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

作者：HenryMarsh

出版社：Phoenix

副标题：StoriesofLife,DeathandBrainSurgery

出版年：2014-10-9

页数：288

定价：GBP8.99

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9781780225920

内容简介
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The Instant New York Times best seller!

Riveting. … [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frighte ning understanding of his vocation. – The New York Times

Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize

A Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

An Economist Best Book of the Year

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 lifesaving 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, 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 craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life.

Do No Harm provides 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.

作者简介
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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 ap pointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987. He has been the subject of two major documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy. He is married to the anthropologist and writer Kate Fox.

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人生最精彩的故事写在病例本里 brutally honest brilliantly written 读得欲罢不能 在捧腹大笑时泪流不止

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讲述疾病与死亡的书是那么迷人，让我重拾了当初看LGBT类作品的那种激情。可惜平权再看早已没有处理生死那样让人颤栗。让我印象最深的是作者记录母亲癌症弥留的那几天，搬回自己的家，躺在床上。他每早来看她，她便说：“活着呢”也说她很幸福。她的儿女陪在身边，好友在餐桌前聚，说着她的平生……直到最后一刻，她都未失智。作者，作为握了半生手术刀的医生，羡慕起这种的死亡。

我也羡慕。

这是一位英国著名神经外科医生的行医笔记。话说作者是二十一岁弃文从医的耶，那不是和我现在的年纪一样嘛？如果我想转行当医生是不是也还来得及( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)不过当医生要接触那些开颅剖脑的血腥手术，天天面对疾病与死亡，偶尔手术失误时遭受内心自责与病患家属责备的双重煎熬，甚至还要背这么多又长又臭的医学词汇……还是算了吧

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