Last year, a man named Roger Frisch had a special violin constructed that would allow him to play as he underwent awake brain surgery so that surgeons could better tell what areas where affecting tremors he suffered.
Now, another musician, Anthony Kulkamp Dias, did the same thing during his nine-hour surgery, but he played his guitar for the team doing the operation, including a classic from The Beatles, “Yesterday.”
It’s not uncommon for surgeons to do awake surgeries, under local anesthetic, to determine which areas of the brain are affected and to ensure an area isn’t negatively affected during the process. But this usually includes speaking to a patient and asking questions.
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Dias’ surgery took place in Brazil at Nossa Senhora da Conceição hospital. Dias, whose brain tumor was discovered after he began to forget familiar names and stutter, shared one of his original songs with the team, according to IFLScience.
Here’s Dias’ unique version of “Yesterday.”
