Crescendo Decrescendo

Join Ben and Sam as they interview surgeon/musician Dr. Matthew Dixon to see what insights he has on the parallels between the medical specialty of surgery and various musical genres!

Mentions in the episode:
-Dr. Matthew Dixon (@mebdixon)
-Master of Puppets by Metallica
-Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
-Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer
-Horacio Hernández
-Deliberate practice, coined by K. Anders Ericsson

Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of surgery and various musical genres!

Mentions in the episode:
-Soundtracks: Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Avengers, Kung Fu Panda
-The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons, by Pearl Katz
-Dream Theater (progressive metal)
-Between the Buried and Me - Ad A Dglgmut (Different styles at 0:00, 3:04, 4:27, 5:51)
-Trioscapes (Dan Briggs of Between the Buried and Me)
-Code-switching
-The Doctor: "It's a beautiful heart."
-John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers in Conversation with Rick Rubin on the Broken Record podcast from Pushkin Industries
-Dr. Joseph Gascho's "Patients as People" exhibit at Penn State Health

Join Ben and Sam as they interview internist/musician Dr. Michael Picchioni to see what insights he has on the parallels between the medical specialty of internal medicine and various musical genres!

Mentions in the episode:
-Dr. Michael Picchioni
-The clinic is my woodshed: a new paradigm for learning and refining communication skills
-Medical Schools Should Admit More Guitar Players
-The Allman Brothers Band
-Burned Out at the Bedside: Patient Perceptions of Physician Burnout in an Internal Medicine Resident Continuity Clinic
-Rick Rubin

Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as we explore the parallels between the medical specialty of internal medicine and various musical genres! 

Mentions in the episode:
-Straight vs swing, as explained by AJR (1:00-1:30)
-TED talk by Itay Talgam
-Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
-Flow, as coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
-Alpha, by Vangelis