Doctors in Italy have said they performed delicate brain surgery during which “the patient remained awake and playing the saxophone”, reported UPI. Paideia International Hospital in Rome said the 35-year-old patient was kept awake and played his saxophone during the nine-hour operation to remove a brain tumour. The medics said the musical performance allowed the surgeons to map the different functions of his brain as they operated.
World’s oldest doctor reaches 100
A 100-year-old Ohio man set the Guinness World Record for being the world’s oldest working doctor. Speaking to Cleveland.com, Dr Howard Tucker said: “People say to me, you’re doing pretty good for 100, and I say to myself how many 100-year-old people have they sampled? I don’t think I’ve ever met another 100-year-old person. I have only met myself.” Speaking to the world record classifiers, he added: “When you love what you do and are still capable of doing it, why would you want to retire?”
23 contact lenses removed from patient’s eye
A doctor has shared a video of her removing 23 contact lenses from a patient’s eye. Posting on Instagram, Dr Katerina Kurteeva shared the clip of her teasing the lenses from underneath a woman’s eyelid. According to the post, the patient put in a new set of lenses for 23 days in a row without taking the previous day’s out. “A rare occasion when someone ‘forgot’ to remove contact lenses at night and kept on putting a new one in every morning,” wrote Dr Kurteeva. ” Speaking to Insider, the Dr said the patient was sent away with eye drops and was feeling “better already”.
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