Oliver Sacks: My Healthcare Hero

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My healthcare hero is Oliver Sacks, he is a scientist, neurologist, educator and psychiatrist. Oliver was born July 9th ,1933 in London England, there he studied at queens college, Oxford, then became a neurology professor at Albert Einstein college of medicine. In his time he has written a few books on health and some of his experiences in his work, all of which included the weird or unusual symptoms that his patients had. One of his patients had a disorder that caused him to mistake his wife for a particular hat constantly, and another one suffered from constant migraines. eventually he discovered that his patient had a tumor in his head causing the frequent migraines. As a neurologist his job was to study the brain

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