The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Lesson Plan

Oliver Sacks was born in London, England, in 1933. The son of a surgeon and a general practitioner, Sacks attended a rural boarding school during World War II to avoid the threat of air raids. He earned his undergraduate and medical degree at The Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1958. In 1959, he accepted an internship at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, then a residency as a neurologist at UCLA in 1962. He took to weightlifting in his college days, and in 1961 he set a California state record for performing a full squat with 600 pounds on his shoulders. After moving to the Bronx in 1965, Sacks was hired as a staff neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital. He lived and worked as a practicing...