Globetrotting brain surgeon’s second memoir offers a frank asessment of man and medicine.
I confess: I haven’t read Henry Marsh’s first memoir, Do No Harm, nor was I aware of the praise it had garnered or the prizes it received, before I read this, his second memoir. I did, however, have an encounter with Marsh some years ago: flicking through television channels late one night, I chanced upon The English Surgeon, a documentary made in the early 2000s, about his work in Ukraine.
In this fly-on-the wall account of one of Marsh’s visits to Kyiv to perform neurosurgery – trips …read more
Source: New Statesman
