"Patients going down, doobie doo, down down"
Published 23 September, 2008, 13:31
The fact that medics’ sense of humour often drifts to the darker tones is a natural reflection of their profession and dealing with life and death on a daily basis. A band of anaesthetic nurses gave medical jokes a tune and now sing mind-blowing parodies a-cappella.
The Laryngospasms – called so after a common anaesthesia condition – say they ‘create and shamelessly perform medical parodies to any audience that will listen’.
Their story started with a Christmas party joke in 1990 after students from the Minneapolis School of Anaesthesia purported Neil Sedaka’s hit of the early 1960’s “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”.
One of the guests suggested the title should rather be “Waking Up is Hard to Do” considering who the singers were, and the joke stuck in the mind of Gary Cozine, the future band’s leader.
Appropriate lines quickly came:
Don’t take my tube away from me,
I’m tryin’ to breath, oh, can’t you see?
Take it out and I’ll turn blue
‘Coz waking up is hard to do.
Since then the band of arguably funniest medics since M.A.S.H. zigzagged across the U.S. taking the stage on numerous events and released two albums.
And they’ve being kind to upload some of their music videos on YouTube for everyone to enjoy. Works as good as laughing gas.
“Breath”
“Waking Up is Hard to Do”
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