Do No Harm : Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)

from vguy

Superb! Medical science in clear accessible style, intriguning life-story including his having studied PPE and coming into medicine via dropping out, dramatic and moving stories and a sense of a genuinely decent bloke. His accounts of NHS managers more frightening than anything in surgical theatre.

from stellarexplorer

A delightful and somewhat irreverent tale of neurosurgery. Marsh's short book reads like an apology. You can't be a neurosurgeon without contributing to disaster, that you were trying to help notwithstanding. Marsh is sorry. He spent sixteen hours delicately dissecting away the brainstem tumor of...

from nyiper

This book needs at least 10 stars---Marsh is such a great writer, incredibly detailed in the descriptions of his experiences---most impressively, adding his emotional opinions about everything. His accomplishments in one lifetime are extraordinary. Fascinating reading!!!

from aadyer

A quite brilliant little book detailing a series of cases, as experienced by a senior neurosurgeon in a London Teaching Hospital renowned for Neurosurgery. Not only a good collection of fascinating medical cases for the medical reader & lay person alike, but a memoir of the drama, high tension, e...

from Carolee888

I loved Do No Harm by Henry Marsh and did not want it to end. It tells of his work as a neurosurgeon with brutal honesty and intense compassion. He reminds me so much of my father who was also a doctor but not a neurosurgeon. One thing that I already knew stood out, that doctors will admit their ...