Tag: neurosurgery

  • If I could talk to Paul Kalanithi

    After sobbing wretchedly through the last chapter and the epilogue of “When Breath Becomes Air,” I sat for a while in silence, trying to absorb the weight of this incredible person’s life. As an aspiring physician-scientist who can’t stop turning over unanswerable questions, his words resonated with me. But there was one thing I couldn’t…

  • A Doctor’s Solemn Oath: What it means to ‘Do No Harm’

    From cover to cover, Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm offers a raw look into the life of a neurosurgeon. This memoir gripped me, as both a reader and aspiring physician. It changed how I view doctors, the healthcare system, and the brain itself. Marsh writes with brutal honesty about tragic mishaps, the crippling guilt surgeons…