Henry Marsh is a retired neurosurgeon and the bestselling author of Do No Harm and Admissions. Both books were Sunday Times No. 1 bestsellers, and have been translated into over thirty languages. Do No Harm was awarded the South Bank Sky Arts Award and the PEN Ackerley Prize, and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, Duff Cooper Prize, Wellcome Book Prize and Guardian First Book Award. Marsh was made CBE is 2010. Since retiring from full-time work in the NHS in 2015, he continued to operate and lecture abroad. He is married to the anthropologist Kate Fox, and lives in London and Oxford.
Henry Marsh may have retired from medicine but let's hope he
keeps producing books as good as this one, which enthral as well as
teach. * Observer *
[And Finally] is unexpectedly fun, and the author is
pretty much irresistibly likeable... diagnoses and remissions
are described with wonderful candour... [and Marsh's] discussion of
end-of-life care and assisted dying is the best essay I have
read on the subject. * Guardian *
[Marsh is] deeply reflective, the result is a bit like sitting
in the pub with the smartest person you know. * Spectator *
Beautifully written... A thoughtful journey into his
experience as a doctor-turned-patient, enlivened with a wonderful
black humour and a gimlet eye for comforting nonsense... One
couldn't wish for a better guide. -- Steven Poole * Daily
Telegraph, 5 stars *
His dignified introspection is a joy. -- Clare Chambers,
author of SMALL PLEASURES
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