Music for surgery

Surgeons who listen to music while they work are more relaxed and better at their jobs, according to a new survey. But which is best – Beethoven, the Black Eyed Peas or Black Sabbath?It was, says Charlie, a friend, "one of the stranger moments in my life". The middle of the night, an operating theatre in a hospital in east London, towards the end of a difficult and stressful delivery. This was Charlie and his partner's first baby, a boy, his umbilical cord was wrapped around him, and it was a ...

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