This book focuses on how the doctor becomes a patient himself with advanced stage prostate cancer. In general, most medical professionals make the worst patients and I can make this declaration as a medical professional myself. There always a struggle with the vulnerability of being the patient after years of helping others. It's easier to see the struggles in others probably more so to avoid acknowledging our own issues.
pickI tear through Marsh's books in a few hours, and this book is no exception. This book is about his diagnosis of prostate cancer, becoming a patient as a doctor, and coming to grips with mortality. It was interesting reading after What Doctors Feel; Marsh is a retired neurosurgeon and reflects on his whole career and discovers a new perspective on medicine.
pickNow retired from neurosurgery, Henry Marsh confronts his own mortality and fallibility in his third book. As with his other memoirs, Marsh meanders through concepts of consciousness, hospital design, and the relationship between doctor and patient.
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death | 
