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Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook, And The Patient Was Awake

By Admin | November 13, 2019

On Tuesday, doctors performed surgery on a woman's brain - while thousands of people watched on Facebook Live.

Jenna Schardt was the person under the knife - and in the spotlight - during the livestreamed brain surgery at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. She needed a mass of seizure-causing blood vessels removed from her brain, and when the hospital approached her about streaming the procedure via Facebook Live, she was more than willing.

For more information please read, Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook, And The Patient Was Awake, by Science Alert.

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