Oliver Sacks is a neurologist and award-winning author. Dr. Oliver Sacks attended medical school in England, Oxford to be precise. He has lived in New York since 1965 where he practices neurology. Dr. Oliver Sacks began working for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx as a neurologist. He worked with patients with a wide variety of medical problems and was able to put his skills to the test. He was a professor of neurology at Columbia Medical Center from 2007 to 2012. These patients became the main characters in his book Awakenings. Oliver Saks has become well known for his books about case studies that baffle the medical world. He has written other books about the lives of colorblind and deaf people and about his experiences as a doctor. He also wrote an autobiography in which he talks about his struggle with face blindness. Throughout his career, he has written many famous and critically acclaimed books. Sack's work appears widely in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Summary: An Anthropologist on Mars tells the story of seven case studies that are medical mysteries of sorts. The first case study concerns Mr. I, a painter who has completely lost his color vision. Mr. I was in a horrible car accident that left him completely color blind. He suffered from a horrific brain injury also known as cerebral achromatopsia. The book continues to talk about the struggles he went through with not being able to see color as a painter. The second tale tells the story of Greg, a man suffering from a huge brain tumor. Greg left his parents' house when he started acting out and using a lot of drugs and joined the Hare Krishna. He slowly began to lose sight that the Hare Krishna attract... middle of paper ...... lives there and was able to describe the struggles they faced. Sacks' empathy used throughout the book made me feel real compassion for people with disabilities: they have truly amazing skills. Some of the weaknesses of this book were that each of the stories were a bit long towards the end. I felt like by the end of each case study Sacks was repeating the same ideas more than once and it was getting a little too repetitive. Sacks also inserts his opinion throughout the book, which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing, it just became repetitive as the stories progressed. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book. It was very interesting to learn about seven different people and their lives. It was a very easy read and when I picked up the book it was very hard to put it down because I was very interested in all the different people and their studies..