Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

I worked as a neurosurgeon for over forty years. I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. Like all doctors, I had to find a balance between compassion and detachment. This was sometimes very difficult. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like when what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This is the story of how I became a patient.