Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who
Mistook His Wife For a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by
compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre
neurological conditions, has died. He was 82. Sacks died Sunday at his home in
New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. Sacks had announced in February
2015 that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his
liver. As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a
writer's eye and found publishing gold. In his best-selling 1985 book, he
described a man who really did mistake his wife's face for his hat while
visiting Sacks' office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he
saw. Sacks himself suffered from prosopagnosia, or face blindness. He described
his inability to recognize faces to
Lesley Stahl for "60 Minutes" in 2012. "People do think you may
be snubbing them or stupid, or mad, or inattentive," he said. "That's
why it's so important to recognize what one has and to admit it." His own
impairment no doubt helped Sacks connect with his patients, even those lost for
years to illness.
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