Admissions
Subtitle: life as a brain surgeon
By: Henry Marsh
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781250127266
Subjects: Health; Neurosurgeons; Biography
Description: Traces the author's post-retirement work as a surgeon and teacher in such remote areas as Nepal and Ukraine, illuminating the challenges of working in difficult regions and finding purposeful work after a career.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--Title-page verso.
Table of contents: title: The lock-keeper's cottage; title: London; title: Nepal; title: America; title: Awake craniotomy; title: the mind-brain problem; title: An elephant ride; title: Lawyers; title: Making things; title: Broken windows; title: Memory; title: Ukraine; title: Sorry; title: The red squirrel; title: Neither the sun nor death.