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“Awakenings” is the most moving American movie to deal with the issue of care ... lunch at the New York Botanical Gardens. Though the patients are statue-like, Sayer wonders whether they ...

Portraying coma patients in movies as 'sleeping beauties' misrepresents ... They say showing people suddenly awakening after years in a coma with no physical or mental problems, or depicting ...

His book "Awakenings," based on his work in the 1960s with patients who were unable to initiate movement, was turned into an Oscar-nominated movie of the same name starring Robin Williams and ...

Soon after cancer ended his 82 years of life early on Sunday morning, it was clearer than ever that he will be most remembered for his memoir Awakenings ... were his own patients, who make ...