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Your Life In My Hands – Brain Surgeon Henry Marsh on His Life’s Work

Henry Marsh in conversation with Erica Wagner

57 mins watch time

Posted August 2020

Medicine, Science

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands? How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong? Henry Marsh spent four decades operating on the human brain. He knows, intimately, the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life’s most agonising decisions.