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Oliver Sacks, M.D. - Academy of Achievement Oliver Sacks Books, Oliver Sacks, Brain And Nervous System, Life In New York, Environmental Portraits, Fantasy Authors, Nursing Homes, Book Cafe, Soyut Sanat Tabloları

Dr. Oliver Sacks was a practicing clinical neurologist and author, renowned for his fascinating true-life reports from the mysterious frontiers of neurological experience. Born and raised in London, he spent most of his life in New York City as a consulting neurologist for hospitals and nursing homes. There he treated men and women suffering from every possible disorder of the brain and nervous system, from well-known disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's to baffling conditions in…

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Oliver Sacks found it impossible to work in the abstract; only when he went to work in a hospital as a neurologist, interacting with patients, did he begin to fulfill his potential. His natural shyness disappeared in the face of the problem to be solved—the human problem, the difficulty or the damage inflicted on the individual by his or her condition. But he was equally fascinated by the brain itself. By involving the patient as much as possible in his own insatiable inquisitiveness about…

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pOliver Sacks medical storyteller extraordinaire in Manhattan on the edge of the Hudson 1990. By Ken ShungMPTVImages.com.p Oliver Sacks, The Good Doctor, Diary Entries, Ode To Joy, Medical Degree, Diary Entry, Old Motorcycles, Book Cafe, Terminal Illness

The world was saddened to learn of neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks’s terminal illness through a recent op-ed. With Sacks’s new autobiography out this month, Lawrence Weschler shares early stories and diary entries about Sacks, his close friend, before Sacks achieved worldwide fame.

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