Connecting with patients can keep docs from being 'uncomfortably numb'

Connecting with patients can keep docs from being 'uncomfortably numb'

Opinion: Connecting with patients can keep physicians from becoming ‘uncomfortably numb’

By BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ

LUCA BRAVO/UNSPLASH

I found out my patient was a big Pink Floyd fan, so as she entered the operating room I had "Comfortably Numb" playing. Her fears immediately eased.

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