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A New Year’s Moment at NIH Clinical Center

Posted on January 6th, 2020 by Dr. Francis Collins

A New Year's Moment at NIH Clinical Center — To mark the new year, I spent my lunch hour playing the piano for patients, their families, and staff in the atrium of the NIH Clinical Center on January 3, 2020. If you’d like to share in the moment, it ends with Auld Lang Syne. Photo: NIH

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Tags: music, New Year, NIH Clinical Center, piano

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Patricia Chieffo says:

January 6, 2020 at 3:51 pm

A fabulous way to ring in the New Year 2020! Dr. Collins never fails to bring music in to sooth
the soul and heal the body!

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DR. SAUMYA PANDEY PH.D. says:

January 6, 2020 at 8:04 pm

Happy and Prosperous New YEAR 2020!

The musical backbeats “playing the piano with mesmerising rhythms” for heralding 2020 by Dr. Collins certainly appears a spectacular way of wishing American patients/families and colleagues “New Year”!!!

Looking forward to an in-person visit at the NIH Federal headquarters, USA in coming years to celebrate New Years with the experts!

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Katherine Gold says:

January 12, 2020 at 8:44 pm

This was fantastic! What was the first song you played? I have been trying but can’t figure out what it is! (ps, I recall your playing guitar to my medical school class years and years ago at Michigan!)

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