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Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

Mexican-American neurosurgeon and author

Jun 16, 2026

8:46
That is crazy.
8:48
Then on top of that, I'm not done yet.
8:50
Then I use a special chair that has all kinds of controls.
8:55
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 the patient in such a way that the patient, the brain, the microscope, and myself, we're almost one person.
9:18
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 pen you can possibly imagine doing microscopic movements to separate a small little blood vessel that is the size of a hair, but you know that that little blood vessel could potentially mean the difference between memories or no memories, speech or no speech, motor function or no motor function.
9:58
So that's how...
9:59
And you take your time and your patience, and you're listening to the orchestra, the symphony of the operating room, and you're handing your-- you're moving your hands, and your nurse predicts the instrument that you're going to need.

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30:10
[laughs]

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