It plays a significant role during surgery:
Music can become a subtle bone of contention among the members of the surgical team or a practical aid. Loud rock ‘n’ roll is good for routine operations, they say, Mozart for trickier ones. There is even a genre called “closing music”: raucous sounds to suture by.
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It’s nice to read the effect of music to doctors while in the OR. I remember having background music when I gave birth to my eldest. I could hear happy people around me that day.
As for preference according to NYTimes, Abba, Verdi, Coldplay, etc. is fine with me just don’t play heavy metal.
Maybe “Love in an elevator” would have been appropriate for you..that’s where your child was conceived, right?
A stalker huh? You’re following my posts.
Vous personne de cerveau de pois ! Disparaissent la baise vous-même !
It’s sweet when you say it in French. I am very generous with adjectives, more so with my expletives but I dont deal with cowards hiding in their mother’s skirts.
cery intersting. I will translate this article for my readers.
Interesting, what do they use for challenging cases?
rheumatoid arthritis
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