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This top neurosurgeon learnt everything she could about the human brain. Then she had a stroke
Dr Brindha Shivalingam nearly became a dancer instead of a neurosurgeon, but fate – in the form of geopolitics – intervened.
The Sri Lankan civil war disrupted her training in classical Indian dance. Instead, the 52-year-old former refugee channelled the skills she learnt dancing into the delicate concentration required for brain surgery.
The beauty of the brain
Brindha says neurosurgery is beautiful, and that there is opportunity for creativity while she is operating on the most important organ in the body.
Brindha had just performed a brain surgery in 2019 when she had the first of three strokes, and learned what it was like to be on the patient's side of the equation.
