Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Electa Author: Leong Choon Cheong

Author: Leong Choon Cheong

in American Studies from the University of Minnesota

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Electa Author: Leong Choon CheongWhat is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading