A provocative and heartfelt new memoir from the brain surgeon and bestselling author of DO NO HARM
Henry Marsh was one of Britain's foremost brain surgeons, and worked as Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London for thirty years. Since retiring from full-time work in the NHS, he has continued to operate and lecture abroad, in Nepal, Albania and Ukraine. His prize-winning memoir, DO NO HARM, was a SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. He has been the subject of two award-winning documentary films, YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS and THE ENGLISH SURGEON. He was made a CBE in 2010.
Sensational...Marsh is curmudgeonly, unflinching, clinical,
competitive, often contemptuous and consistently curious. In
Admissions he scrubs up just as well the second time around and
continues to revel in his joyous candour
*THE SUNDAY TIMES*
Superb...a eulogy to surgery and a study of living. I didn't want
this book to end. Henry Marsh is part of a growing canon of superb
modern medical writers...whose storytelling and prose are
transportative...His timing is also impeccable...His sentences,
too, feel like works of the finest craftmanship, made with the love
that goes into both his woodwork and surgery
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
Marsh is, given his profession, a surprisingly emotional man,
likably so. His account of his younger self that threads through
this compulsive book is a Bildungsroman in itself. He is also a
fine writer and storyteller, and a nuanced observer
*OBSERVER*
The maverick is back, even more blunt and irascible, with tales of
thrilling, high-wire operations at medicine's unconquered frontier,
woven through with personal memoir...Marsh in full spate is quite
magnificent...a master of tar-black, deadpan humour
*THE TIMES*
Disarmingly frank storytelling. [Marsh] is, in spite of himself,
hugely likeable...his reflections on death and dying equal those in
Atul Gawande's excellent Being Mortal
*ECONOMIST*
Epigramatically balanced and almost brutally candid...Admissions
offers a reprise of many of [Do No Harm's] virtues, from the
elegance of the writing to the undiminished sense of wonder at the
complexity of the brain
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
Admissions is a humbling read, in which neurosurgeon Henry Marsh
shares fascinating facts learnt during his 40-year career as a
brain surgeon. He has a deep humanity that resonates throughout
*GOOD HOUSEKEEPING*
Transgressive, wry and confessional, sporadically joyful and
occasionally doleful. It is in many ways a more revealing work than
Do No Harm, and the revelations it offers are a good deal more
personal...Marsh skilfully articulates the subtleties and
frustrations of neurosurgery - but there is a deeper examination of
death, and an angrier exposition of the shameful betrayal of the
NHS by successive generations of politicians...honesty is
abundantly apparent here - a quality as rare and commendable in
elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists...elegaic but
consistently entertaining
*GUARDIAN*
An enthralling book, unputdownable...it is an exhilarating, even
thrilling read, a glimpse into a world we hope we may never have to
enter
*THE ARTS DESK*
Fascinating...Marsh paints a vivid picture of the pressures imposed
on a surgeon who is quite literally at the cutting edge of modern
medicine
*DAILY EXPRESS*
[Marsh] is wise and insightful about the balance and confidence,
truth and uncertainty faced by doctors...his insights about life,
death and professional purpose are irresistible
*SUNDAY EXPRESS*
I particularly relished his descriptions of the anatomy of the
brain itself, as well as his can-do accounts of freeing cancerous
masses from their baroque architecture - but I enjoyed (if this is
the correct word) still more his willingness to delve as fearlessly
into his own, troubled being ... accounts of highly undoctorly
behaviour that nonetheless confirms Marsh as the man I would most
like to have prying open my skull. Perhaps most disarming of all is
Marsh's frankness about his own fears of growing older and dying
... should be distributed to every care home in Britain
*NEW STATESMAN*
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