Dr. Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa

If you then go on to the side and you look at the neurologists that are helping me monitor the brain function with electrophysiology, and you listen to their keyboards as they're entering information, or the squiggly lines that are beeping also, it sort of makes some music.

And then you listen to the scrap text, the circulating nurses moving equipment, and that sound is like the percussion.

you know, in a band.

And if you listen to the steps, you know, of the people moving around quietly in the upper room, when you listen to the scrubs rubbing, you can listen to all that and it becomes the most beautiful music you can possibly imagine.

I have high magnification glasses.

They're called loops, you know, and a headlight.

And once I get deeper into the brain, I bring a microscope that it is more expensive than my house.

You know, it gets in there and gives me amazing light and a microscope that I can control with my mouth.

Yes, usually I have a small little handle that is in my mouth that controls this piece of equipment that is, you know, over a ton.

And I can move it and it's all the technology then.

Isn't that amazing?

And I can still talk because I usually use my teeth a little bit and I can still talk the way that you hear me talking as I'm moving the microscope.

Imagine you just put a pen in your mouth and you just move in your pen.

That's it.

That is crazy.

Then on top of that, I'm not done yet.

Then I use a special chair that has all kinds of controls.

You know, in my feet, in one foot, I have about 16 controls that allow me to do things with the chair and the microscope that suddenly I am fully connected to.

to the patient in such a way that the patient, the brain, the microscope and myself were almost one person.

So when one foot 16 controls with the other foot about eight controls and both of my hands are underneath the microscope under high level of magnification and you have instruments that are finer than the finest