Sacks began working as a consulting neurologist for Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care hospital where he encountered an extraordinary group of patients, many of whom had spent decades in strange, frozen states, like human statues, unable to initiate movement. In July of 2007, he was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, and he was also designated the university’s first Columbia University Artist. Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is a practicing neurologist.
Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. He earned his medical degree at Oxford University, and did residencies and fellowship work at Mt. Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England into a family of physicians and scientists.
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