| For many years now I have worked in a
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| | depressed patients and seeing their faces
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| full-service medical - surgical hospital
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| | light up when they hear "You've Got a
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| in Louisville, Kentucky. There is not a
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| | Friend" or "I'll Be Loving You, Always"
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| single area of this hospital (or any
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| | is something that I wouldn't miss for
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| hospital) that could not benefit from
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| | the world.I also particularly enjoy
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| having music incorporated in some
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| | helping people pick out their music for
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| specific well-thought-out way. And I
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| | surgery and have put together three
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| don't mean just having MUSAK piped in! I
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| | tapes: one for the waiting area, one for
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| believe that most people today find MUSAK
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| | the operating room and one for the
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| more offensive than enjoyable. You've all
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| | recovery room. People tell me time after
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| heard of the law of diminishing returns?
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| | time that the process of making the tape
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| When pre-recorded piped-in music was
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| | distracted them from worrying about the
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| first invented everyone thought it was
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| | outcome as much as they might have
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| great: soothing, relaxing, calming.
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| | otherwise. Having the tape in the
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| Now, most people detest it and find that
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| | recovery area let them know, for sure,
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| it makes their blood pressure go up and
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| | that they had survived the surgery and
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| their tempers flare. In a hospital, the
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| | were listening to the music that they had
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| ideal is to use personalized music,
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| | chosen. One lady felt that her tape saved
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| offered to patients as well as those in
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| | her life because the recovery room was so
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| the waiting areas through new or freshly
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| | noisy and the nurses were rattling papers
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| sanitized headphones, much like those
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| | and talking so loudly! The benefits of
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| that are offered on international
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| | music during surgery are well-documented,
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| flights. There could be either a tape or
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| | but you must ask the surgeon enough time
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| CD library available or audio equipment
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| | in advance that they can do their own
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| embedded in the seats to plug into for a
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| | research if necessary.In conclusion,
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| choice of music selections.This not only
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| | there is no an area of the hospital where
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| allows people to relax with the kind of
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| | music cannot be beneficial. If you find
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| music they enjoy, but it also blocks out
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| | that you or a loved one or friend must be
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| the disconcerting sounds of overhead
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| | in the hospital, please consider taking
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| paging, ambulances arriving, and people
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| | your portable CD player or MP3 player.
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| calling out, crying, etc. There are
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| | If you listen to your favorite soothing,
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| literally hundreds of studies documenting
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| | comforting music, chances are that you'll
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| the effectiveness of music in surgery,
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| | get out of there sooner. I'll be
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| pain management, childbirth, oncology,
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| | thinking about you!Helping people to use
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| chemo and radiation. In the area of
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| | music for Healing and Wellness. Dr. Cash
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| Behavioral Health, or Psychiatry as it
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| | stresses the use of music for health,
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| used to be called, the benefits of using
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| | learning, motivation, relaxation, energy
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| music with patients who are depressed,
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| | building, or well-being. She is known
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| anxious, or chemically dependent on drugs
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| | internationally for her work with music
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| or alcohol, are enormous. This is
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| | and pregnancy, surgery, addictions, and
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| something that I do every day and the
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| | Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Cash can be
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| rewards are one of the great joys of my
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| | reached through Healing Music
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| profession. Playing the piano for
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| | Enterprises.
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