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...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...
...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...
...neurologist Roseman, the same thing is true. With 11 offices in four states, he is perpetually on the go. "I'm at rest in motion," says the doctor. "I surround myself with partners who provide the structure. My practice allows me to be creative." Roseman has accountants to do the bookkeeping. He starts his day at 6:30 with a hike and doesn't slow down until midnight. "Thank God for my add," he says. But, he admits, "had I listened to all the negative things that people said when I was growing up, I'd probably be digging ditches...
...kids who are hyperactive, the pattern is unmistakable, says Dr. Bruce Roseman, a pediatric neurologist with several offices in the New York City area, who has ADHD himself. "You say to the mother, 'What kind of personality did the child have as a baby? Was he active, alert? Was he colicky?' She'll say, 'He wouldn't stop -- waaah, waaah, waaah!' You ask, 'When did he start to walk?' One mother said to me, 'Walk? My son didn't walk. He got his pilot's license at one year of age. His feet haven't touched the ground since...
...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...