In the Bill Moyers series about healing in China; they record a MD who is doing brain surgery on a woman who is awake and talking whle the MD is working on different areas of this woman's brain.

I wish the debunkers would watch that video then speak to the patient, MD, and Qigong master who blocked the flow of ch'i so the MD could cut the top of thay woman's skull off, then continued to block the flow of ch'i so the patient was not unconscious from the pain. the MD was literaly talking to the patient while he operated on her

There are no "pain receptors" in brain tissue itself. Brain surgery is often performed while the patient is awake and conscious. Do you mean that the woman's scalp was not anesthetized, but she was given life-force energy (using QiGong) instead?