It is a medical axiom that if a doctor doesn’t bring their humanity with them to work, they won’t find it on the way home. Where doctors find their particular brand of humanism—the kind that drives them toward suffering—is a mystery. But many have looked for it in music. Edward Jenner, discoverer of the smallpox vaccine, was a dedicated violinist; physician René Laennec’s appetite for carving his own flutes led him to invent the stethoscope; the surgeon Theodor Billroth was a talented pianist and violist, and sounding board of his friend Johannes Brahms. Dr. Albert Schweitzer funded the building of a clinic at Lambaréné, deep in the jungle of Gabon, by giving piano recitals, and then had an upright pedal-piano delivered to said clinic by canoe, so that he might unwind after treating bouts of yaws and dysentery.