Book Review
And Finally: Surgeon gives honest account of facing his own mortality
Having being diagnosed with prostate cancer, the renowned author of Do No Harm writes of negotiating the jarring shift from swaggering surgeon to frail patient
Henry Marsh convinced himself that illness happened to patients, not to doctors. This belief helped insulate him from the sickness and heartbreak he witnessed during his career in brain surgery. For 30 years, Marsh was a forthright, sometimes confrontational neurosurgeon at St George’s Hospital in London. But in 2020, retired and approaching his 70th birthday, Marsh was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
Marsh returned to the hospital where he had worked, but this time as ...
