Neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for inspiring the movie Awakenings, dies at 82

... Animal Hospital to remove his two extra legs. Dr. Oliver Sacks speaks about Alzheimer's disease to an audience at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. Oct. 26, 2005. Sacks, a neurologist and writer, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Dr. Oliver Sacks, ...

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