Henry Marsh - Do No Harm

Henry Marsh - Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death & Brain Surgery

What is it really like to be a brain surgeon? To hold someone’s life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? Henry Marsh, one of the country’s top neurosurgeons, reveals what it is to play god in the face of the life-and-death situations he encounters daily. He gives a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre, the chaos and confusion of a modern hospital, the exquisite complexity of the human brain, and the blunt instrument that is a surgeon’s knife by comparison.