Henry Marsh had spent four decades in neurosurgery trying to find a balance, as he puts it, between detachment and compassion. Then he became a patient himself, diagnosed with an incurable form of ...

In 'And Finally,' Dr. Henry Marsh comes to terms with his own cancer diagnosis : NPR's Book of the Day Early on in today's episode, NPR's Scott Simon asks Dr. Henry Marsh a question ...

Henry Marsh is an author and retired doctor, in whom, said The Economist, “neuroscience has found its Boswell.” In his most recent book, the physician becomes a patient, confronting a ...

Dr. Henry Marsh felt comfortable in hospitals — until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," he says. His book is And ...

When neurosurgeon Henry Marsh’s third memoir opens, he has volunteered to take part in a study that requires a scan of his brain. “It seemed a bit of a joke at the time,” he writes in “And ...

In ‘And Finally,’ Henry Marsh, a British neurosurgeon and writer, gets a lesson in empathy.

Henry Marsh, pioneering brain surgeon, navigates fear, powerlessness, and acceptance after a diagnosis of prostate cancer in his memoir ‘And Finally’ By Mary Ann Gwinn Globe Correspondent ...