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Surgeons: What's on your iPod?
Back in the day, surgeons used to just pick a radio station for music to play in the operating room, attending surgeon Dr. Randall Gaz of Massachusetts General Hospital says in a New York Times story about Dr. Claudius Conrad and his research on the effects of music on patients' healing (scroll down for our summary.).
“This new wave of surgeons bring their iPods,” Gaz told the Times (The image comes from Reno, Nev., via iLounge. “They bring whole mixes. It’s like they have the whole thing choreographed."
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