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Previously, many rape victims had to wait for hours in a crowded waiting room before a physician would conduct a thorough forensic examination...
...another collection of wide-ranging essays that he calls "neurohistories," an anecdotal form that combines science, sympathy and old-fashioned storytelling. Where most clinicians study at arm's length a case of amnesia, say, or autism or agnosia (inability to recognize a word or a shape), the British-born physician tries to see through the eyes of the patient. "The study of disease," says Sacks, "demands the study of identity, the inner worlds that patients, under the spur of illness, create...
...Sacks is especially engaging at a time of highly specialized, technical and increasingly impersonal medicine. Who, these days, wouldn't want a warm, erudite physician, one who might prescribe a cat as well as a CAT scan? Who could resist bragging about My Doctor the Writer? Certainly not those whose lives he honors in his books...
...narrator and hero of The Cunning Man is Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the physician away when he approached the stricken celebrant. "We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science...
...series of articles on "The Toronto That Used to Be." In order to distinguish what he wants to tell her from what he wishes to keep to himself--including his misgivings about Father Hobbes' death--Hullah begins writing notes to himself in a case book, an old-fashioned physician's tool. As his jottings mount up, Hullah notes to himself, "I really must put on the brakes or this Case Book, which I in-tend only as an aide-mamoire, will turn into one of those German Bildungsromanen, about the growth of a human spirit...