Patient Stays Awake and Plays Guitar During Surgery While Doctors Remove a Tumor From His Brain
All surgeries are serious, but brain surgeries are particularly delicate. Among other things, the patient’s abilities to speak and move are at stake. For one man named Christian Nolen, things went a step further. Knowing he was a talented guitarist, his doctors requested him to play his instrument on the operating table. Nolen had only heard about such procedures in movies and television shows. But having played guitar since he was 13, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity....