Why We Need a Music Player in Every Patient Room

Doug Bradley; Omar Viswanath

doi:10.1001/amajethics.2019.303

Why We Need a Music Player in Every Patient Room

AMA J Ethics. 2019 Mar 1;21(3):E303-308. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.303.

Authors

Doug Bradley¹, Omar Viswanath²

Affiliations

¹ A distinguished lecturer emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
² An anesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine physician who practices in Phoenix, Arizona, and a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology at Creighton University School of Medicine and the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.

PMID: 30893047
DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2019.303

Abstract

Music can influence clinicians' and patients' mental states and emotions via the capacity of rhythm and tone to entrain. Entrainment can facilitate relaxation and distraction from pain and has a role to play in experiences with and in health care. In this article, we discuss the benefits of music from the perspectives of a physician and a veteran.

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

History, 20th Century
Humans
Music / psychology
Music Therapy* / history
Music Therapy* / methods
United States
Veterans / psychology
Vietnam Conflict