Written: 10 October 2016
Excerpts from Do No Harm - Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery:
+ The spinal cord is more vulnerable than the brain.
+ Often it is better to leave the patient's disease to run its natural course and not to operate at all.
+ The Ukrainians give flowers to each other on any social occasion.
+ Having spent six months watching surgeons operating I decided that this was what I should do. I found its controlled and altruistic violence deeply appealing.
+ The brain cannot itself feel pain since pain is a phenomenon produced within the brain. If my patients' brains could feel me touching them they would need a second brain somewhere to register the sensation.
+ It is both a compliment and a curse when your colleagues ask you to treat them. All surgeons feel anxious when treating colleagues.
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