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Germany was a literate nation and yet succumbed to the most irrational sort of racial prejudice. We are largely illiterate and it is much easier to sway our masses by rousing their basest instincts. Distort facts, inject dollops of pride in ...more
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Henry Marsh
“Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.”
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh
“Most medical students go through a brief period when they develop all manner of imaginary illnesses – I myself had leukaemia for at least four days – until they learn, as a matter of self-preservation, that illnesses happen to patients, not to doctors.”
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh
“When I tell a patient that I think I should do their operation under local anaesthetic they usually look a little shocked. In fact the brain cannot itself feel pain since pain is a phenomenon produced within the brain.”
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain Surgeon

Henry Marsh
“We have been most successful, however, when our patients return to their homes and get on with their lives and never need to see us again. They are grateful, no doubt, but happy to put us and the horror of their illness behind them. Perhaps they never quite realized just how dangerous the operation had been and how lucky they were to have recovered so well. Whereas the surgeon, for a while, has known heaven, having come very close to hell.”
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain Surgeon

Henry Marsh
“Some of my operations are great triumphs and tremendous. But they're only triumphs because there are also disasters”
Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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