Almost all people encounter events that will alter their life forever. According to Jacalyn Duffin, her essay summarizes how the Awakenings movie is an evidence to the aspiration of neurologist Oliver Sacks. It is a documentary based on how a group of patients that were contracted with an illness extreme case of Parkinsonism. All patients were harshly limited with movement and the ability of speech, although some gave signs of interaction, only that they were unable to completely express what they truly had wanted to say (Duffin, 2009). These were called postencephalitic syndromes, Edward Livingston Hunt, M.D.; Leon H. Cornwall, M.D. explain its definition “… In the parkinsonian syndrome occur the typical lesions of encephalitis, perivascular
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Dr. Sayer was the neurologist in which he did not know in the hospital he had been hired to would change his life eternally. All throughout the film, Dr. Sayer attempted to establish different approaches in order to awaken his patients, but he concluded that the human spirit is the most powerful medication that had impacted the patients that were affected of the illness. These mere simple gestures and actions lead to a psychological thinking in the patient wherein no drug could have done the same effect. The interaction between the patients with the nurses and the doctors had given them happiness. After an experience of pain that lasted a lifetime, a time of freedom to walk, to talk, to be normal, to not be staring blankly in the air all day long, a life they have been desiring but cannot receive. The magical drug used to “wake” them up, L-DOPA, only lasted for a short time, Oliver Sacks states in an online article what L-DOPA truly is, in early of 1967, a new drug was proclaimed for patients with conventional Parkinson's disease, a medication called L-DOPA it can modify chemicals in the brain called dopamine ─ dopamine is necessary for movement of the mind and body. But in that short time, moments of happiness, tranquility, and …show more content…
To lift up a person’s disposition can be of great help for anyone, being of service for the recovery of a friend or a family member is an ideal that anyone should be willing to do. As humans, the human spirit is able to do so much all at the same time. L-DOPA may have awakened the patients for a very short time, but it is the deep and immense care they still had for the patients and how that they tried everything in order to re awaken the patients just as how they were awoken once. The human intervention changed their lives forever, giving a moment of success and hopefulness to which this day we see as a miracle. For Dr. Sayer, his best achievement was not how he found out about L-DOPA, but how he realized in the end, patients need someone, and whether it may be a nurse, a doctor, or a friend, patients need someone for their healing, just as humans who would never wish to be alone. This immense human spectra that happened in that year still interests minds of today and has even created a mindset for nurses and doctors to be regularly checking up on their patients and see if they are happy or if they are contented, because humans sometimes fail to realize the simple things, in which making methods to pursue the happiness of each individual was the correct aspect all
Dr. Sayer was the neurologist in which he did not know in the hospital he had been hired to would change his life eternally. All throughout the film, Dr. Sayer attempted to establish different approaches in order to awaken his patients, but he concluded that the human spirit is the most powerful medication that had impacted the patients that were affected of the illness. These mere simple gestures and actions lead to a psychological thinking in the patient wherein no drug could have done the same effect. The interaction between the patients with the nurses and the doctors had given them happiness. After an experience of pain that lasted a lifetime, a time of freedom to walk, to talk, to be normal, to not be staring blankly in the air all day long, a life they have been desiring but cannot receive. The magical drug used to “wake” them up, L-DOPA, only lasted for a short time, Oliver Sacks states in an online article what L-DOPA truly is, in early of 1967, a new drug was proclaimed for patients with conventional Parkinson's disease, a medication called L-DOPA it can modify chemicals in the brain called dopamine ─ dopamine is necessary for movement of the mind and body. But in that short time, moments of happiness, tranquility, and …show more content…
To lift up a person’s disposition can be of great help for anyone, being of service for the recovery of a friend or a family member is an ideal that anyone should be willing to do. As humans, the human spirit is able to do so much all at the same time. L-DOPA may have awakened the patients for a very short time, but it is the deep and immense care they still had for the patients and how that they tried everything in order to re awaken the patients just as how they were awoken once. The human intervention changed their lives forever, giving a moment of success and hopefulness to which this day we see as a miracle. For Dr. Sayer, his best achievement was not how he found out about L-DOPA, but how he realized in the end, patients need someone, and whether it may be a nurse, a doctor, or a friend, patients need someone for their healing, just as humans who would never wish to be alone. This immense human spectra that happened in that year still interests minds of today and has even created a mindset for nurses and doctors to be regularly checking up on their patients and see if they are happy or if they are contented, because humans sometimes fail to realize the simple things, in which making methods to pursue the happiness of each individual was the correct aspect all