Henry’s retirement blues

Late in his career, 'our Henry' has established a glowing reputation on the international stage both as a riveting storyteller with Do No Harm and as an eloquent performer on YouTube and TV (Your Life in their Hands and The English Surgeon). Both Ian McEwan and The Economist ventured that neurosurgery had found its Boswell. In his new book Admissions, Henry is in reflective mode as he struggles with retirement, loss of professional identity, lost opportunities to put matters right and post-retirement blues. The book starts with his suicide kit and ends with his ambition not to wait for the end, but to be ready to leave, booted and spurred, when it comes. In between, there is a compelling mix of poignant patient vignettes interspersed with laments about his own clinical failings, the state of medicine at home and abroad, and fleeting observations on consciousness and the hereafter.

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