Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (558 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250127262 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was made a CBE in 2010. 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. . HENRY MARSH studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in Lond
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 personal insights.. M. S. Falconer said Five Stars. Love the book fantastic. Wow! A FASCINATING memoir. 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 understand for the non-medical reader.The book has a wonderful conversational style, I got so much out of it, so much knowledge yet it was presented so simply.
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.. 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. Marsh also faces up to the burden of responsibility that can come with trying to reduce human suffering. In Admissions he describes the difficulties of working in these troubled, impoverished countries and the further insights it has given him into the practice of medicine. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Unearthing memories of his early days as a medical student, and the experiences that shaped him as a young surgeon, he explores the difficulties of a profession that deals in probab
The maverick is back, even more blunt and irascible, with tales of thrilling, high-wire operations at medicine's unconquered frontier, woven through with personal memoirMarsh in full spate is quite magnificenta master of tar-black, deadpan humour" Melanie Reid, The Times“The horde of physicians now penning memoirs suggests an insatiable demand for expert gut-spilling. He has a deep humanity that resonates throughout" Good Housekeeping"An enthralling book, unputdownableit is an exhilarating, even thrilling read, a glimpse into a world we hope we