A few weeks ago I found some doctors singing on YouTube. They made me laugh and perhaps, even, feel better.
I contacted the singing doctors to check, among other things, that they’re still in business. It turns out that Drs. Barry Levy and Greg LaGana both graduated from Cornell University Medical College just a few years back, in 1971. They’ve been performing together for years and still do.
“Why rant and rave when a laugh will do?” said the New York Times about the pair, in 2004.
Now, they have a YouTube channel. Of the five videos available, my preference is Doctors in Cyberspace (above) but that’s probably because I’m partial to the “I Feel Pretty” melody from West Side Story. Health Care Business, to the tune of “There’s No Business Like Show Business” comes in at a close second and, based on the number of YouTube viewings so far, seems to be the public’s favorite.
Their website is called Damaged Care. You can buy a CD for a holiday gift. Or hire the doctors to entertain at a real-life party or other event: they’ve performed for state medical societies, hospital associations, the AMA, pharmaceutical industry associations, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church among other agencies, and at Off-Off-Broadway venues in New York City.
The Damaged Care Doctors
I’m glad that they are still going at it. They present a different view of what doctors are and they do show that medical professionals also have a brighter side to them.