Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250127262 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nataša MV said Worth reading. Very interesting book, this time even more personal than his previous book. There are more admissions, more in-depth insights into his personal history. And there is his fear of death, although in his words, irrational, because it is the fear of eternal nothingness. Actually, he is more afraid of dying after unnecessary suffering. I am wondering whether there will be a third book with even more p. Five Stars Love the book fantastic. "Wow! A FASCINATING memoir." according to Julie Haigh. This was definitely my kind of book-I love medical memoirs. It was engaging and fascinating from the outset. Enormously interesting. Honest, revealing, often eye-opening. As well as the author’s work in the UK, it also tells of his teaching and operating in Nepal, The Ukraine, a masterclass/workshop in the US etc. A fantastic book for me and written in such a way that it is very easy to und
It's a superb achievement.” Ian McEwan“When a book opens like this: ‘I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing' – you can't let it go, you have to read on, don't you? Brain surgery, that's the most remote thing for me, I don't know anything about it, and as it is with everything I'm ignorant of, I trust completely the skills of those who practice it, and tend to forget the human element, which is failures, misunderstandings, mistakes, luck and bad luck, but also the non-professional, everyday life that they have. And that is no bad thing, given how articulate so many of them are. Perhaps most disarming of all is Marsh's frankness about his own fears of growing older and dying should be distributed to every care home in Britain” Will Self, New Statesman "Superba eulogy to surgery and a study of living. He is also a fine writer and storyteller, and a nuanced observer" Tim Adams, Observer"Do No Harm, candid and tender, was o
Reflecting on what forty years of handling the human brain has taught him, Marsh finds a different purpose in life as he approaches the end of his professional career and a fresh understanding of what matters to us all in the end.. Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired from his full-time job in England to work pro bono in Ukraine and Nepal. The International Bestseller"Consistently entertainingHonesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." The Guardian"Disarmingly frank storytellinghis reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent Being Mortal." The EconomistHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating high
. He has been the subject of two documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy, and is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Do No Harm. He was made a CBE in 2010. HENRY MARSH studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was a