“Mrs. Rose?” An unfamiliar voice cut into the scratchy recording of the second movement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, “Pastoral.” The headphones and squishy plugs in my ears were meant to distract me from the relentless mechanical symphony of bangs and thuds resonating around the constricting MRI chamber. The distinctive click of a microphone key relea…
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