Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author who died last Sunday, was loved by his patients for his attentiveness to them. Writing in Vanity Fair earlier this year, a friend of Sacks recalled a visit to the Holy Family Home run by the Little Sisters in Brooklyn in 1983. The Sister in charge admired the way Sacks would welcome each patient as a friend. She said: “One day he was looking at a woman who’d lost feeling in her fingertips and could no longer finger the rosary. He just sensed