Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Denise Bacon, 65, saw her finger ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient experience has always been at the heart of surgical practice. Before the advent of modern anesthesia ...

Caroline Shaw had no idea she would feel an overwhelming urge to use the bathroom in the middle of her facelift. “My face was only half done, and they asked if they could take my picture, which they ...

Awake surgery, or conscious surgery, is a procedure in which patients stay conscious during the operation with the help of regional or local anesthesia. Dr Ravi Kesari, internal medicine specialist at ...

Eons ago, when human surgery and anaesthesia were in their infancy, people endured surgical procedures whilst completely awake. There were varying attempts at keeping patients pain-free, ranging from ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...