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  1. Mar 19, 2014 · A friendly orthopaedic surgeon, called in to set Marsh's broken leg, pities him for his choice of career. "Neurosurgery," he says, "is all doom and gloom." But this is not a gloomy book, it is a ...

  2. May 18, 2015 · May 18, 2015. As a young doctor just starting out, Henry Marsh watched a neurosurgeon operate on a woman’s brain, going after a dangerous aneurysm that could rupture and kill her. This kind of ...

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  3. May 21, 2015 · DO NO HARM. Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. By Henry Marsh. 277 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $25.99. Jerome Groopman is the Recanati professor of medicine at Harvard and ...

  4. Mar 13, 2014 · 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, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite ...

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  6. Mar 30, 2014 · Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery review – 'a bloody, splendid book' This article is more than 10 years old Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has written a brutally honest account of ...

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  7. Feb 10, 2015 · The neurosurgeon does not pray within the context of Do No Harm. Instead, a man of letters, of learning and of neuroscience, in this startlingly honest book about ‘Life, Death and Brain Surgery’, Marsh remembers his patients. Do No Harm by Henry Marsh. London: Phoenix (an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd), 2014.

  8. Marsh's incredible honesty is what makes this book truly stand out. Do No Harm is a revealing look at the inner world of neuroscience and the doctors who perform this complicated surgery, as well as a fascinating self-portrait of an expert in this field... continued. Full Review (753 words)

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