Do No Harm (book)

Do No Harm is a 2014 memoir by world-class neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. Reviewers describe it as 'honest', 'compassionate', and 'poetic'.

  Each of the twenty-five chapters highlights a particular medical condition; pineocytoma, meningioma, medulloblastoma, etc. Marsh explains that surgery is the easy part; making decisions is tougher. In one case a patient's family claim £6 million compensation.
 Bad as life is for UK surgeons, with postponed operations, callous management and grieving relatives to handle, post-communist Ukraine, which Marsh first visited in 1992, is far worse. 
 Marsh draws on personal experience too; his son's sudden illness and his mother's death.