Henry Marsh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018, PB, 288pp, £8.99, 978-1474603874
I was in Waterstones perusing the books and spotted the paperback Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery in a carefully laid-out pile. Despite a reluctance to pick up medical autobiographies I decided to read the opening paragraph. This was an error on my part because, after reading the first sentence, I was instantly hooked! Admissions is a wonderful title as it carries a double entendre: the obvious being patient stories but a description too of Marsh’s own personal foibles. Marsh worked as a consultant neurosurgeon in …