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Re:Oliver Sacks has died by jane_is_here on Sunday August 30, 2015 @06:16PM (#10144644)
He contibuted more to literature, if it can be called that, than to neurology. His writings were akin to the breathless articles in Wired on the "AMAZING DIGITAL FUTURE".

If you want to read real neurology, as opposed to the neurology case studies for the unwashed masses that Sacks churned out, Lord Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System ( now in the 12th edition ) is a classic. http://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198569381.001...

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Re:Oliver Sacks has died by amyjess on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:55AM (#10147073)
> churned out

I think this might explain why what Sacks did was important and not something simply "churned out": https://xkcd.com/397/

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