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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
5 reviews
caro6408's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Grief, Child death, Blood, Cancer, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Pregnancy
Minor: War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug use, Addiction, and Vomit
jolyne's review
5.0
Of course, it gets intense. It’s uncomfortable to read about how a medical professional regards his patients and to be faced with a lack of compassion that we typically expect doctors to have, but that’s also a story that has to be told. As people who are not surgeons, many of us just choose to place our confidence in the doctors that we’re told to have faith in. It’s interesting to then be placed on the other side of the looking glass and forced to confront the unspoken truths that we try to avoid thinking about, and Marsh makes for a funny and sardonic guide. Elaborating on how there’s almost a certain necessary level of sociopathy that brain surgeons need in order to be able to stomach operating on such uncertain cases, he also takes time to regard his colleagues who aren’t in neurosurgery with what feels like a sense of envy, love, and respect, saying that they were much too nice to ever succeed in his field.
As somebody who reads a lot of non-fiction, I also always appreciate when the writing style opts for being accesible instead of being ridiculously indulgent (we get it guys, you’re smart and have a lot to say blah blah). This is a book that I would be comfortable recommending to most people, in part because of how conversational Marsh’s writing is but mostly for the gripping content.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Drug use
emily_p1's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical content and Cancer
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, and Gore
fluffy1st's review
3.25
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Death
Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness
Minor: Death of parent
kfquarium's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical content
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Suicide attempt