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Henry Marsh Quote: “Just as it is irresistible to save a life, it is also very difficult to tell somebody that I cannot save them.”

51. “Just as it is irresistible to save a life, it is also very difficult to tell somebody that I cannot save them.”

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Henry Marsh Quote: “But it seems to me now that it no longer matters if I never finish. I will try not to wait for the end, but I hope to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. It is enough that I am well for a little longer, that I have been lucky to be part of a family – past, present and future – that I can still be useful, that there is still work to be done.”

52. “But it seems to me now that it no longer matters if I never finish. I will try not to wait for the end, but I hope to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. It is enough that I am well for a little longer, that I have been lucky to be part of a family – past, present and future – that I can still be useful, that there is still work to be done.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “All the world wants to help Nepal and vast sums of aid have been lavished on the country, yet much of it seems to have disappeared without trace, leaving only faded signs and notice-boards behind.”

53. “All the world wants to help Nepal and vast sums of aid have been lavished on the country, yet much of it seems to have disappeared without trace, leaving only faded signs and notice-boards behind.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “Few – if any – of these patients would survive or emerge unscathed from whatever it was that had damaged their brains.”

54. “Few – if any – of these patients would survive or emerge unscathed from whatever it was that had damaged their brains.”

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Henry Marsh Quote: “It has never seemed a problem to me, only a source of awe, amazement and profound surprise that my consciousness, my very sense of self which feels as free as air, which was trying to read the book but instead was watching the clouds through the high windows, the self which is now writing these words, is in fact the electrochemical chatter of one hundred billion nerve cells.”

55. “It has never seemed a problem to me, only a source of awe, amazement and profound surprise that my consciousness, my very sense of self which feels as free as air, which was trying to read the book but instead was watching the clouds through the high windows, the self which is now writing these words, is in fact the electrochemical chatter of one hundred billion nerve cells.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “He was transferred on a Friday afternoon – never a good time to fall seriously ill.”

56. “He was transferred on a Friday afternoon – never a good time to fall seriously ill.”

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Henry Marsh Quote: “It used to be called angor animi – the anguish of the soul – the feeling that some people have, when they are having a heart attack, that they are about to die. Even now, more than thirty years later, I can see very clearly the dying man’s despairing expression as he looked at me as I turned away.”

57. “It used to be called angor animi – the anguish of the soul – the feeling that some people have, when they are having a heart attack, that they are about to die. Even now, more than thirty years later, I can see very clearly the dying man’s despairing expression as he looked at me as I turned away.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at.”

58. “Next morning I showed her brain scan to the juniors at.”

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Henry Marsh Quote: “My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child’s life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.”

59. “My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child’s life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “The humourless men seated round the table before me were part of the great industry of personal injury compensation, with its army of suave and accomplished lawyers and assured expert witnesses, rooting in a great trough of insurance premiums.”

60. “The humourless men seated round the table before me were part of the great industry of personal injury compensation, with its army of suave and accomplished lawyers and assured expert witnesses, rooting in a great trough of insurance premiums.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “You might think the operation has been a success because the patient leaves the hospital alive but if you saw them years later – as I often do – you would realize that the result of the operation was a human disaster.”

61. “You might think the operation has been a success because the patient leaves the hospital alive but if you saw them years later – as I often do – you would realize that the result of the operation was a human disaster.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “Patients become objects of fear as well as of sympathy. It is much easier to feel compassion for other people if you are not responsible for what happens to them.”

62. “Patients become objects of fear as well as of sympathy. It is much easier to feel compassion for other people if you are not responsible for what happens to them.”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “So what was better? To die within the next few years, or face a longer life of awful disability?”

63. “So what was better? To die within the next few years, or face a longer life of awful disability?”

— Henry Marsh

Henry Marsh Quote: “And yet it has been estimated that in the developed world, 75 per cent of our lifetime medical costs are incurred in the last six months of our lives. This is the price of hope, hope which, by the laws of probability, is so often unrealistic. And thus we often end up inflicting both great suffering on ourselves and unsustainable expense on society.”

64. “And yet it has been estimated that in the developed world, 75 per cent of our lifetime medical costs are incurred in the last six months of our lives. This is the price of hope, hope which, by the laws of probability, is so often unrealistic. And thus we often end up inflicting both great suffering on ourselves and unsustainable expense on society.”

— Henry Marsh

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