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Doctors operate upon woman while she prepares stuffed olives
Updated On: 13 June, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
A picture posted on Twitter shows the woman busy preparing stuffed olives while doctors conduct a surgery on her brain to remove a tumour

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You may have heard of people singing or playing musical instruments while undergoing a brain surgery, but have you heard of someone cooking while being operated upon? A 60-year-old woman in Italy has made news after a picture of her preparing stuffed olives while undergoing a brain surgery went viral.
The picture posted on Twitter shows the woman busy preparing the stuffed olives while doctors conduct a surgery on her brain to remove a tumour. According to a report in the BBC, the woman prepared 90 Ascoli olives within the span of an hour, while doctors operated upon her temporal lobe that controls the speech and complex movements on the right part of the body. The report states that the doctors used the method to monitor her behavior during the surgery to help them adjust their work accordingly.
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