Do No Harm

Large Print
(368 Pages)
Product Number: LP3528
Released: 01 Jul, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471297335
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? Do No Harm offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.

Author(s): Henry Marsh
Awards:Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014; Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize 2015; Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014
Original Publish Date: 01 Jul, 2015

Professional reviews

"‘Exquisitely attuned to the tense and transient bond between doctor and patient […] and hilariously impatient of hospital management, Marsh draws us deep into medicine's most difficult art and lifts our spirits.’ IAN MCEWAN, Author. ‘Marsh has nothing to hide. […] He tries not to extinguish hope when there is barely any, and not to be forced to operate when the outlook is futile.’ THE TIMES"

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