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Scales to Scalpels Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine

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ISBN-10: 1605984345

ISBN-13: 9781605984346

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lisa Wong, Robert Viagas

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You may have read about the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) in the paper or heard them on your favorite classical radio station. Yet the LSO is not just any orchestra. The LSO began in 1982 began in 1982 with a group of talented Boston-area physicians, med students and health-care professionals and, thanks to Harvard Medical School pediatrician and violinist Lisa Wong, who became the president of the LSO in 1991, the orchestra has transformed into a proud, extraordinary group of musicians with fans around the globe.In Scales to Scalpels, Dr. Wong chronicles how the music acumen of these physicians affects the way they administer healing and, in turn, how their medical work affects their…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 5/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594

Dr. Lisa Wong is an associate in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and maintains her own private practice in Boston�s South Shore. She is the president of the Longwood Symphony, a board member of young Audiences of Massachusetts and helped start �Bring Back the Music,� which revitalized in-class instrumental music instruction in Boston public schools.

Robert Viagas founded and managed Playbill.com, Theatre.com and Broadway Television Network, and is the editor of Playbill Books. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and lives in New York City.

Foreword
Foreword
Introducing the Musician-Physician
Overture to the Musician-Physician
A Pediatrician with a Violin
Music and Healers, from Apollo to Dr. Albert Schweitzer
The Longwood Symphony Orchestra Finds Its Own Lambar�n�
Music, Medicine, and Healing
Musician-Physician Modulation
Music As Healing
Music and Brain Development
Left and Right Hemispheres
Overcoming Discord
Musician, Heal Thyself
Music and Mental Health
Musician-Physicians and the Community
From Clashing Chords to Perfect Harmonies
Bringing the Humanities Back to Medicine
Tomorrow's Musician-Physicians
What We Listen To
Personal Suggestions from the Musician-Physicians
Works Cited
Additional Articles
Longwood Symphony Orchestra's Community Partners 1991-2011
Notes