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 ...

In a London operating room, the soft, familiar sound of a clarinet drifted through the air — not from a concert hall, but from the hands of a woman whose brain was being operated on. Denise Bacon, a ...

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 ...

Is this really the best time for a music break? This woman is in the middle of brain surgery. Actually, doctors say talking to a conscious patient is the best way to get feedback on whether they're ...