And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

"He examines the underpinnings of science, the limitations of memory, and the nature of consciousness itself."

"Even so, some of his observations about medicine feel as though they shouldn't be as much of a revelation to him as they seem to be ..."

"Marsh also deftly weaves in other issues — his love of nature, his grandchildren and his unending fascination with the mysteries of the human brain."

"One couldn't wish for a better guide around the ruins, even if it seems to the author that many other things are also crumbling around him, and not only the ones he built himself."

"As Marsh is at pains to explain, doctors do not know as much as their patients want them to, and can only predict in terms of statistical probabilities."

"And Finally is very much a memoir of enlightenment; the humbling, late in life, of a man of great skill and status ..."

"And Finally offers a tender, at times apologetic account of a doctor-turned-patient whose chronic disease and awareness of the inevitability of death are compellingly navigated: first denial and anxiety, then acceptance and coping, ultimately gratitude for every moment gifted."

"There's no false comfort here."

"I was wrong: given its subject – broadly, death and disease – the book is unexpectedly fun, and the author pretty much irresistibly likable."

"But the book is far more than a 'how to' manual."