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Medical (and other) humor
Sometimes, when facing a grim reality, things look bleaker than they really are. Humor sometimes helps. While this list started off as more or less exclusively (black) medical humor, it kind of got side-tracked towards the end, and went off on its own.
You might even consider passing this list along to your doc. Or add to it! Hopefully, you’ll get a laugh or two from the following:
The singing anesthesiologists (they are a barbershop quintet, but are all anesthesiologists), and are good:
Mr. Gasman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtktUIUHmp4
Waking Up Is Hard To Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrjcLJ2IE0
Breathe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP2OuZ_vI_s
Rollin’ and Devil With the Blue Scrubs On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yarDeAHJjr4
and if you go their web site,
http://www.laryngospasms.com/fr_home.cfm
it plays a loop of 5 other songs – Ring of Fire, The Little Old Lady With Her Fractured Femur, and parodies of some well-known surfing songs. And, they have two CDs for sale, to boot.
And, not letting the drug companies off the hook, there’s:
Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmEc8rd_Nw
and for yet another “regional” song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0w2rORwSc
And for something slightly different, you need to know about The Arrogant Worms. In honor of the last TLAP (Talk Like a Pirate) Day, they have, with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, done The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmA8Lhnlx4
and Rippy the Gator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=698f1ci-_gU
and Billy the Theme-Park Shark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMrndKnnow
and I Am Cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6eHIkYz4Y
And then there’s Cows With Guns