Back in February, famous English neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, revealed to the New York Times that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer after a tumor (ocular melanoma) spread to his liver.
"I feel grateful that I have been granted nine years of good health and productivity since the original diagnosis, but now I am face to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third of my liver, and though its advance may be slowed, this particular sort of cancer cannot be halted."
On August 30, 2015, Sacks died from cancer. He was 82.
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After studying at The Queen's College, Oxford, Sacks moved to New York in 1965 to work for Beth Abraham Hospital, a chronic care facility. Here he worked with survivors of encephalitis lethargica. His findings and experiences using the new drug, levodopa, on these patients were later used in his most famous book, "Awakenings."
Afterwards, in 1966, he became a neurological consultant to a variety of New York City nursing homes and was a consulting neurologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center and continued to work as such until 1991.
Sacks worked as a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the New York School University of Medicine, and the Columbia University Medical Center.
