Confessions Of A Brain Surgeon (BBC2)
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What's the difference between a bus driver and a brain surgeon? None at all, it turns out, if Henry Marsh is typical.
Henry is a retired neurosurgeon who spends much of his free time in Ukraine, a country he loves, helping out in the operating theatre at Lviv hospital. Sometimes, when the senior medic needs a tea break, he steps in for a spot of impromptu brain surgery.
That's very like the driver of a horse-drawn Victorian omnibus who, legend has it, spent his days off riding buses driven by his mates... having a 'busman's holiday'.
