A new peer-reviewed study from Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital offers some of the strongest evidence yet that music played during general anaesthesia can modestly but meaningfully reduce drug requirements and improve recovery. The study focuses on patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the standard keyhole operation to remove the gallbladder. The procedure is short - usually under an hour - and demands a particularly swift, “clear-headed” recovery. To under