Henry Marsh Writer Physician Surgeon Neurosurgeon Non-fiction writer

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neurosurgical advances -
memoir -
local anaesthetic -
protégé neurosurgeon -
design on patient –outcomes-
staff morale-
anthropologist -
absorbing narrative -
slice back the scalp-
to extract tumors-
clip aneurysms-
liberate nerves-
eminent neurosurgeons-
Chafe-
rigid rules -
Incensed-
mandatory dress code-
Compassionate-
remedy their plight-

развитие нейрохирургии
мемуары
местная анестезия
протеже нейрохирурга
дизайн по результатам лечения пациентов
моральное состояние персонала
антрополог
увлекательное повествование
срез задней волосистой части головы
для извлечения опухолей
аневризмы клип
освободите нервы
выдающиеся нейрохирурги
натирать
строгое правило
разгневанный
обязательный дресс-код
сострадательный
исправить их бедственное положение

BIOGRAPHY

Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS (born 5 March 1950) is a leading British neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine. His widely acclaimed memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery was published by Orion Publishers in 2014 and according to The Economist is "So elegantly written it is little wonder some say that in Mr Marsh neurosurgery has found its Boswell."

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Marsh attended the Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. Later he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford University, achieving First Class Honours, before graduating with Honours in Medicine from the Royal Free Medical School.

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Marsh was until 2015 the senior consultant neurosurgeon at the Atkinson Morley Wing at St George's Hospital, south London, one of the country's largest specialist brain surgery units.
He specialises in operating on the brain under local anaesthetic and was the subject of a major BBC documentary Your Life in Their Hands in 2004, which won the Royal Television Society Gold Medal.

He has been working with neurosurgeons in the former Soviet Union, mainly in Ukraine with protégé neurosurgeon Igor Kurilets, since 1992 and his work there was the subject of the BBC Storyville film The English Surgeon from 2007.
He has a particular interest in the influence of hospital buildings and design on patient outcomes and staff morale; he has broadcast and lectured widely on this subject.

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AWARDS AND HONOURS
Marsh was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. Also in 2010 he presented the Leslie Oliver Oration at Queen's Hospital.

PERSONAL LIFE
Marsh is married to the social anthropologist Kate Fox and spends his spare time making furniture and keeping bees.

Reading “Do No Harm,” Henry Marsh’s frank and absorbing narrative of his life in neurosurgery, it was easy to imagine him at the table. The men, and increasingly women, who slice back the scalp, open the skull and enter the brain to extract tumors, clip aneurysms and liberate nerves, share a certain ego required for such work. They typically are bold and blunt, viewing themselves as emperors of the clinical world. Marsh adds irony to this characterization, made clear in the opening line of the book, “I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing.”
Fortunately, the narrative gains a second wind when he recounts the unexpected path he took to become one of Britain’s most eminent neurosurgeons. From a privileged family, he entered Oxford to read politics, philosophy and economics, but abandoned university after being rejected in love.”

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Britain’s National Health Service is a socialized system, and Marsh chafes at new rigid rules imposed by its administrators. He is particularly incensed by a mandatory dress code: Neurosurgeons are subject to disciplinary action for wearing a wristwatch.


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Age and a sense of his own mortality soften Marsh. He becomes more compassionate with his patients, closely attending to them even when surgery cannot remedy their plight. The heart may merely be a muscle, but by laboring in the brain, Marsh learned how to exercise it.