Violinist Dagmar Turner needed to have a brain tumor removed. She was very concerned that the surgeons at King's College Hospital in London might accidentally damage the brain tissue which controlled fine motor movements. So the surgeons allowed her to play her violin while they operated on her. The Washington Post reports:
The scene was a testament to the success of a once-contentious procedure now embraced in hospitals around the world. Surgeons working close to parts of the brain that control important functions such as speech or movement routinely keep patients awake to best determine where tumor gives way to something vital. [...]
Turner went under general anesthesia while they opened her skull. But the brain itself does not have pain receptors, and she was wide-awake for the tumor’s removal, playing Gershwin, Mahler and more.
-via USA Today
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thats a wild visual - there's something a little H R Giger about this. I duno someone should do a painting of this
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