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Quality and Safety in Health Care 2008;17:2-3; doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025916
Copyright © 2008 by the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

EDITORIAL

Editorial

Handovers and Debussy

D P Stevens

Correspondence to:
Dr D P Stevens, Adjunct Professor and Director, Quality Literature Program, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Care, 30 Lafayette Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 USA; David.P.Stevens@Dartmouth.Edu

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When I started to study the piano at the age of eight, I would labour over my exercises and pieces, one note at a time. As I learned to read music, there was always a sense of accomplishment when the played notes seemed to reflect correctly the musical score in front of me. I don’t recall anyone ever calling me a musician, certainly not my first teacher. Getting the individual notes right and in correct sequence was a long way from making music. For me it was all about the notes. Claude Debussy is said to have clarified this issue that generally eludes most novice musicians, when he said, "Music is not just about the notes. Rather it is created by the spaces between the notes."

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