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Playing A Saxophone During Brain Surgery

Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor. Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio's life, as a music teacher it is his livelihood. So when doctors discovered a tumor located in the part of his brain responsible for music function, he began a long journey that involved a team of physicians, scientists, and a music professor and culminated with him awake and playing a saxophone as surgeons operated on his brain. Source 2q.

Surgery Brain Saxophone Playing

I've seen something like this before but the person wasn't playing an instrument they were just awake. What a great idea to get the person to do something requiring certain parts of their brain so they can make a more precise surgery.