When (Awakenings) came out it was widely dismissed. Sacks when the physicians was still relatively unknown. He began by asking Weschler why he was drawn to writing about Dr. Goldman had a chance to speak to Lawrence Weschler about his relationship with Sacks this fall, at the Vancouver Writers' Festival. Weschler's memoir of their friendship And How are you Dr. The book was adapted into a 1990 film starring Robin Williams. He treated them using a drug for Parkinson's L-Dopa, which led them to "awaken" although it was a temporary reaction and some later experienced uncontrollable side effects. The book, which was published in 1973 recounted Sacks' time working with seemingly catatonic patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who had survived the 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Sacks book Awakenings, he was keen to do an in-depth profile of him, although at the time, the book had not been widely read, and Sacks was not well-known. He was a newly-hired writer at The New Yorker. Writer Lawrence Weschler first met author and neurologist Oliver Sacks in 1981. Oliver Sacks is called 'And How are You, Dr. Lawrence Weschler's biographical memoir Dr.
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