Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and writer tells a story of a patient that changed his outlook on and the way he will see his future patients as neurologist forever. This Patients name is Rebecca. The Narrative starts off by giving the reader an idea of who Rebecca is. Dr. Sacks describes Rebecca as a very clumsy nineteen-year-old girl, just as Rebecca's grandmother describes her. The issue that Dr. Sacks has, is he often basis his opinion of most people including Rebecca, on their outside appearance. When Dr. Sacks was reviewing Rebecca's file one of the reports even referred to Rebecca as a "motor moron". Rebecca was raised by her grandmother, who expressed to Dr. Sacks her concerns for Rebecca. The grandmother informed Dr. Sacks of Rebecca’s inability to perform everyday activities. This is due to her left/right confusion which causes her to be unable to dress herself correctly. For example, Rebecca would often put her clothes on inside out, or backwards. These daily activities are really hard for Rebecca. However, Rebecca was very capable of feeling deep emotions. Such as, Rebecca’s deep care for her grandmother. All the negative things that Rebecca’s grandmother was telling Dr. Sacks about her were very noticeable and …show more content…
In fact, Dr. Sacks began to notice Rebecca’s pain did lessen with time. At one point Rebecca even sat down with Dr. Sacks and expressed how she thought it would be best if she didn’t attend sessions anymore. Because Rebecca felt the workshop and sessions were no longer a benefit to her, like they may have been for everyone else. Dr. Sacks thought that most of the patients that he helped could all be helped in the same way. But when Rebecca told Dr. Sacks the way she felt it helped Dr. Sacks realize that different people need different structures and not everyone can be placed in the same life situation to be