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Carnegie Mellon student participates in own brain surgery Follow Us Question of the Day PITTSBURGH (AP) - For someone just listening in, the conversation sounded almost like small talk. “Before Pittsburgh you lived in …?” “How do you say pizza in Chinese?” TOP STORIES “Did you eat a lot of that in Chicago?” But the conversation was anything but ordinary. Lingwei Cheng, 27, lay on an operating table last fall at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Multiple screens showed images...

“I knew that I didn’t really have any other options, but it was hard to accept,” she said.

Graduate student in Pittsburgh participates in her own brain surgery