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ISBN
1250127262
Book Title
Admissions : Life As a Brain Surgeon
Item Length
8.5 in
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Year
2017
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Henry Marsh
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Medical
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 "Marsh has retired, which means he's taking a thorough inventory of his life. His reflections and recollections make Admissions an even more introspective memoir than his first, if such a thing is possible." -- The New York Times "Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." -- The Guardian "Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent Being Mortal ." -- The Economist Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm , Marsh retired from his full-time job in England to work pro bono in Ukraine and Nepal. In Admissions he describes the difficulties of working in these troubled, impoverished countries and the further insights it has given him into the practice of medicine. Marsh also faces up to the burden of responsibility that can come with trying to reduce human suffering. Unearthing memories of his early days as a medical student, and the experiences that shaped him as a young surgeon, he explores the difficulties of a profession that deals in probabilities rather than certainties, and where the overwhelming urge to prolong life can come at a tragic cost for patients and those who love them. Reflecting on what forty years of handling the human brain has taught him, Marsh finds a different purpose in life as he approaches the end of his professional career and a fresh understanding of what matters to us all in the end.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250127262
ISBN-13
9781250127266
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234931064

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Book Title
Admissions : Life As a Brain Surgeon
Author
Henry Marsh
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Medical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Rd592.9.M37a3 2017
Reviews
More Praise for Do No Harm "A surprising page-turner...Marsh's prose is elegant and seasoned, with no false bravado." -- The Seattle Times "Marsh delivers plenty of hospital drama. Yet what sticks with you are the moments when the lens flips and the field of view widens, and you realize that, in learning about the minutiae of neurosurgery, you're gaining insight into life itself." -- The Wall Street Journal "One of the best books ever about a life in medicine." -- Booklist (starred review) "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 "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 know anything about it, and as it is with everything I'm ignorant 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 non-professional, everyday life that they have. Do No Harm 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." --Karl Ove Knausgaard, Financial Times, Praise for Do No Harm "Riveting... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening understanding of his vocation." - The New York Times "The Knausgaard of neurosurgery... Marsh writes like a novelist." - The New Yorker "Like the work of his fellow physicians Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, Do No Harm offers insight into the life of doctors and the quandaries they face as we throw our outsize hopes into their fallible hands." - The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-023778
Dewey Decimal
617.481092
Dewey Edition
23

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