Henry Marsh: Thinking fast and slow

Biography

Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon celebrated for a work of literature. His candid reflections on the risky business of poking his nose into other people’s heads, Do No Harm: Studies of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, was published to huge acclaim in 2014. It proved that there are exceptions to the general rule that surgeons are born arrogant, learn arrogance, or have arrogance thrust upon them. He is a consultant at St George’s Hospital in London who remembers his mistakes more vividly than his successes. He has refreshingly little time for bureaucratic interference, however well meant it may be.