Wait...I thought we were doing Jesus Christ Superstar!
The signs were becoming ever more ominous—and harder to ignore. The final straw began with a sudden, inappropriately dramatic glare from Dr. Harry while we lunched on 7-layer burritos and chalupas: “ZDogg! At last! We eat at Taco Bell! This large…gordita…entices with its smell!”
I choked on my Fanta, forcing me to put down my daintily powdered churro while irredeemably staining my Rush 2112 concert T-shirt. “Why are you singing at the top of your lungs in the middle of Taco Bell?” I asked, my sense of dread growing as I nervously nibbled the edge of my sour cream-encrusted tostada slathered in Fire sauce.
“I…I don’t know! I…I’m not sure what’s come over me! IN MERCY’S NAME…THREE TACOS ARE ALL I NEED! Arggh! There I go again!”
A Misérable Condition
Look, I’m no psychiatrist, but I can recognize a DSM-V diagnosis of Acute on Chronic Misérables Syndrome any day of the week. Way back in medical school, we all recognized that poor Harry possessed many of the risk factors for the development of this potentially crippling affliction:
Hey, who said being a med student was nothing but scut?
- He was prone to spouting French translations of outdated American street slang: “Doctor Harry est dans la maison, oui! OUI???”
- He worked as an understudy—for one of the tigers—in the Sigfried and Roy show.
- His vanity license plates read “LAME IS”
L’intervention
Before his transformation into a Taiwanese Neil Patrick Harris became irreversible.
Medical Record Number 24601! Lyrics and download here!
Lyrics to The Confrontation: A Les Misérables Parody
This patient’s obviously going nowhere. He’s got no pants and he needs a SNF!
Docs like you can never change. A doc such as you…
Docs like you can never change, hospitalists can never change!
ED life you’ll never understand!
You can write your long-ass note, I just cric’d this old guy’s throat!
You can fixate on your labs, I’ll work on my rock hard abs!
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Brilliant! Another great video by ZDogg & Dr. Harry!
Nice job boys! Could you write off the Broadway tickets as a business expense? If so, I’ll do so ‘Wicked’ parodies!
Thanks yo! And everyone make sure to check out Dr. Raymond’s kick ass video promoting colonoscopy at 45 for African Americans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSpyaGgA4rs
This is bloody brilliant!
Loved it!
Could be the best ZDoggMD and Dr Harry effort yet!
Chris
These ED vs Medicine videos are so entertaining!! You have the all the characterizations down perfectly hahahaha. And y’all have nice voices too
. Will this be available for mp3 download? You are on last.fm! http://www.last.fm/music/Zdoggmd
Cool! Thanks for the link, I had no idea. I’ve added the song to our Lyrics and Download page from the drop-down menu at the top of my site. Or go directly here: http://zdoggmd.com/the-confrontation-lyrics-and-download/
Awesome
I only wish I was as cool as Dr Harry
He is now becoming an ER icon -- a beacon of hope for all us struggling cellar dwellers -- you bring a new vigour and meaning to our existence, and inspire us to keep referring on
Thank you
Thanks, Mike. As a method actor, I can honestly say that my brief stint playing a pretend ED doc has changed me for the better. I no longer cry during codes, and I just sprouted my first ever goatee hair! Cheers!
Don’t quit your day job.
You, sir, have made a very powerless enemy! This gives me flashbacks to my numerous rejections from those so-called “experts” at Julliard. Actually, they refused to even send me an application…
Incredible…truly you guys are an inspiration to all aspiring artists of the medical parody everywhere.
COPD is almost done…will send your way when finished! -- PSR
Word!
Any chance that you’ll put the psych patient’s/doctor’s (sometimes, you can never tell the difference) lyrics up?
Ah, those are verbatim from “Castle on a Cloud” from Les Mis:
There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren’t any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
Excellent.
RENT transformed to RANT?
CANDIDE transformed to CanZDogg: The Best of all Possible Wards
or how about The ZDogg Family?
I have always wanted to do The Zound of Music with the ZDogg Family Players. “This gauge is 16F going on 17…”
I loved it!
dude, could be your best effort yet. usually i watch the videos thinking if i weren’t so lazy i could do something like that, slowly moving away from the total glamour of academic hospitalist medicine to such accolades as being mentioned on “today’s hospitalist” but this video takes you to the next level.
Uh, thanks…I think?
I don’t think I’m “On My Own” here when I say that when it comes to musical parodies, “At the End of the Day” Z Dogg is the “Master of the House”! I hope we won’t have to wait “One Day More” to see the next installment! “Who Am I”? Well let’s just say I’m a big fan and “I Dreamed a Dream” that there was more comedy on the way from Z Dogg!
I believe this comment has 24601 letters in it.
Fantastic, simply fantastic. This touched in some very special places… Indeed, the truly timeless story of revolution, conflict, justice, and redemption (ED/MEDICINE) adapted to a Broadway musical about unrelated issues in France is genius. Glad to know that the high quality work will continue in Vegas. Best wishes.
Word! Glad your fancy was tickled. Fantastic site you’ve got there, BTW! Medical parodists…recognize!!
I love it!!! It is a classic!
It always amazes me how much time us doctors spend arguing over who accepts responsibility for admission of a patient in the public…. in ED we used to joke that we had to offer our first-born child as bribery to get a bed!
Psych is a good option to remember though, haha! Thanks for a great parody.