Do no harm. Stories about life, death and neurosurgery. March G.

Making mistakes or encountering strangers, we reassure ourselves with phrases like "a person tends to make mistakes." But do they comfort the one who became a victim of someone else's incompetence? And do they comfort a doctor who could not help?

We want to believe that the doctor is infallible in his workplace. In the operating room omnipotum, never gets tired and does not feel bad, is not annoyed and is not distracted by extraneous thoughts. But what is it really - to be a neurosurgeon? How do you know that not only the life of the patient depends on your actions, but also his personality - the ability to think and create, be sad and rejoice?

Sooner or later, every neurosurgeon inevitably asked these questions, because any operation is associated with a huge risk. Henry Marsh, the world -famous British neurosurgeon, thought over them throughout his career, and the result of his thoughts was an exciting, extremely frank and piercing book, the main idea of ​​which can be put in two short words: “Do not be a harm”.