https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-musician-pla...
Related research study on the practice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32505870/
If I ever need brain surgery, I guess they'll probably have me try to respond to JIRA tickets and troubleshoot npm dependency conflicts during the operation.
for me they will ask me to play chess. and they will stop cutting when i start making good moves.
Presumably, the idea of having the musician playing is to give the doctor a heads-up in case they slice into a valuable area of the brain. But, by the time the music playing is affected, the slice would have already happened — so then, what's the point?
I agree it's a great way to harvest social media likes (which presumably helps pay the medical bills, so I suppose it's nothing to sneeze at). But it's tough to see how it'd meaningfully help a fine-grained surgery. That abstract on PubMed ^ seems to say much the same:
> ...playing music did not improve or modify surgery.
- Works as designed
- It's a feature
- This is egregious! I'll get to fix it immediately
Doctors: Oh no, we cut too much!