Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks is the man who deals with the manifold of patients with disorders and mental disabilities throughout this story. He has much experience with patients of all different psychological conditions, being a clinical neurologist. Sacks deals with different conditions of the different hemispheres and regions of the right side of the brain. Sacks enables readers to comprehend and understand the neurological world on the basis of simple and easily comprehended words and phrases. Different from many other books that deal with mental cases and patients, this book allows readers to understand without using many of the terms people without a background in psychology and neurology would not understand. From a reader with not much experience with
Dr. P’s perception is off and can make out color and shape, but not s picture as a whole. This is the man that mistakes his wife for a hat, which can allude to the title of this novel. I believe this title was very clever because it embodies the themes of this story in a both literal, and figurative way. A man mistaking his own wife for a hat may cause a sense of sadness among readers. This title is a perfect representation of the story and how neurological disorders can cause such upsetting things.
Sacks connects to each of his patients in a beautifully personal way that I truly believe is most important when you are working with people in order to help them. He does not just face their disorder, go by the book and help them cope and eventually cure, he takes it to a whole other personal level. He feels for his patience and makes sure they’re receiving the best care they can get. He checks up on them and truly brings the sense of care and friendship to their lives, while being their psychological mentor.
This persona in Sacks helped relieve the patients from their mental struggles.To relate this to my personal life, I can relate the importance of caring doctors to my
Her feelings and explanations truly terrified both her, myself, and my entire family. We just wanted answers. We took her to a neurologist, a cardiologist, an alternative medicine doctor, her regular pediatrician, an allergist, a chiropractor (for
“back pains”), all before going to a special doctor that deals with patients with Pots
Syndrome. She got MRIs, EEGs, bloodwork, lyme tests, and table tests. Each of the doctors before her Pots Doctor left her and my family not only with no answers, but with no personal care for my little sister. These doctors did not remember who she was, or even her issues. They made my mom endlessly explain these unexplainable symptoms, which was very frustrating. The final doctor who she saw was finally the one that had the biggest impact on her healing process and actually began it. This doctor gave my family, myself and my little sister the hope for answers and an end to this unexplainable disease. She made my sister comfortable to go into her office and always remembered her face. This doctor took the time to always check on her and take extra care in her.
You can tell this doctor truly had a passion to help my sister and my family, just like how
Sacks did in this book with his own patients. Him being able to have a