MusicophiliaBy: Oliver Sacks With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with amusia, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds for everything but music. Dr Sacks describes