Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

by Henry Marsh

We have achieved most as surgeons when our patients recover completely and forget us completely.

One quarter of the blood pumped every minute by the heart, after all, goes to the brain. Thought is an energy-intensive process.

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

Hope is beyond price and the pharmaceutical companies, which are run by businessmen not altruists, price their products accordingly.