Here's What Surgeons Listen to While Operating On You
Follow us as we paint you a word picture: You're lying on an operating table, about to go under for god knows what (let's say you're having your tonsils removed, that seems harmless enough). You begin to fade with the anesthesia. You wake up hours later, unknowing that much time has passed. Maybe you had a cool weird surgery dream. Either way, you're outta there, healthy, groggy and wondering: What the hell happened when you were under? And more importantly, what was everyone listening to?
When asked about the benefit of playing music in the operating room, David Bosanquet, a surgeon-in-training at the University Hospital of Wales, told the British Medical Journal, "For the awake patients, I think the evidence is relatively clear. It’s fantastically beneficial." Podcasts and other spoken-word recordings don't seem to work because they're too distracting. The perfect solution? Top 40 radio! Surgeons love to blast stuff that's familiar to them, the other physicians in the room and the patient.
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