British neurologist Oliver Sacks, who penned best-selling books like Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, revealed this week in a New York Times op-ed that cancer that started as a rare eye tumor has metastasized to his liver. The diagnosis is terminal.
Sacks offered a thought-provoking reflection on life in the poignant piece. Rather than focusing on the end, the physician concentrated on the positive, exemplifying the true resiliency of the human spirit.
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