Peter back in the kitchen after live TV brain surgery
Thursday 1st July 2010, 2:29PM BST.
A MAN who underwent brain surgery live on TV is back at work.
Alderney man Peter Chaisit-Charles was forced to sell his restaurant, Gannets, after suffering regular epileptic fits.
Eighteen months ago, doctors at Southampton General Hospital diagnosed abnormal brain activity and recommended surgery to remove a suspected tumour.
Mr Chaisit-Charles, 53 (pictured), of Fontaine David, was kept awake during the procedure and asked to talk so the neurosurgeon would know when he was attacking the tumour. As long as the surgeon was zapping the correct part of Mr Chaisit-Charles’s brain, his speech would be unaffected.
In an added twist, the operation was featured on Channel 4 show Surgery Live.
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