Family medicine physician Catherine Forest listens to her one of her classical music idols serenade a dying loved one in the hospital.
To learn more about music and the brain, check out the book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks.
For more of Catherine's work, check out this essay in Vox.
Illustrations by Lindsay Mound.
Original theme music by Yosef Munro.
Other music comes from Blue Dot Sessions.
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