The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING, award-winning and candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. 'An astonishing glimpse into this stressful career' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? This memoir gives astonishingly candid insight into the career of one of the country's leading neurosurgeons, and into the countless dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Now in paperback.
A fascinating look inside the head of a man whose job it is to fiddle around in ours. He acknowledges that surgeons are arrogant, that they play God, but that they are also afflicted by despair, sorrow and doubt. He is scathing on NHS bureaucracy and his picture of doctors doing their best but basically flailing in the dark made me respect the profession more
