Do no harm. Stories about life, death and neurosurgery

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When we make mistakes or encounter strangers, we reassure ourselves with the phrases “To err is human.” But do they console the one who has become a victim of someone else's incompetence? And do they comfort a doctor who couldn't help?
We want to believe that the doctor is infallible in his workplace. He is omnipotent in the operating room, never gets tired and does not feel bad, is not irritated and is not distracted by extraneous thoughts. But what is it really like to be a neurosurgeon? What is it like to know that not only the life of the patient, but also his personality - the ability to think and create, to be sad and happy - depends on your actions?
Sooner or later, every neurosurgeon inevitably asks these questions, because any operation is associated with a huge risk. Henry Marsh, the world-famous British neurosurgeon, pondered them throughout his career, and the result of his reflections was an exciting, extremely frank and poignant book, the main idea of ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbwhich can be summed up in two short words: "do no harm."

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Publication language: Russian

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