A review by chidimmadesiree
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

4.0

The best part about my reading experience was having a brief understanding of what Dr. Marsh was talking about due to learning about the brain in my anatomy class at the time of reading this. But honestly I loved the way this book gave you an overview of a brain condition but made it actually engaging by adding anecdotes. You got to see inside the mind of a neurosurgeon who constantly has the lives of patients in his hands and the deaths on his conscious. Dr. Marsh had his flaws and biases that he fully let show in this book which I thought was commendable because I saw him as a human being. Reading from a neurosurgeon is so interesting because you get to see the many stereotypes they represent on paper: God-complex, hard worker, arrogant, but also them being vulnerable and recognizing that they don’t know it all. Books by doctors never cease to amaze me.