I first learned about Henry Marsh through "Aneurysm," a chapter from his memoir that describes a particularly tense aneurysm surgery he performed: https://lithu

I first learned about Henry Marsh through "Aneurysm," a chapter from his memoir that describes a particularly tense aneurysm surgery he performed: https://lithub.com/aneurysm/ https://lithub.com/aneurysm/. His writing is taut and lyrical, and I strongly recommend him to anyone curious about the world of neurosurgery. > Cerebro­spinal fluid, known to doctors as CSF, as clear as liquid crystal, circulating through the strands of the arachnoid, flashes and glistens like silver in the microscope’s light. Through this I can see the smooth yellow surface of the brain itself, etched with minute red blood vessels–arterioles–which form beautiful branches like a river’s tributaries seen from space. Previous HN discussion on that chapter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9733730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9733730 I wish him well.