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

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh, 277 pages.
A great medical memoir from a British Neurosurgeon. The stories highlight some of the differences between the British and American medical system and the differences in medical training in the two countries. Each chapter revolves around a specific case with a grim diagnosis, Pineocytoma, Ependymoma, and Medullablastoma for example. Marsh takes the reader through the case and tells what happened to the patient.
Well-written and sympathetic tales from a caring surgeon. Marsh does long for the day when as a surgeon he could get his way in the medical environment because he was the surgeon. There are many more layers of bureaucracy in British medicine now, and tantrums no longer have a positive outcome for the surgeon or the patient.
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