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Do no harm : stories of life, death and brain surgery / Henry Marsh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Phoenix 2014Description: ix, 277 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781780225920 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 617.481092 23
LOC classification:
  • RD31 .M3 2014
Summary: What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in the face of the life-and-death situations he encounters daily. Henry Marsh gives a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre, the chaos and confusion of a modern hospital, the exquisite complexity of the human brain, and the blunt instrument that is surgeon's knife by comparison.
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4 Week Loan Midland Regional Hospital Library Portlaoise Midland Regional Hospital Library Portlaoise Loan collection MRH Portlaoise Available PT12462
4 Week Loan St. Columcille’s Hospital Dublin St. Columcille’s Hospital Dublin Book Available 140093
4 Week Loan St. Conal’s Hospital, Letterkenny St. Conal’s Hospital, Letterkenny Letterkenny University Hospital Library RD592.8.M27 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B05762
4 Week Loan St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny Open Shelves 617.48092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 034100
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in the face of the life-and-death situations he encounters daily. Henry Marsh gives a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre, the chaos and confusion of a modern hospital, the exquisite complexity of the human brain, and the blunt instrument that is surgeon's knife by comparison.

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