He observes also that surgery is a remarkably silent activity. Surgeons point and talk with their eyes. In conducting, of course, at best you say nothing, and everything is understood. Wong has also begun to research the growing scientific evidence of music's medical applications. To his surprise, he has discovered a wide body of literature about the use of music in areas such as pain control, autism, and memory and intelligence enhancement.
Music has tremendous palliative powers.
He speaks regularly to both medical and musical communities about his life's disparate passions. Wong believes that his new interest has helped him find solace. As a Harvard son, I have to justify myself to my alma mater. So we were the three black sheep of Harvard Medical School. For all those professors who trained me, my deepest apologies.