Lindon Beckford, a patient transporter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, went viral after a video of him singing while doing his job went viral on the social media.
Beckford shared that he is singing since he was a little boy, and that the location his singing in is not important for him.
“I was always singing at work. I was always singing as a child growing up, so it was just a natural thing. It was more for a comforting thing…” Beckford shared in his interview.
“… So I did that just to comfort myself, but all of a sudden I get to realize people was listening to me.”
“Depending on the conversation that I hear… is the patient in pain? What song can I sing to relieve them.”
“At the end when I get them to their procedure or back to their room they will tell me, ‘you know, you make this trip from here to there so much easier because of your singing’.”
This is a way of expressing himself for Beckford, as he confirmed. Also, it is a gamechanger for the patients he is interacting with.
“I remember the first time a patient journeyed with me, I was taking her to the cath lab, and she started doing harmonies for what I was singing, I’m like ‘oh’, it was so amazing, I’m like ‘wow’, and ever since then that happened a few times,” Beckford recalled.
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