As a neurosurgeon I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering death and cancer. But rarely if ever did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient myself.. As a retired brain surgeon Henry Marsh thought he understood illness but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and