Author: Marsh, Henry
Call Number: 617.48092 M365D 2015
Book Description from amazon.com:
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?
With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon’s life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life’s most difficult decisions.
My Read:
Page 85-"The operating is the easy part, you know," he said. "By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making." Dr. Marsh went to visit a senior neurosurgeon and told him of his deep desire to be a neurosurgeon. In real life decision-making is some kind of art hard to be excelled. In some cases listed in the book the outcome of an operation was unexpected.
What I found after reading this book is that Dr. Marsh is a very disciplined person; he rode bike to work and ran in the morning, even when it was snowing or raining. To be a surgeon the doctor's hands must be steady. It's amazing that Dr. Marsh practiced more than 30 years as a neurosurgeon.
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