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As a brain surgeon, Henry Marsh knows every choice carries risks. Here, he tells Zoë Beaty what happens when the doctor survives and the patient does not, how his own cancer diagnosis made him see things differently, and why more medical professionals need to face up to their mistakes and say sorry
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ne afternoon not so long ago, I was cycling home from the hospital when my bike chain snapped. I had been teaching that day – a regular occurrence with a regular route home that, on this particular day, I then had to change. I don’t believe in providence, but what happened next was certainly quite the coincidence: I heard my name called and turned around to see Tina, the mother of a patient I had once treated. A patient that I failed.
