Ultimate Doctor Playlist
To commemorate the end of medical school, I compiled a playlist of ultimate celebration! Encompassing the gamut of medical student experience, I tried to include songs that represented the joy of saving patient’s lives, the tragedy of losing people, the misery of late night studying, the dirge of night calls, the weight of gargantuan loans, the exhilaration of science, the bitterness of health care reality, and the hope of doing what we were made to do.
As I was compiling the playlist, I was actually surprised to see how many songs about relationships use metaphors or allegories about health, science, and medicine. I found some really great songs, although I’ll admit one or two of them may be tenuously related to medicine! Feel free to comment and suggest songs!
Playlist
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV5qbzFWDxG6hlFk8ipOv8gkUvmJ1APRO
- Vital Signs – Ed Drewett
- Don’t Save Me – HAIM
- Money – The Drums
- On Call – Kings of Leon
- Dr Strangeluv – Blonde Redhead
- F bomb – Cousin Dan
- Heart Skipped a Beat – The xx
- Biological – Air
- Sleepyhead – Passion Pit
- I Need a Doctor (feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey) – Dr. Dre
- Surgeon – St Vincent
- Bear – The Antlers
- This Place is a Shelter – Ólafur Arnalds
- Down towards the healing – Lovedrug
- Unbelievers – Vampire Weekend
Playlist links & lyrics
- Vital Signs – Ed Drewett
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_Mop3BZqI
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859476265/
- But I never knew that you could be so heartless
Check your vital signsBut you say there’s a pulse that I can’t findGirl I’ve triedAnd you can be so flatlineI can’t bring you ‘roundYou say there’s a beat I’ve never found
All I hear is sounds of someone heartless
- Don’t Save Me – HAIM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiqIush2nTA
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859444784/
- Take me back, take, take
Take me back to the way that I was beforeHungry for what was to comeNow I’m longing for the way I wasSay you, say you will save me
Say you, say you will save me
- Money – The Drums
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYgNiZdfh4
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858875848/
- I want to buy you something, but I don’t have any money
No I don’t have any moneyI want to buy you something, but I don’t have any money
No I don’t have any money
- On Call – Kings of Leon
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOW5uoyKl0
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858646854/
- She said call me now baby,
And I’d come a running,She said call me now baby,And I’d come a running,If you’d call me now baby,I’d come a running
I’m on call
- Dr Strangeluv – Blonde Redhead
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTziEYjkCAY
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858655931/
- Looking everywhere, keep my fire going
Cold look in their eyes, cold air in their heartsThey are calling me, I always thought I could save them allThey are calling me, they don’t know I can’t stay all night longHey, Dr Strangeluv so sad, isn’t it true ?(You left without goodbye)
- F bomb – Cousin Dan
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2obgZBd7i5g
- I’m a scientist of love
Going to build you an F bomb
I’m a scientist of love
Just a scientist of love
All I need is your anatomy
- Heart Skipped a Beat – The xx
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHP_q3ViQM
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858792769/
- Heart skipped a beat
And when I caught it you were out of reachBut I’m sure, I’m sure
You’ve heard it before
- Biological – Air
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-9c-FIaWCw
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858495789/
- Thousands of hairs
Two eyes onlyIts youSome skinBillions of genesAgain its youXX XY
That’s why it’s you and me
- Sleepyhead – Passion Pit
- http://youtu.be/5bfseWNmlds
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858742644/
- And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin the burning rimLike stars burning holes right through the darkFlicking fire like saltwater into my eyesYou were one inch from the edge of this bed
I dragged you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead
- I Need a Doctor (feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey) – Dr. Dre
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA770wpLX-Q
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859397684/
- I’m about to lose my mind
You’ve been gone for so longI’m running out of timeI need a doctorCall me a doctorI need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life
- Surgeon – St Vincent
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7UeOxTGuM
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858876202/
- Best find a surgeon
Come cut me openBest find a surgeon
Come cut me open
- Bear – The Antlers
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YESdx5AHyJc
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858757468/
- There’s a bear inside your stomach
The cub’s been kicking from within
He’s loud, though without vocal chords
We’ll put an end to him
We’ll make all the right appointments
No one ever has to know
- This Place is a Shelter – Ólafur Arnalds
- Down towards the healing – Lovedrug
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFm1O8CqT5A
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858512030/
- I want my life to be red
With trees and like AutumnI’d float away from evil and
Down towards the healing
- Unbelievers – Vampire Weekend
- http://youtu.be/2_qKmTLbEPc
- http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859443656/
- Got a little soul
The world is a cold, cold place to beWant a little warmthbut who’s going to save
a little warmth for me?
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