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

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all. 

I enjoyed this book more in the beginning than what I did towards the end; the further I got into it, the more I understood why people had to put it down due to Marsh's personality.
Despite this, I thoroughly enjoyed the information on the surgery and conditions/diseases he worked with, as well as his honest, heartwarming but equally heart-wrenching views and positions within the NHS and his work in Ukraine. 
This book dropped from a solid 4.5/4.75 to a 3.75 purely due to his attitude on substance abuse and "obese" people. Certain sentences actually hurt to read, which was a shame because it only became evident in the last few chapters. This and the repetitive nature of his mentioning of his own surgeries and the glimmering spotlight he chose to shine on the private medical sector.
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