Do No Harm

书名：Do No HarmStoriesofLife,DeathandBrainSurgery
作者：HenryMarsh
译者：
ISBN：9781780225920
出版社：Phoenix
出版时间：2014-10-9
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：288
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

The Instant New York Times best seller! Riveting. … [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frighte ning understanding of his vocation. – The New York Times Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize A Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize A Financial Times Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.

作者简介：

Henry Marsh studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984, and was ap pointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987. He has been the subject of two major documentary films, Your Life in Their Hands, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal, and The English Surgeon, which won an Emmy. He is married to the anthropologist and writer Kate Fox.

书友短评：

@ lowai 读完心外科医生的Fragile Lives之后紧接着又读完神外医生的这本回忆录。风格有些区别，Fragile Lives更重叙事，更技术流，一章讲一个患者的故事，有很多技术细节，令人惊叹于医学的进步和生命的延展性，作者常有一些出人意表而不失幽默的比喻。而本书更像是散文集，作者以自己的视角记录了医生的内心世界。那些艰难的权衡取舍，那些失败后的沮丧时刻，那些繁杂的行政管理造成的冗余和不便，仿佛是Fragile Lives的另一面。这也使本书基调更为低沉，而且作者的场景描写非常具有画面感。合上书，对那句话有了更直观的认识——“偶尔去治愈，常常去帮助，总是去安慰”。 @ Tempy Kimo 这文字能力，妥妥五星。原来作者与与人类学家Kate Fox是神仙眷侣，果然，不是一类人不进一个门。

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