It is a scene that did not leave netizens indifferent. This Saturday, as a wish for the transition to the year 2023, Philippe Cruette, managing director of the Bordeaux Nord Atlantique Group, posted on social media a video viewed several tens of thousands of times and widely shared.
We see Dr. Aïcha N’Doye, a gynecologist and senologist surgeon, in her hospital uniform, singing the title If I do not have you of the American singer Alicia Keys to a patient, moments before the latter’s anesthesia.
stress remedy
While listening to relaxing music in the operating room is becoming more common, having a surgeon who sings to calm his patients is exceptional. In the video, the patient even jokes “we’ll be back” when Dr. Aïcha N’Doye finishes her song.
The surgeon began to sing when she was a medical intern. “One patient was very agitated at the time of anesthesia, impossible to infuse her, put her to sleep, so I told myself she was going to try to sing her a song,” she explained to BFMTV on Thursday.
“She noticed my voice and that calmed her down,” says the one who “always sang in (her) youth.”
Songs adapted to the situation.
He says that he realized that his songs allowed patients to be more relaxed before anesthesia and surgery. “Where I work, I have patients in complex situations, a lot of oncology or very long care pathways,” she explains to our microphone.
Aïcha N’Doye says that she adapts to each situation and each patient: some do not need a song, others ask for a particular song…
“There are patients who really need to be calm and calm, others need something more playful,” says the surgeon.
“Our world of hospital health is sometimes difficult but how beautiful”, concludes Philippe Cruette in the text that accompanies the video, adding that “these moments represent all the values we carry”.
Source: BFM TV
