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Jim Hamilton: My great friend
Oliver Sacks
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| 111. Jim Hamilton: My great friend | 363 | 01:13 | |
| 112. The beginning of my interest in neurology and case histories | 310 | 01:51 | |
| 113. Sleeping on fungus in the Central Valley | 279 | 01:30 | |
| 114. Working to fund my travelling around the USA | 278 | 00:31 | |
| 115. Work with Feinstein and Levin on Parkinson's disease | 282 | 01:24 | |
| 116. Announcing myself to the world of neurology | 289 | 02:26 | |
| 117. My first real interactions with patients | 291 | 02:19 | |
| 118. 'Arnold Friedman took a shine to me' | 280 | 00:36 | |
| 119. Arnold Friedman's strange turn | 392 | 02:41 | |
| 120. The final writing of Migraine | 373 | 06:00 |
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I remember with great affection my... my friend Jim Hamilton. Jim Hamilton had also been an ardent motorcyclist and he’d had a hideous accident with compound fractures of both legs, was in bed for 18 months but in those 18 months he made himself a powerful mathematician. He discovered a talent for mathematics and… but the two of us got on well together and... like all of us there, Jim did everything to excess. He... he had sudden dangerous drinking bouts and one of them killed him. He got pancreatitis, the pancreas burst and peritonitis and... and he died. He was only – I don’t know – 30 or 32. We were all that sort of age. His daughter is one of my many godchildren. I... I don’t have any children, I have about a dozen godchildren including your child.
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was born in England. Having obtained his medical degree at Oxford University, he moved to the USA. There he worked as a consultant neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital where in 1966, he encountered a group of survivors of the global sleepy sickness of 1916-1927. Sacks treated these patients with the then-experimental drug L-Dopa producing astounding results which he described in his book Awakenings. Further cases of neurological disorders were described by Sacks with exceptional sympathy in another major book entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat which became an instant best seller on its publication in 1985. His other books drew on his rich experiences as a neurologist gleaned over almost five decades of professional practice. Sacks's work was recognized by prestigious institutions which awarded him numerous honours and prizes. These included the Lewis Thomas Prize given by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet. He was an honorary fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and held honorary degrees from many universities, including Oxford, the Karolinska Institute, Georgetown, Bard, Gallaudet, Tufts, and the Catholic University of Peru.
Title: Jim Hamilton: My great friend
Listeners: Kate Edgar
Kate Edgar, previously Managing Editor at the Summit Books division of Simon and Schuster, began working with Oliver Sacks in 1983. She has served as editor and researcher on all of his books, and has been closely involved with various films and adaptations based on his work. As friend, assistant, and collaborator, she has accompanied Dr Sacks on many adventures around the world, clinical and otherwise.
Tags: Jim Hamilton
Duration: 1 minute, 13 seconds
Date story recorded: September 2011
Date story went live: 02 October 2012
