Earth is Closed, but the Boys are Back in Town
Some fun pod updates
Friends…
Exciting news! Episode 4 of My Medical Mixtape is live on Spotify. “Track 3, Side 1: Transcendence Through Twin Guitars” celebrates the never-ending majesty of Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys are Back in Town” and the joy of sharing music with patients in the hospital.
It also features a conversation with the inimitable Carolyn Phillips, PhD…an oncology nurse practitioner, now PhD professor and researcher. In her research she pairs grieving families with singer-songwriters who write legacy songs for loved ones. It’s incredibly powerful stuff. When she’s not teaching or researching, she rocks hard with her Texas-music-Americana-roots-folk-pop band, Hardened and Tempered. She’s a great hang—we get to laugh a lot and she has some great takes on music. Check out the episode on Spotify!
Earth Is Closed
As if that wasn’t enough…here’s something else super fun. During COVID (remember that?), our group of ER docs and PAs started a playlist on Spotify called “Earth Is Closed.” The playlist blossomed to 346 songs, all of them somehow tying in to the pandemic or the end of the world or something along those lines that we were dealing with during the pandemic. This playlist brought us a lot of comfort in those weird early days of isolation.
For those of you who have listened to Episode 2 of the pod, you know that Dr. Luis Reyes and I talk about this playlist. A lot of folks have been asking about it since. The good Dr. Reyes dug it back up, and if you want to check it out…here’s a link to the Spotify playlist!
Stay in touch, friends.
Did you have a COVID playlist?
What song would you want to hear if you were stuck in the hospital?
I used to listen to Hamilton’s “It’s Quiet Uptown” during the pandemic. That line “there are moments when you’re in so deep, it feels easier to just swim down” still brings me back to that feeling and that time every time I hear it.