Patient plays violin during brain surgery
This violinist filled the operating room with music as doctors performed brain surgery on her.
This remarkable footage shows how a violinist played her violin while surgeons operated on her brain.
To prevent any damage to Dagmar Turner’s violin skills, neurosurgeons at King’s College Hospital in London, UK, asked her to play as they removed a tumour from her right frontal lobe, which is close to the area that controls the fine movement of her left hand.
While surgeons cut away part of her brain, 53-year-old Turner played music by Gustav Mahler, George Gershwin’s jazz classic Summertime and pieces by Spanish songwriter and singer Julio Iglesias.
After the surgery, Turner said: “I remember that my bow kept hitting something or someone, and I just thought ‘get out of my way’.”
Surgeons said the procedure was a success, removing over 90 percent of her tumour.