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Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

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47 points barry-cotter | 4 comments | 09 Dec 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rendaw ◴[09 Dec 25 16:59 UTC] No.46207335[source]▶
Subtitle

> The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

TLDR

> after her grandmother’s death...she becomes decisive, joining a theatre group.... in the transcripts... [she] never joins a theatre group or emerges from her despair.

AFAICT the quote above is the only thing directly relevant to the title.

From what I read, skimming through the article, it paints Sacks as being a delusion driven emotional romantic and was practicing some sort of cult medicine, but I can't tell how much of that is reality and how much is NYT's ridiculously flowery embellishing of everything.

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1. AdamN ◴[09 Dec 25 17:11 UTC] No.46207513[source]▶
Just a nit but it's the New Yorker, not the NYT.
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3. cryzinger ◴[09 Dec 25 18:06 UTC] No.46208270[source]▶
Also worth noting that the New Yorker published a lot of essays from Sacks when he was alive. So there's a sort of meta thing happening here with a biography of one of their famous contributors.
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4. AdamN ◴[11 Dec 25 09:11 UTC] No.46229214[source]▶
Yeah he was the consummate neurotic New Yorker writing for the New Yorker and now in death he has been woven directly into the New Yorker.