to prayer and is today a devout Seventh Day Adventist.

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After graduating from Yale, where he earned a scholarship, he graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He was accepted into the residency program in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Today he is professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery and pediatrics; director of pediatric neurosurgery; and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center. He still operates on more than 300 children a year.

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But Dr. Carson was not among those physicians recently invited to the White House. You may remember that all of those M.D.s who arrived wearing plain clothes for this non-medical event were provided white coats – for this bizarre photo-op.

Dr. Carson was probably not invited because his Medal of Freedom was presented by President George W. Bush – whom Obama keeps blaming for so much.

There was that and what Dr. Carson told WLOS-TV in Asheville, N.C., about the Obama health-care program (now sponsored by Speaker Pelosi via her 1,990-page bill – begging the question as to how many members of Congress actually read it).

Said Dr. Carson on WLOS:

• "My biggest problem is I feel it's going in the wrong direction. It's giving us more government and less autonomy. And I think we should be going in exactly the opposition direction – we should be having more autonomy and less government. And that is the kind of thing that brings prices down."

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• "Tort reform must go hand-in-hand as part of any true health-care reform. ... We have to bring a rational approach to medical litigation. ... Special-interest groups like the Trial Lawyers Association don't want a solution."
  
  
• "What happened to the private insurance companies in Canada? Just like that, they were gone – because they couldn't compete with it [the government]. Now, why would it be any different here? That's one of the things that disappointed me about the lack of honesty. ... We can't really debate when there's all this subterfuge."

At the Wednesday, Oct. 28, daily White House news briefing, I wanted to ask press secretary Robert Gibbs:

"Dr. Benjamin Carson of Johns Hopkins described the proposed health-care legislation as 'going in the wrong direction in giving us more government and less autonomy.' Question: What is the president's reaction to this world-famed neurosurgeon?"

But while this Obama press secretary allowed CBS and NBC to ask 10 questions apiece, I was among the 33 reporters present whom Gibbs refused to allow even one question. None of the other 10 press secretaries ever did that to me as much as Gibbs.

This makes it important to remember the promise by newly inaugurated President Obama on Jan. 20 of this year:

"Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."

That, and Obama's promise to provide "the most transparent administration in history," began perishing – almost immediately – in those Robert Gibbs press briefings.