Just finished this New Yorker piece on Oliver Sacks. Rachel Aviv got access to decades of his journals, where Sacks berates himself for making up details and otherwise embroidering patients' stories he tells in his most famous books. There's a lot more here than that and I like Aviv's approach here. I wish Steve Silberman (npub1k65…pc0u) were still alive to discuss this....Steve was friends with Sacks.
(Yes it's paywalled..I access the magazine through my library.)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost
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