A new clinical study on the effects of music in the PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) has just come in from Sweden. The final result is that “These findings promote use of listening to music to establish a healing environment for patients in a postanaesthesia care unit.”
Patients’ perception of music versus ordinary sound in a postanaesthesia [...]

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This historical information about the use of anesthesia during surgery appeared the The Boston Globe on June 6, 2009

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Plastic Surgery and criminology?
This is a different kind of post, but I thought it was interesting and I would share it with you. Enjoy! Drug Kingpin who’d had Plastic Surgery nailed by computer voice recognition! In a story that brings to mind John Woo’s “Face-off” which starred John Travola and Nic Cage as an FBI [...]

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For much of his life — indeed, for all of this and much of the past century — Victor Parsonnet has stood at the center of Newark history, especially in the fields of medicine and music. As a cardiac surgeon, he has been closely involved with such pioneering developments as the pacemaker, the transplant, and [...]

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