Do no harm / Henry Marsh.
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SoundPublisher: [Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio, 2015Copyright date: ℗2015Copyright date: ©2014Description: 8 CDs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audiodiscISBN: 9781622317431; 1622317432Other title: Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgerySubject(s): Marsh, Henry, 1950- | Neurosurgeons -- England -- Anecdotes | Brain -- Surgery -- AnecdotesGenre/Form: Audiobooks. Narrated by Jim Barclay.Summary: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING. Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, DO NO HARM ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks. With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. Henry Marsh studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor - DVD | Wundowie Wundowie General Stacks | 617.481 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111065094995 |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING. Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, DO NO HARM ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks. With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. Henry Marsh studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1984 and was appointed Consultant Neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's/St George's Hospital in London in 1987.
Narrated by Jim Barclay.
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