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Poetry and stock market keep patient awake during brain surgery

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2015-07-03 11:28Ecns.cn Editor: Mo Hong'e
A patient surnamed Wang is ready to leave the hospital where he has received brain surgery. (Photo/Southern Metropolis Daily)

A patient surnamed Wang is ready to leave the hospital where he has received brain surgery. (Photo/Southern Metropolis Daily)

(ECNS) - Doctors in the southern city of Shenzhen kept talking to a patient about the stock market and asked him to recite ancient Chinese poetry to keep him awake during brain surgery, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

The patient surnamed Wang had a brain tumor close to the motor speech area of his brain. Through conversations about poetry and stocks, doctors at the No.2 Shenzhen People's Hospital could accurately locate the tumor and avoid damaging other healthy brain matter. Wang had surgery three years ago to remove a brain tumor, but it returned, along with epilepsy.

"Only a few places can do this type of operation. It has never been done in Shenzhen before," said Chen Baodong, chief physician at the hospital.

Wang's surgery was a success.

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