Ludacris

I've blogged about medical lyrics in rap before... it's pretty interesting actually how medical words are thrown around.

Heard on the radio yesterday:
Jamie Foxx featuring Ludacris -- Unpredictable (luda's verse)

I'll be your Tylenol just take me till you doze off

So Tylenol is acetaminophen whis is a mild analgesic(pain reliever) and an anti-pyretic (fever reducer). So while not actually a sedative... it can relieve your pain enough so you can sleep, or reduce your fever, so you're more comfortable and thus can sleep. I guess Luda's right still.

Music in the OR part deux

So I don't know if many people at work actually know about this blog. Just a few I hope. anyway not minutes after I post the last post about music in the OR... I get an email from someone in the department. It's one of those with a million headers in the email so it's been forwarded a billion times.

Anyway... it linked to a version of the article and asked why would anesthesiologists cooperate with publicity that that makes it look like they have nothing better to do in the OR other than play music. I never really thought about it that way. We usually are busy doing other stuff. still having a choice would be nice.

On a completely random note, had a pretty decent day on Friday. Working with two very good, very pleasant residents. One paged me because our "healthy" patient had just had a run of V-Tach... for those of you who are non-medical. It's heart rhythm that's potentially fatal if it persists and is untreated. Luckily in this instance it was short and self limiting, but we were sending off some lab tests to make sure it wasn't a fairly simple electrolyte problem. Anyway I threatened the resident with a bad eval if it happened again. I told her I would note on her eval that, "Resident was good to work with, very knowledgeable, but unfortunately arrythmogenic" (irregular heartbeat-causing) She laughed.... I think she was humoring me... then again she laughs at everything.

Music in the OR

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A friend of mine sent me this link...

Are anesthesiologists the DJs of the operating room?

At my hospital the surgeons have control over the music. No choosing by me. I don't think they'd like my music anyway. Hip hop and pop is probably to contemporary for the ORs.

There is a lot of music in the ORs... You can tell what kind of day you're going to be having depending on the music. Country in the Vascular rooms, a little bit of everything in the Neuro rooms... quiet only in Cardiac... music maybe when they're closing.

Trick Daddy

I may be the only anesthesiologist that listens to rap. It's good stuff. It's amusing though... occasionally they throw in that random medical term in.

Lately on the radio they've been playing (Gimme Some) Sugar(remix) by Trick Daddy, featuring Ludacris, Lil' Kim, and Cee-Lo. It's a great song. They have some amazing rhymes.

One verse by Lil' Kim goes "I give ya high blood pressure like a diabetic". I know they're trying to relate the diabetes theme in as the title is Gimme Some Sugar, but I don't know that diabetes cause hypertension. They are associated however it seems. I guess she's saying she's so hot she raises your blood pressure.

Oh well, I can't hold it against them. I still like the genre. I still like the song.