Summary Of Do No Harm, By Henry Marsh

Thomas Jefferson once said: “Whenever you do a thing, act as if the whole world was watching.” This ties into a prodigious neurosurgeon and author, Henry Marsh. Marsh is a British neurosurgeon and author, who was born on March 5, 1950, in Oxford, United Kingdom. He became a doctor only at the age of 29. This neurosurgeon is married to Kate Fox, who is an anthropologist. Marsh wrote books about brain surgery, used striving for accuracy to help people in brain surgery, and illuminated the world by writing circumstantiated books that showed the world what it was like during brain surgery for a neurosurgeon. Marsh wrote a book that showed our nation what troubles, and what miracles, are caused in a brain surgery. His most famous work is: Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery. In 2015, Marsh released this book in 2015. The book describes the experiences he has had while practicing as a neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh; Gale, 2016)

After his most famous book got released, Marsh stated: "The way I see it now, there is so much discussion about medicine and health care in media and in politics that is deeply unrealistic and I wanted to write a book that shows what it is really like, at least from a doctor's point of view. It's often a very imprecise business and doctors are not rational computers. A lot of people don't realize just how uncertain medicine is and how difficult many of the decisions are.”(Henry Marsh; Gale, 2016) What Marsh said that day made it very clear that he always strove for accuracy while in surgery, and while writing his