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Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks

2024/7/5
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Oliver Sacks: 我的职业生涯并非一帆风顺。最初在实验室从事科研工作时，由于意外事故导致实验数据丢失，最终被建议转为临床医生。在Beth Abraham医院工作期间，我接触到许多患有脑炎后遗症的病人，他们的状况与当时医学界的观点相冲突，这促使我坚持自己的观察和记录。L-DOPA药物的治疗效果显著，但这让我意识到单纯的量化数据不足以描述患者的恢复过程。政府要求我使用量化指标记录患者的恢复情况，但我认为这不足以反映患者的真实体验，因此我拒绝了这种方式。我开始尝试以更生动的方式记录患者的经历，这与当时医学期刊的风格相冲突。A.R. Luria的案例研究方法对我影响很大，他的作品激励我坚持自己的写作风格。我的作品《觉醒》出版后，虽然受到一些文学评论家的好评，但医学界却对其反应冷淡，他们批评我的作品缺乏数据，过于注重文学性。但A.R. Luria对我的作品给予了肯定，这给了我继续写作的信心。我始终认为医生不仅要诊断疾病，更要关注疾病对患者的影响及其应对方式，每个患者都有其独特的故事。 Robert Krulwich: 奥利弗·萨克斯最初的科研经历并不顺利，一场事故让他失去了重要的实验数据，最终被建议转为临床工作。在Beth Abraham医院，他接触到患有脑炎的病人，这成为他日后写作的灵感来源。L-DOPA药物的成功应用让他意识到单纯的量化数据不足以描述患者的恢复过程。医学界对萨克斯作品《觉醒》的批评主要集中在其缺乏数据和过于注重文学性上，但萨克斯认为自己作品中的描述并不冗余，反而不足以充分展现患者的体验。A.R. Luria对《觉醒》的肯定，给了萨克斯继续写作的信心。萨克斯的医生身份与作家身份并不矛盾，他认为两者可以互补，他既能胜任医生的职责，也能以其独特的视角记录患者的故事，这构成了他独特的写作风格和遗产。

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First aired back in 2013, we originally released this episode to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our favorite human beings, Oliver Sacks. To celebrate, his good friend, and our former co-host Rober Krulwich, asks the good doctor to look back, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career.

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