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**The 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist,** **International Bestseller, and a Kirkus** **Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!****“Marsh has retired, which means he’s taking a thorough inventory of his life. His reflections and recollections make __Admissions__ an even more introspective memoir than his first, if such a thing is possible.”** **―****__The New York Times__****"Consistently entertaining...Honesty is abundantly apparent here--a quality as rare and commendable in elite surgeons as one suspects it is in memoirists." ―__The Guardian__** **"Disarmingly frank storytelling...his reflections on death and dying equal those in Atul Gawande's excellent __Being Mortal__."** ―**__The Economist__** Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Following the publication of his celebrated __New York Times__ bestseller __Do No Harm__, Marsh retired from his full-time job in England to work pro bono in Ukraine and Nepal. In __Admissions__ he describes the difficulties of working in these troubled, impoverished countries and the further
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- Author
- Marsh, Henry
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group Ltd
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474603881
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (395 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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