Word: neurologists
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Both as man and model, Oliver Sacks has obvious appeal. He is descended from a line of literary physicians-from Chekhov to Jonathan Miller, the late Lewis Thomas and, perhaps most significantly, the Russian neurologist A.R. Luria, whose neurohistorical writings helped introduce the public to the mysteries of the brain...
...doctor is in. it took more than 20 years, but after six successful books and numerous articles by and about him, neurologist Oliver Sacks, 61, has arrived (all 210 burly pounds of him) as the latest two-cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of letters. W.H. Auden detected the budding synthesis in Sacks' work in the early 1970s, when he declared Sacks' book Awakenings a masterpiece of medical literature. Hollywood grasped this high concept two decades later. Awakenings, the movie, starred Robin Williams as the dedicated doctor and Robert DeNiro as a patient temporarily freed...
...York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old-fashioned family doctor. There is also Sacks' open, encompassing style that welcomes the reader into his esoteric world. "A neurologist's life is not systematic," he writes, "but it provides him with novel and unexpected situations, which can be windows, peepholes, into the intricacy of nature-an intricacy that one might not anticipate from the ordinary course of life...
...stalks all football players, from the pros to the Pee Wees. Studies have claimed that 20% of high- school and college players suffer concussions in a season (apparently using a much broader definition of the injury than the N.F.L. does). Says Dr. Martin Samuels, a Harvard Medical School neurologist: "The loss of consciousness that occurs in football is so frequent it's frightening...
...such kids. Frequently reprimanded and tuned out, they lose any sense of self-worth and fall ever further behind in their work. More than a quarter are held back a grade; about a third fail to graduate from high school. ADHD kids are also prone to accidents, says neurologist Roseman. "These are the kids I'm going to see in the emergency room this summer. They rode their bicycle right into the street and didn't look. They jumped off the deck and forgot it was high...