Do No Harm

We have achieved most as surgeons when our patients recover completely and forget us completely.

^^ Henry MarshI was really interested in this one with my family's history of brain surgery in particular. The stories did not disappoint --- all super interesting and very inside baseball. Dr. Marsh's outlook didn't quite resonate as strongly with me, which is to take nothing away from the cool stories here.

Do No Harm by Dr. Henry Marsh

The following are excerpts taken from Dr. Henry Marsh's Do No Harm. Bold, italics, and notes are mine. Everything else is Dr. Marsh's.

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The idea that my sucker is moving through thought itself, through emotion and reason, that memories, dreams and reflections should consist of jelly, is simply too strange to understand.--I left them in the little room, their knees squeezed together as the four of them sat on the small sofa and wondered, yet again, as I walked away down the dark hospital corridor, at the way we cling so tightly to life and how there would be so much less suffering if we did not.--To the man with a hammer, it is said, all things look like nails. When brain surgeons look at brain scans they see things that they think require surgery.--You can buy the book here.