The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat <Tab/>Mr. P, a music teacher, whose associates have questioned his perception, is referred by his ophthalmologist to the neurologist Oliver Sacks. During the first office visit, Sacks notices that Mr. P faces him with his ears, not his eyes. His gaze seems unnatural, darting and fixating on the doctor's features one at a time. To begin with, there are only a …
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…colleges and family became worried and when Dr. Sacks asked her about anything she said she didn't care. She had become indifferent about everything. Things like what or who somebody was, or even the difference between her right and left hand. It turns out that she had a cerebral tumor. At craniotomy there was found, not a meningioma as had been hoped, but a large carcinoma involving the orbit frontal aspects of both frontal lobes.