Medic Music- 3

Here's the next bit in Medic Music.
Sung to the tune of the classic 'The Reason' by Hoobastank, listed some side effects of anti-cancer drugs.
(Apologies in advance for killing the awesome song that The Reason is.)

Here goes:


Lyrics:

Vincristine’s neurotoxic

It causes SIADH too.

Vinblastine blasts the marrow

Hematopoetic cells remain a few.

Cyclo-P is an alkylating agent

That causes cystitis

--Hemorrhagic cystitis—

That needs to be prevented

Acrolein is the culprit.    

Mesna prevents it.

Cisplatin harms the kidneys

It causes 8^th nerve toxicity too

Lung fibrosis is bleo--

And doxo is cardiotoxicity

With 5 fluoro uracil is seen

Photosensitivity-- yyy

(That’s *not* reversible with

A dose of leucovorin)

It needs thymidine for rescue

Thymidine rescues (4)

Mtx -- fatty liver

Myelosuppression’s also a taboo

Mucositis is prominent too

All s/e of Mtx

Coz folate is what he lacks

Leucovorin reverses

(It makes the patient the patient all better

And that’s all that matters!)

Original Song:

The Reason

Image from here.

Another thing, if anyone is interested, there's this cool Chemo-man to remember s/e of anti cancer meds:

Chemoman's image from here.

Medic Music -2

I'm back with the second song for Medic Music.
This time its in a much more listener friendly setting- you don't have to navigate away or download it. :D

The song is sung to the tune of Lollipop by Mika. Of course, even after all my efforts, I could not get a karaoke generator, but Pranab's advice was useful- made the clip with Audacity (unlike the generic Windows sound recorder used last time). Thanks Pranab! :)

The song isn't all that good ( I like DJS more) but had to get it out of my system before I could move on to something better. Made it up somewhere during the exam prep, when I was trying to remember various drugs for Parkinson's disease and what each of the drug's role is in treatment.

Here goes- for *both* of my listeners! ;)

Lyrics:
So you dx'ed Parkinson, eh?
What you gonna do about
x2

For young- with mild
Anti cholinergics do the trick
x2

For oldies with mild disease
No anti cholinergics please.
For mild ones, give 'em amantadine
No side effects in seeing or peeing.
x2

Severe severe
Rx'ing it now m'dear
x2

Young get agonists of dopamine
Much less side effects are they seen.
Levodopa is for older men,
Add carbidopa then!
x2


Original song:


Image from here.
Shobit: Still waiting for some tricks.

Medic Music

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Hey all,

This is my first effort at recording and podcasting.

I'm one of those people who can remember and recall lyrics to songs very easily. So, I always wanted to write some medical knowledge into popular sounds and hum it along.

Today was the day when I finally did it.

The song used is "Love Song" by Right Said Fred, and has been used since it was the song playing while I started doing this.

So basically what we have here is something that might sound like a hybrid between music bySubstance P (-I am a huge fan of his) and those roadside bhajans that you hear to the sound of popular Bollywood numbers (Yes, I do find them hilarious and easy to remember!).

There's no music in the background, because, well I don't play any instrument that well. And the vocals.. ermmm... lets just say we're here for learning. okay? ;)

I know there's a lot to improve on, but like I said in my previous posts, I'm running short on time these days. This is just a beginning and I was excited to share.

Criticism, suggestions and feedback would be appreciated.

:)

PS: Remember it is very very amateurish and has been done in about an hour! Next time the song will be more carefully chosen and more research will go into the topic.

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Post completion update: So, I could not figure out how to podcast. So just embedding it. Also, heard it for the first time and okay, sounds crappy. So if you want, you can just learn the lyrics instead of listening to the audio. I won't mind.

Post post completion update: The song's link is actually embedded into the title of the post. Or here . Next time I'll try to get it to stream somehow. (Tips on how to do this would also be appreciated)




**Scrap the post post completion update. Here's the latest. Embedded it! :D **

Image from here.