Oliver Sacks was a neurologist and a wonderful author of medical narratives like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. If you haven’t read it, do! You are reading this book, so you presumably like tales about strange medical conditions. All of his writing makes Sacks out to be a compassionate, smart, funny man, which is a view supported by his colleagues and patients and all who knew him. In his nonfiction account Awakenings, Sacks discusses how he “awakened” some of the longtime sufferers of EL. I will let him set the scene because I have nothing on him in the “writing nonfiction about
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