 He then spent one year (1983–1984) as a Senior Registrar in neurosurgery at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.Carson told Karen Hunter of Sirius XM that, at the time of his residency, he was held at gunpoint at a Popeyes restaurant in Baltimore.Armstrong Williams, Carson's campaign business manager, later told Wolf Blitzer of CNN that several people in the neighborhood chased the robber down the street.