Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers the challenges of working in those difficult conditions, alongside the challenges of p...
Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers the challenges of working in those difficult conditions, alongside the challenges of putting a career of fifty years behind you and finding further purpose in life and work.
In Admissions, Marsh offers a thoughtful, perceptive consideration of medicine and the pursuit of a meaningful life that will appeal to readers of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.
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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 documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, w...
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 documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy, and is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Do No Harm. He was made a CBE in 2010.
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'Cultural case,' Dev says. 'The family ties here are so strong. The family just can't accept that there is no treatment. If I hadn't got the boys to operate last night the family would say: "Oh Neuro Hospital doesn't want to operate!" Can you imagine the situation? Next thing they take the patient out of my hospital and somebody else will operate. The patient will be a vegetable but the family are happy and my reputation will be rubbished...'
Dev turns to look at me.
'When I was the Minister of Health under the last king -- before the Maoists abolished the monarchy -- I saved more lives by making crash helmets for motorcyclists compulsory than I will ever save as a neurosurgeon. Most of the families are uneducated,' he goes on. 'They have no conception of brain damage. They are hopelessly... (查看原文)
2 有用 lowai 2017-08-30 23:37:10
与do no harm相比, 这本书结构更散; 侧重点更不在手术上了, 更多地着眼于老年问题和安乐死; 大部分内容和nepal经历有关; 更多地批评NHS (政府为了讨好民众, 不信任医生; 更多地反思自己的一生 (儿子, 丈夫和父亲角色)
1 有用 树叶的叶 2017-06-04 22:52:18
R4 read by Robert Powell. a pessimistic end-of-life story
2 有用 lowai 2017-08-30 23:37:10
与do no harm相比, 这本书结构更散; 侧重点更不在手术上了, 更多地着眼于老年问题和安乐死; 大部分内容和nepal经历有关; 更多地批评NHS (政府为了讨好民众, 不信任医生; 更多地反思自己的一生 (儿子, 丈夫和父亲角色)
1 有用 树叶的叶 2017-06-04 22:52:18
R4 read by Robert Powell. a pessimistic end-of-life story