Patient Plays Saxophone While Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor

Music is not only a major part of Dan Fabbio ’s life, as a music teacher it is his livelihood. So when doctors discovered a tumor located in the part of his brain responsible for music function, he began a long journey that involved a team of physicians, scientists, and a music professor and culminated with him awake and playing a saxophone as surgeons operated on his brain.
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