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Henry Marsh

Neurosurgeon and writer

United Kingdom · b. 1950

British neurosurgeon, for three decades a consultant at St George's Hospital in London, and the author of Do No Harm, Admissions and And Finally. Diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in early 2020, with a seventy-five per cent probability of recurrence within five years, he wrote And Finally (2022) about crossing over from doctor to patient. He remained alive and in remission at the time of this pass, which makes him the least terminal of the six people here.

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Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret read 45 other answers →

I should have known that I might not like what my brain scan showed, just as I should have known that the symptoms of prostatism that were increasingly bothering me were just as likely to be caused by cancer as by the benign prostatic enlargement that happens in most men as they age. But I continued to think that illness happened to patients and not to doctors, even though I was now retired. Twenty months after I had my brain scanned, I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. I had had typical symptoms for years, steadily getting worse, but it took me a long time before I could bring myself to ask for help. I thought I was being stoical when in reality I was being a coward. I simply couldn’t believe the diagnosis at first, so deeply ingrained was my denial.

Recorded Edited extract from And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, published by Vintage, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗

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