Oliver Sacks
Golan Marom Eng 120 Final Draft Oliver Sacks As a world renowned novelist /neurologist, Oliver Sacks is set apart from his contemporaries through his unique relationship with his patients. ... For Sacks, his readiness to sense humor in his own errors is truly what stands him out from the crowd. ... A professor by nature and physician by nurture, Sacks cannot be mistaken for anyone else. ... From infancy, Sacks had already been predisposed to the scientific realm. According to the Oaxaca Journal, as a young adolescent, the young scientist had memorized the periodic table and understood DNA sequencing (Sacks, 75). The young Sacks would work as diligently in his lab, as would his fellow peers on the baseball field. ... Sacks has been enthusiastic about science thought out his whole life and everyday is a new mystery waiting to be unraveled. A scientist by nature, Sacks was born with a white coat and a stethoscope around his neck. Sacks deeply analyses everything and anything scientifically (Sacks, 53). ... For this pteridologist, the trip to Oaxaca happed to be far more interesting then his fern foray (Sacks 79). ... Sacks allows himself to be amused by the simplest of things, such as the composition of cochineal red dye or cacao from the coco plant (Sacks 27). ... At one point Sacks was so self conscious, that he questioned his own appearance, inferring that his face looked rather stupid. In Oaxaca Journal the pteridologist makes reference: “I sometimes think I have a stupid face myself, though most people seem to feel it is a kindly one” (Sacks 123). Far from a narcissist, the professor speaks highly of theoretical physics with IQs in excess of 160 (Sacks 83).