{"id":2077960,"date":"2025-10-08T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2077960"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:45:03","slug":"miriam-mutebi-music-in-the-or-is-not-about-entertainment-its-about-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/miriam-mutebi-music-in-the-or-is-not-about-entertainment-its-about-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Mutebi: Music in the OR is Not About Entertainment &#8211; It\u2019s About Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><strong>Miriam Mutebi<\/strong>, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, posted on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/miriam-mutebi-md-msc-facs-7a8b4340_keepingabreastwithdrmiriam-ubuntucancerfoundation-activity-7381603151210250240-7GPM?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADoF1EoBv2P8_NTShRGg5xZi537eGaNelWw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h5>\u201cSurgery often comes with a soundtrack, and it\u2019s not what you think.<\/h5>\n<p>Before you\u2019re put to sleep, we\u2019ll ask what makes you feel calm. For some, it\u2019s soothing Duas or Gospel music. For others, it might be Congolese Lingala, or even a little EDM. <strong>The point isn\u2019t the genre; it\u2019s you<\/strong>. It\u2019s about making sure you feel safe, seen, and comforted before we begin.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re asleep, the playlist changes. <strong>The music shifts to what helps the surgical team focus<\/strong>: classical, jazz, sometimes even rock. It\u2019s never loud, never distracting. Just a steady hum in the background, a rhythm that steadies hands and quiets minds.<\/p>\n<p>Music in the OR is not about entertainment. It helps us focus, smooths the flow of the operation, and reminds us that we are as human as we are clinical.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it\u2019s not just about removing disease. We care for the whole person, in ways both big and small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>More posts featuring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/tag\/miriam-mutebi\">Miriam Mutebi<\/a> on OncoDaily.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source oncodaily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, posted on LinkedIn: \u201cSurgery often comes with a soundtrack, and it\u2019s not what you think. Before you\u2019re put to sleep, we\u2019ll ask what makes you feel calm. For some, it\u2019s soothing Duas or Gospel music. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2077961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Miriam-Mutebi-Music-in-the-OR-is-Not-About-Entertainment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077962,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077960\/revisions\/2077962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}