Coming Alive, by Oliver Sacks
Briefly

In the sixties, neurologist Oliver Sacks discovered a number of encephalitis lethargica patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, many of whom had been immobile for decades due to the effects of the disease.
Sacks faced emotional turmoil at Beth Abraham, feeling both rage and guilt over the lack of treatment options for his Parkinsonian patients, who were given false hope repeatedly.
Read at The New Yorker
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