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As a physician, I've always enjoyed reading about the journeys that people take to become doctors. Sacks, the author of Awakenings, has written a book unlike his others. This book doesn't deal so much with his patients as it does his own life. As you can see by the man sitting on the motorcycle on the cover, his story isn't what you may expect. His recent announcement that he has terminal cancer makes the book all-the-more affecting and eye-opening.
Sacks vividly describes his younger years, before medical school, where he rode his bike through California valleys, tried various drugs, and struggled with his mother's issues with his homosexuality. The scenes are brilliantly described and, at times, painfully poignant. Often lonely and nomadic, the young Sacks displays the introspective and sympathetic traits that would ultimately (I believe) push him to become a ground-breaking physician, but also damage his psyche in ways I had never realized. He struggled with being falsely accused of having inappropriate relations with patients, causing him to be celibate for 35 years, and feels slighted by peers for not supporting his writing.
Overall, "On the Move" is a fascinating autobiography by one of the greatest physician authors of our time. If this book interests you, then I highly recommend two other books by physicians. Anthony Youn's In Stitches is a riveting memoir about medical school, at times hilarious, touching, and inspired. Sampson Davis's Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R. is a fascinating look at medical care in the inner city.
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67 of 71 people found the following review helpful
Oliver Sacks is one of the most important thinkers of our time. His prior works have offered considerable insight about and needed compassion toward the immensely broad spectrum of the human condition: from memory loss and divergent modes of mental processing to profound sensory limitations. Above all, he has enabled us to walk in others' shoes and imagine perceiving the world from a wholly different perspective. Not only is he a compassionate and thorough physician, he is also an extraordinary writer. His prose is compelling, vivid, and persuasive. Yet in his intellectual discourse, it is easy to focus on his mind and think of him as purely a thinker, rather than as a complete person. On the Move, a brilliant autobiography, sheds considerable insight into the rest of his life, showing his 'human' side, including passions, strengths and weaknesses. It is a fascinating chronicle of a young man who discovers his sexual orientation during a very prejudiced age, who struggles with a drinking problem, who values the life of the body (working out) as well as the mind, and who loves roaming free, whether on his motorcycle, running or scuba diving. At last, the error in the film Awakenings, in which the character supposed to be Sacks is shown as timid and barely attuned to life, is corrected. Sacks is certainly not timid, and despite medical challenges, has shown himself to be very much full of life. It is society that has been too timid, and at long last needs to embrace diversity.
Paul Halpern, author of Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
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I fell in love with Oliver Sacks and his writing after my parents gave me "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" this past Christmas. Ever since, I've been hooked and can't get enough. I've now read "Hat", "Hallucinations," " Musicophilia," and now his autobiography. His writing is so elegant yet lucid, that it feels as though I'm reading fiction at times. This new book of his is no different, and may perhaps be the most fascinating of them all.
To say that he has lived life to the fullest would be a severe understatement; he has filled his life with enough adventure and excitement to occupy four lifetimes, and he is still going (and may he continue to do so for many years, in spite of his cancer). His openness and honesty in "On the Move" is spectacular, moving, and one feels as though he is having a fireside conversation with Sacks himself. There is so much I never knew about him, so much that I almost found hard to believe! (You'll understand this as you read through the book). What a man, what a life!
As a student who will be starting his first year at medical school this August, I can say that I aspire to be half the man that Oliver Sacks has become. He is part of the reason that I have fallen even more in love with the medical field, particularly neurology and psychiatry. There is much to learn from this book, regardless of one's profession, interests, and background. There is so much more to say, but I'm no wordsmith as Sacks is, so I'll let you read it for yourself. It is my hope that you enjoy every page, sentence, and carefully crafted word that Oliver Sacks has used to print his life onto paper. As Albert Schweitzer said, "my life is my argument," and no doubt Sacks will embody this message until the end.
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