Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was apparently a doctor who mistook his patients for fictional characters. The celebrated neurologist who taught generations to see the poetry in damaged brains invented a lot of that poetry himself.
According to a devastating n…
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