Patient Plays Violin During Brain Tumor Surgery

Written on 19 February 2020.

An article in Time Magazine and another in the Daily Mail tells the story of 53 year old Dagmar Turner, a patient with a brain tumor (a grade 2 glioma) who played the violin while surgeons performed a craniotomy in a London hospital. Doctors mapped her brain to identify which areas were most crucial to the professional musician. Then they woke her up mid-surgery to make sure she could still play the instrument. Read more: https://time.com/5786393/patient-plays-violin-during-brain-surgery/ or here: https://time.com/5786393/patient-plays-violin-during-brain-surgery/

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