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PROFESSIONAL ISSUESDoctor duo skewers health system with lyrical laughsThey want audiences to have fun, but also think about health system change.By Damon Adams, AMNews staff. Aug. 2, 2004. Doctors, take your places. Get ready to cue the lights. Three ... two ... one. ... It's show time! Good afternoon and welcome to Community Health Systems, a subsidiary of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. If you're changing your insurance carrier, please press 1. If you have a question about a bill, please press 2. If this is a life-threatening emergency, please hang up and call 911 ... And good luck! And now ladies and gentlemen, the musical comedy about health care in America, "Damaged Care." Internists Barry Levy, MD, and Greg LaGana, MD, take the stage, ready to spend the next 45 minutes entertaining you. It's their time to put the spotlight on the trials and tribulations of medicine -- using a little song and dance. The two doctors perform "Damaged Care: The Musical Comedy About Health Care in America" in cabaret style several times a year for medical societies, hospital groups and others who need a little levity to help the medicine go down. "Somebody said we're not 'Les Mis.' Well, that's true. It's more what we sing than how we sing," said Dr. Levy, 59, a consultant in occupational and environmental medicine and adjunct professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Listen in as the doctors sing about the changing doctor-patient relationship in the tune "Doctors in Cyberspace," set to the music of "I Feel Pretty" from "West Side Story:" Dr. Levy: |
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