Oliver Sacks was once crowned “the poet laureate of medicine” — he's known as one of the greatest science writers of our time. But when New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv dug into his archives, she discovered that some details in his intimate portraits of patients mirrored his personal life a little too closely. 

Guest: <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/rachel-aviv">Rachel Aviv</a>, staff writer for the New Yorker and author of <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250872913/strangerstoourselves/">Strangers to Ourselves</a>.

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