Do No Harm - Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

W&N

2014

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: 0297869876

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 gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candour, one of the country's leading neurosurgeons reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humour that characterise a brain surgeon's life.

DO NO HARM is an 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.

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Henry Marsh é um exemplo de ser humano. Ser humano não no sentido de ter ideais humanistários, mas sim no sentido de errar, reconhecer pensamentos impróprios e seus erros, saber se redimir e pedir perdão. Marsh teve uma coragem em reconhecer sua arrogância, seu temperamento e principalmente o quanto suas ações mudaram a vida dos seus pacientes (muitas vezes para pior). É louvável sua iniciativa de mea culpa e deveria ser um comportamento mais disseminado entre os médicos.