Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)

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Henry Marsh ( Henry Thomas Marsh ; born March 5, 1950 in Oxford ) is a British neurosurgeon .

Life

Marsh graduated from Dragon School in Oxford and Westminster School in London. He studied economics, politics and philosophy at Oxford and then medicine at the Royal Free Medical School in London. Marsh then worked as a neurosurgeon at St. George's University Hospital London . He is a specialist in the removal of brain tumors. From the Royal College of Surgeons , he was appointed in 1984 Fellow appointed. At the University of Washington in Seattle , he was a professor of neurosurgery. In addition, since the 1990s he has often been in the with a foundation he set upUkraine active. There he mainly operates on people who would otherwise have no medical help.

His work has been featured in two documentaries: Your Life in Their Hands (2003) and The English Surgeon (2007). The latter won the US television Emmy Award .

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Marsh was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 2014 he wrote a book about his work as a neurosurgeon, in which he self-critically addressed optimism, medical errors and failure. In 2015 he retired as a neurosurgeon.

Fonts

  • Do no harm . Orion, London 2014 ISBN 978-0297869870
    • About life and death: a brain surgeon tells of healing, hope and failure . From the English by Katrin Behringer, DVA, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-421-04678-9
  • Admission. A Life in Brain Surgery . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017

literature

  • Frederik Jötten: "Surgery is mountaineering for cowards", Interview, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 30, 2016, p. 24f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mr Henry Marsh CBE Consultant Neurosurgeon ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stgeorges.nhs.uk
  2. ↑ The British brain surgeon who joined the fight against corruption in Ukraine , The Guardian, September 12, 2014, accessed May 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Directory of newly appointed British medalists , The London Gazette, June 12, 2010, accessed May 11, 2015
  4. ↑ Frederik Jötten: Every surgeon has a small cemetery within himself. Das Magazin , Tamedia , Zurich June 13, 2015, pages 16–21
  5. ^ Operating on the open brain , review by Michael Lange in Deutschlandradio Kultur on May 8, 2015, accessed May 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsh, Henry Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford