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A review by chloe_paton
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
5.0
Read for book club, and hard to put down.
A fascinating topic in itself - the brain and all the things that can go wrong. But for me, the real interesting part is how raw and honest this is. It is hard to admit any mistakes in the medical field, but to do so with such catastrophic outcomes is brave.
I think this contrasts so well with Black Box Thinking where Matthew Syed really dives into the airline vs medical fields in terms of best vs worst practice learning from mistakes, but Marsh gives such an interesting look into the human side of it.
The author himself has a few old school views on the world and I’m not sure we’d be pals in real life. But I guess that’s the sort of personality you need to bounce back from failures like these and keep on working.
A fascinating topic in itself - the brain and all the things that can go wrong. But for me, the real interesting part is how raw and honest this is. It is hard to admit any mistakes in the medical field, but to do so with such catastrophic outcomes is brave.
I think this contrasts so well with Black Box Thinking where Matthew Syed really dives into the airline vs medical fields in terms of best vs worst practice learning from mistakes, but Marsh gives such an interesting look into the human side of it.
The author himself has a few old school views on the world and I’m not sure we’d be pals in real life. But I guess that’s the sort of personality you need to bounce back from failures like these and keep on working.