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Do No Harm About the book:
Do No Harm 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 life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor’s oath to ‘do no harm’ holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, Henry Marsh must make agonising decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practised by calm and detached surgeons, this griping, brutally…
Hardcover, ISBN 0297869876
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2014
Used – Near Fine. Dust Jacket unclipped. 278 pages.; includes dustjacket