Doctor My Eyes ...

I love collecting medical songs.
 I have a collection on Spotify you can listen to called Medically Necessary that opens with the great Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes" which includes that wonderful line "is this the price, for having learned how not to cry."

These songs were the soundtrack to hard days treating dying patients in my earlier years of oncology nursing. They helped me get through hard nights and gave me strength to go back for another 12 hours shift. Music is the best medicine - at least for me. Especially on a long and winding drive home. I'm always finding new songs and adding to my playlist.

One song I can't find on Spotify that belongs on that playlist is "Only the Song Survives" by John Hiatt. The song is a brilliant ballad about a couple that find themselves in the Emergency Room after a car accident. In it, the singer has short term memory loss, and he has trouble remembering what happened, and even that he was married in the first place. I can't put it on my playlist, so here it is:

Medical Music

I've been listening to more music now that I've left the podcasts about the election behind. When I first started in nursing I collected a bunch of songs that had medical themes or classic lines referring to medicine. Here's my current playlist:

Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne
Only the Song Survives by John Hiatt
Novacaine by the Eels
Sample in a Jar by Phish
Handshake Drugs by Wilco
Everybody Hurts by REM
Don't Give it to Me by the Proclaimers
Limb by Limb by Phish
Shot in the Arm by Wilco
Your Misfortune by Mike Doughty
My Eyes are Disconnected from My Body by Maestro Echoplex
Dead by They Might Be Giants
Hospital Bed by Ben Kweller
I Only Pray At Night by John Fulbright

Shadows in the Rain by Sting (mostly for the line "woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am. I should heed my doctor's warning, he does the best with me he can."

I know there's more out there. Any suggestions?