Henry Marsh's Do No Harm is a refreshingly honest and personal account of the world of surgery and medicine that is often so hard to portray in a truthful and really representative fashion of the world of the NHS. The book's chapters each trace a different case that Dr Marsh has met during his time as a Medical Student, Junior Doctor and Consultant and each one is simultaneously intriguing from a medical standpoint and touching in a uniquely human manner. Throughout the book it may almost seem self destructive that Dr Marsh includes so many of his own faults, mistakes and lapses in error but it is from these experiences that the reader can begin to gauge that the seemingly faultless and mechanical system we perceive to be healthcare is often in fact a touch-and-go race between Doctors and life's closing window.
As gripping and tense as an action thriller and painfully honest 'Do No Harm' perfectly illustrates the delicate and difficult skillset required by Surgeons and how devastatingly things can go fatally wrong even when everything is done right. The book will leave the reader with a profound respect for the work done by Neurosurgeons and an immense sense of the underappreciation this job must entail. Darkly witty and elegantly written 'Do No Harm' is compelling and sensational in it's ability to draw a readers interest into each case and event, bringing them right into the depth of the operating theatre.
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