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Henry Marsh

Geboren: March 05, 1950 – Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Henry Marsh is a British neurosurgeon and author whose writing explores brain surgery, medical uncertainty, ethics, and mortality. He is best known for the memoirs Do No Harm, Admissions, and And Finally. His work has reached a broad international readership and is widely regarded for its candid, humane account of modern medicine.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Henry Marsh was born in Oxford in 1950, the youngest of four children of the law reformer Norman Marsh and Christel Marsh, who had fled Nazi Germany before the war. He was educated at the Dragon School and Westminster, and at first seemed headed for the academic path expected in his family, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. Yet his route into medicine was indirect and hard won. A period of depression led him to leave Oxford, spend time in psychiatric care, and work in an operating theatre in Ashington, where the practical discipline of surgery gave him a vocation of his own. He returned to complete his Oxford degree, then studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Another decisive experience was personal: his infant son survived a brain tumour, and not long afterward Marsh saw an aneurysm operation that persuaded him to become a neurosurgeon. He joined St George’s Hospital in London, became a consultant there in 1987, and later helped establish awake craniotomy for selected brain tumours as routine practice. ((https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4650337))

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The more difficult, the more challenging, the more dangerous the operation, the more I wanted to do it
-The more dangerous the operation, the more I wanted to do it
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My job is to teach. The point is to help the next generation
-Ukraine is like a Trabant that wants to be a Ferrari
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But as the law stands, I am not allowed this comfort, and the law insists instead that I must suffer
-Top UK brain surgeon calls for urgent inquiry into assisted dying
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But I wonder endlessly what sort of world my grandchildren will be living in when they reach my age
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People talk about the mind-matter problem – it’s not a problem for me: mind is matter
-The mind-matter problem is not a problem for me
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Would they want to survive in a terribly damaged state?
-Professor Henry Marsh
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The NHS has management but no leadership
-The neurosurgeon on operations that go wrong
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The only place I’m in complete control of what I do is in the operating theatre
-The Independent Bath Literature Festival
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When I operate on a brain it’s as though I’m holding a human soul in my hands, and I find that quite frightening
-Surgical spirit
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Nobody died when I made a mistake
-After a long career in brain surgery, I’m trying my hand at making doll’s houses

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"Neurosurgery has met its Boswell in Henry Marsh"

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"Brain surgeon Henry Marsh's memoir is an honest, sometimes alarming and always compelling account of his working life"

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"Henry Marsh confronts his mortality"

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"Henry Marsh may have retired from medicine but let's hope he keeps producing books as good as this one, which enthral as well as teach"

Observer ((

"Henry Marsh, pioneering brain surgeon, navigates fear, powerlessness, and acceptance after a diagnosis of prostate cancer in his memoir And Finally"

The Boston Globe ((

"Brain surgeon Henry Marsh tells of triumphs, failures in bestselling memoir Do No Harm"

CBS News ((

"Henry Marsh is part of a growing canon of superb modern medical writers"

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"We can't all be neurosurgeons like Henry Marsh, but it's worth listening to someone who is"

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