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Shuvodip Ray
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Why should you watch Awakenings? Because it brings to life a true story of hope, science-and the hard limits of medicine. In Penny Marshall’s 1990 film, Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer (inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks), who works in a Bronx hospital where patients have been motionless since the 1920s “sleeping sickness” epidemic. When Sayer convinces his colleagues to try a new drug, L-DOPA, these long-frozen patients blink, speak and even walk again-some for the first time in decades. But the miracle is fragile. Within months, L-DOPA’s effects fade, side effects appear, and many patients relapse. Awakenings is a roller-coaster of elation and despair that reminds us: Science can perform wonders-and must be matched by compassion. Research is full of unexpected twists. Every breakthrough carries lessons for every community-even ours in India. Watch Awakenings for its moving performances, but stay for the deeper message: in medicine-and in life-curiosity, empathy and perseverance are as vital as any discovery.
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