In 1889 Nietzsche wrote, “Without music life would be a mistake.” As someone who regularly spends a chunk of change on Radiohead and Bright Eyes, I completely agree. I’m not the only doctor who finds ...

For eons, traditional cultures have used music to mark important milestones: fertility rites, birth, puberty, marriage, and death. So it’s not surprising to learn that operating rooms in major ...

For surgeons, playing music while performing a medical procedure can help keep their focus since it lessens background noise and other distractions in the operating theater. According to a new study ...

The vast majority of surgeons listen to some type of music in the operating room — and most of them will go for rock, according to Spotify. A joint study between Spotify and Figure 1 research company ...

The third episode of the hospital comedy Scrubs starts with a tense moment in the operating room between attending surgeon Dr. Wen and his intern Dr. Turk. “Look, I’ve been an attending for three ...

We all know gentle music can be relaxing, but it can also promote healing, says Hawaii ophthalmologist and classical pianist Jorge Camara. That’s him on the cover of his new CD, “Live from the ...