John Bufalini remembers clearly the first time he witnessed what music can do, as a first-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine.
He watched as the room of an assisted living facility was transformed as an older woman danced to the music from her youth. When her husband later took her hands and joined her in a two-step tour of the space, Bufalini watched in awe as the couple’s joy filled the room of the skilled nursing care unit.
“That was when I first witnessed the true power of music,” said Bufalini, who’s now an internal medicine resident at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center….