Dr. Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa

And that's what we do.

Wait, so you were giving him like math questions during the surgery?

Yes, math questions during the surgery.

Absolutely.

Very complex math questions to which I had no idea what the answer was.

Well, I had a neuropsychologist, we had a mathematician, you name it.

And then imagine I had another patient who was a patient that was a music, a classical guitar expert.

And he did an amazing job.

He had a two-hour concerto that he put together for me.

So during my entire surgery, he was serenading me with music from my own country, from Mexico, from the 40s and 50s.

You know, music from the United States from the 60s and 70s.

So he had a whole two hours because I had to make sure that I preserved.

He says, I'm OK if I cannot talk, but I cannot not play music.

I need to play my guitar.

You know, I had another patient recently that that he was important for him.

He works at an airport and he directs traffic, so air control.

So we set up our computer to simulate what the work would be like.

And during the surgery, he was monitoring flights, directing flights, doing all kinds of stuff.

For someone like you, it would have to be probably depend, just listen to you, which makes sure that we preserve your voice, your ability to ask all these probing questions in an interview and you name it.

Well, there are some baseline things that we have sort of utilized for decades.