Fixing the noisy hospital: The clamor of modern medicine can actually make us worse. So how do you write a prescription for shhh?
By Drake Bennett | Sunday, May 29, 2010 | The Boston Globe
“…Hospitals are loud. And while all that noise was once just seen as a perfectly tolerable byproduct of high-tech healing, a growing body of research suggests that the noise itself actually harms patients, interfering with the healing process, increasing the likelihood of medical errors, and raising the stress levels of everyone on the premises….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/05/30/fixing_the_noisy_hospital?mode=PF
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