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The Nuance

Music Can Get Us Through This

Why a good tune is so good at relieving stress, anxiety, sadness, and other negative emotional states

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
6 min readSep 10, 2020

Surgical operations tend to be stressful experiences, and that stress can cause problems.

“The outcome of a surgery is very much predicted by the state a patient is in right…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.