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There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Oliver Sacks
Science, Medicine, Physicians
Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Oliver Sacks
Nature, Science, Errors

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

Oliver Sacks
Science, Medicine, Physicians
Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Oliver Sacks
Philosophy, Philosophical, Science
Oliver Sacks (2013). “Seeing Voices”, Vintage

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