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About the product Making mistakes or colliding with strangers, we reassure ourselves with phrases like «It is human to make mistakes.» But do they console someone who has fallen prey to someone else’s incompetence? And do they console the doctor who could not help? We want to believe that the doctor is infallible in his workplace. In the operating room, he is omnipotent, he never gets tired and does not feel bad, does not get irritated or distracted by extraneous thoughts. But what is it really like to be a neurosurgeon? How does it feel to know that not only the patient’s life depends on your actions, but also his personality — the ability to think and create, be sad and rejoice? Sooner or later, every neurosurgeon will inevitably ask these questions, because any operation is associated with a huge risk. Henry Marsh, a world renowned British neurosurgeon, has pondered them throughout his career, and the result of his reflections is an exciting, utterly frank and poignant book, the main idea of which can be summed up in two short words: “do no harm”.
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