Do No Harm

What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason?How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong?In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to 'do no harm' holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, Henry Marsh must make agonising decisions, often in the face of