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Nno Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh (CD-Audio, 2015)

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Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, DO NO HARM ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks. With 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. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. Henry Marsh studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987. He has been the subject of two major documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy. He was made a CBE in 2010. He is married to the anthropologist and writer Kate Fox. Advance Praise: Neurosurgery has met its Boswell in Henry Marsh. Painfully honest about the mistakes that can 'wreck' a brain, 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. It's a superb achievement. -Ian McEwan His love for brain surgery and his patients shines through, but the specialty-shrouded in secrecy and mystique when he entered it-has w firmly had the rug pulled out from under it. We should thank Henry Marsh for that. -The Times 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 kw anything about it, and as it is with everything I'm igrant 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 n-professional, everyday life that they have. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh reveals all of this, in the midst of life-threatening situations, and that's one reason to read it; true honesty in an unexpected place. But there are plenty of others - for instance, the mechanical, material side of being, that we also are wire and strings that can be fixed, t unlike cars and washing machines, really. -Karl Ove Knausgaard, Financial Times Marsh, one of our leading neurosurgeons, is an eloquent and poetic writer. Do No Harm offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the most mysterious part of human life. His descriptions of neurosurgery are at once fascinating and illuminating; a gripping memoir of an extraordinary career. -Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, author of The Organized Mind and This Is Your Brain On Music Do No Harm is a penetrating, in-the-trenches look at the life of a modern day neurosurgeon. With rare and unflinching honesty, Henry Marsh describes t only the soaring triumphs but the shattering tragedies that are so much a part of every surgeon's life. A remarkable achievement. -Michael J. Collins, author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel A soul-bearing account of a practical-minded neurosurgeon who does t suffer fools or believe in souls, who favors 'statistical outlier' over 'miracle, ' and who admits that a surgeon's ultimate achievement is marked by patients who 'recover completely and forget us completely.' Readers, however, will t soon forget Dr. Marsh. -Katrina Firlik, author of Ather Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside Do No Harm is a fascinating look into the reality of life as a neurosurgeon. The personal patient stories are gripping, providing the public with an incredibly candid look into the imperfections and perfec

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Publisher
Highbridge Audio
ISBN-10
1622317432
ISBN-13
9781622317431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212156753

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Running Time
570
Narrator(s)
J P Barclay
Format
CD-Audio
Language
English
Author(s)
Henry Marsh
Contained Items Statement
8 Audio Cds
Date of Publication
26/05/2015
Format Details
CD Standard Audio Format
Subject
Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medical
Imprint
Highbridge Audio
Country of Publication
United States

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