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Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center
Chair of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx
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Mark Mehler
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FROM Mark Mehler
To the Point
Remembering Oliver Sacks, the Poet Laureate of Modern Medicine Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival Photo by Luigi Novi The man with the seemingly insatiable curiosity for life left it on Sunday. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks died at the age of 82 of cancer. He revealed this February that a tumor had metastasized to his liver, and yet continued to write with…
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