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- From: ME.DMG@forsythe.stanford.edu (David Gaba M.D.)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Re: Deadhead Doctors... (fwd)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:46:24 -0800
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- About music in the operating room
-
- >| "And the Number 1 choice at Johns Hopkins is -- are you
- >| ready -- the Grateful Dead. Doesn't anyone see how
- >| upsetting this can be to a living patient?"
-
- Yes, there are a lot of Deadhead physicians. As an anesthesiologist
- I can report that a significant chunk of my department are
- Deadheads (ranging in age from 25-60). We do like to listen to
- the Dead, among other thing, in the OR. Any patient who was
- having surgery with regional anesthesia and who recognizes the
- band would probably not be too upset by the name. Most of our
- patients are over 50-60 and wouldn't appreciate the music in
- the first place!
-
- Incidentally, we control the volume of music in the OR so that
- we can hear the "beeps" on the monitors and the communication
- between the team members. Still, nothing like some tunes
- to keep on truckin'.
-
- D. Gaba, M.D.
- Assoc. Prof. of Anesthesia
- Stanford University School of Medicine
-