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

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

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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