Ben Carson's ex-colleagues aren't entirely sold on a Carson presidency

Some former colleagues of GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson aren't convinced that being a neurosurgeon is good preparation for being president of the United States.

"I think that someone who has been a governor, who has run a big political system, is probably more prepared to run a massive system," Dr. Henry Brem, the chief of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, told The New York Times. "Let me put it a different way, I would not make a good president. I run one of the best neurosurgery departments in the country, I'm very proud of how I run it, but there's no way in the world that I would make a good president."

Dr. Brem wasn't the only former co-worker of Carson's who was hesitant to endorse him for president. Carol James, Carson's physician assistant, told the Times that while Carson had "characteristics that would be really good as president," she ultimately had a hard time imagining Carson in the Oval Office.

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Other former colleagues of Carson's did cite some of his skills that would be useful should he be elected, however. Among Carson's assets gleaned from his time as a neurosurgeon, his former co-workers cited his "administrative skills," "fundraising skills," "moral and ethical foundation," the "ability to make important life and death decisions rapidly," and the fact that he is "amazingly good at talking with people" as important traits that would help him in the presidency.