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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.
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##神經外科醫生對自己職業生涯的迴顧。一些成功的病例讓人雀躍。作者也很坦誠地細數瞭自己的失誤，以及作為醫生很多時候的難以避免的無能力為。醫生要對病人懷有同理心，但也要保持適當的距離感以保護醫者自身作為一個人的脆弱。
評分##長年麵對死與生的腦外科醫生的筆記和內心獨白，故事講得精彩，同時也帶齣瞭發人深省的製度、道德甚至是哲學問題，好看
評分作者說他牛津ppe齣身突然就有那種posh eton boy stereotype瞭，去烏剋蘭那裏寫得很發展落後地區，渾身一種歐洲老牌紳士的感覺（但真正很renowned瞭之後就不令人討厭反而很敬畏
評分##“The operating is the easy part, you know,’ he said. ‘By my age you realize that the difficulties are all to do with the decision-making.” “Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.”"Great surgeons tend to have bad memories."
評分##改天寫一篇讀後感吧。嚴重推薦。
評分##講述疾病與死亡的書是那麼迷人，讓我重拾瞭當初看LGBT類作品的那種激情。可惜平權再看早已沒有處理生死那樣讓人顫栗。讓我印象最深的是作者記錄母親癌癥彌留的那幾天，搬迴自己的傢，躺在床上。他每早來看她，她便說：“活著呢”也說她很幸福。她的兒女陪在身邊，好友在餐桌前聚，說著她的平生……直到最後一刻，她都未失智。作者，作為握瞭半生手術刀的醫生，羨慕起這種的死亡。 我也羨慕。
評分##講述疾病與死亡的書是那麼迷人，讓我重拾瞭當初看LGBT類作品的那種激情。可惜平權再看早已沒有處理生死那樣讓人顫栗。讓我印象最深的是作者記錄母親癌癥彌留的那幾天，搬迴自己的傢，躺在床上。他每早來看她，她便說：“活著呢”也說她很幸福。她的兒女陪在身邊，好友在餐桌前聚，說著她的平生……直到最後一刻，她都未失智。作者，作為握瞭半生手術刀的醫生，羨慕起這種的死亡。 我也羨慕。
評分##這是一位英國著名神經外科醫生的行醫筆記。話說作者是二十一歲棄文從醫的耶，那不是和我現在的年紀一樣嘛？如果我想轉行當醫生是不是也還來得及( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)不過當醫生要接觸那些開顱剖腦的血腥手術，天天麵對疾病與死亡，偶爾手術失誤時遭受內心自責與病患傢屬責備的雙重煎熬，甚至還要背這麼多又長又臭的醫學詞匯……還是算瞭吧
評分##作者居然參與瞭Holby City的撰寫😂😂/讀後感：除瞭烏剋蘭那段特彆cherry on the cake,後半部分實在是太長太draining瞭。
