Some Dude Just Playing The Violin While Surgeons Pick Around In His Skull During Brain Surgery

Daily Mail- A concert violinist diagnosed with a tremor was able to help surgeons locate the exact spot in his brain to place an implant by playing his instrument during the operation. Roger Frisch, a concert master with the Minnesota Orchestra, was diagnosed in 2009 with essential tremors, a condition that occurs when sections of the brain that control movement start sending abnormal signals. Frisch’s condition was so mild that in many other line of work he might have been able to ignore it, but as a concert violinist it threatened his career. It took doctors a couple of years to determine Frisch’s diagnosis and then or him to agree to the still experimental Deep Brain Stimulation procedure surgery. The surgery involved a tiny electrode being implanted into his brain, which doctors assured Frisch would enable him to control the condition at the flick of a switch.
This is for all the Negative Nancies out there (myself included) who say the world sucks in 2014.  I mean, it still does, but this is pretty incredible stuff.  I don’t totally understand what’s going on here because I’m a moron but by the looks of it they are poking around in that dude’s brain while he plays the violin.  Think about that.  I’m the most pessimistic person in the world and my head exploded when I saw that.  Just a few hundred years ago if you got a scratch on your arm you were dead.  Infection would take over and it was curtains for you.  Accidentally cut yourself on a tree branch?  See ya.  Catch a cold?  Peace.  STD from that tavern whore? Bye bye.  Now we’ve got dudes playing the violin while surgeons do god knows what to diagnose this guy’s problem.  The crazy part?  They fixed it! It worked!  After see the results from this test they fixed whatever the hell was wrong with him.  2014!  Fuck yeah!  Sure, there’s still problems like racism (Looking at you, Ferguson police department) and problems in the Middle East (look at all of you) but we’ve come a long way from when it got to cold outside we just died.  So smile for fucks sake.