Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
- ISBN-10
- 0297869876
- ISBN-13
- 9780297869870
- Series
- Do No Harm
- Category
- Brain
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Henry Marsh
Description
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? In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, 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. Henry Marsh gives a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating the.
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