Crescendo Decrescendo

Crescendo Decrescendo

By Benjamin Vipler MD MEd, Samuel Porter MD, Paul Haidet MD MPHMusicMusic Commentary
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Crescendo Decrescendo episodes

  • Anesthesiology - Headliner: Dr. Steven Bradley

    Join Ben and Sam as they interview anesthesiologist/musician Dr. Steven Bradley to see what insights he has on the parallels between the medical specialty of anesthesiology and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Dr. Steven Bradley
    -@StevenBradleyMD
    -The Black Doctors Podcast
    -The Sinking of Sedasys
    -“The Weight of the Pager on My Hip”: Lightening the Load of Empathy on Critical Care Physicians by Understanding its Limitations, A Qualitative Study
    -The Creative Act: A Way of Being Hardcover by Rick Rubin
    -Robert Glasper: “Jazz is the mother of hip-hop”



    52 min
  • Anesthesiology - Opening Act

    Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of anesthesiology and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Modular synthesizer
    -Wendy Carlos
    -Keith Emerson plays Bach backwards on his Hammond!
    -Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Buchla Music Easel
    -Moog synthesizer
    -John Cage: 4'33'' / Petrenko · Berliner Philharmoniker
    -Mitch Hedberg
    -The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (Live at Bonnaroo 2007)
    -Metallica: ...And Justice for All (original vs remastered)
    -L.S. Dunes vs Thursday
    -Tajbakhsh A, Salimi S, Daftarian N, Abtahi D. Effect of Music During General Anesthesia on Anesthetic Consumption During Vitrectomy Surgery. Adv Biomed Res. 2023;12:59. Published 2023 Mar 21. doi:10.4103/abr.abr_444_22
    -J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
    -Deliberate practice
    -Designing a Hospital for Innovation
    -Google’s ’20% rule’ shows exactly how much time you should spend learning new skills—and why it works
    -When David Crosby Heard John Coltrane Play Saxophone in a Bathroom
    -Thelonious Monk Quartet - 'Round Midnight

    52 min
  • Emergency Medicine - Headliner: Dr. Christopher Hahn

    Join Ben and Sam as they interview ER physician/musician Dr. Christopher Hahn to see what insights he has on the parallels between the medical specialty of emergency medicine and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Dr. Christopher Hahn, The EMC
    -2Pac - All Eyez On Me
    -Outkast - ATLiens
    -JAY-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
    -JAY-Z - Renegade
    -What We Can Learn From Bruce Springsteen’s Great Left Turn
    -The Tully Show (Talk of Ages) featuring Mark McGrath
    -Big L freestyle
    -Liu, S., Chow, H., Xu, Y. et al. Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap. Sci Rep 2, 834 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00834
    -Husain A, Repanshek Z, Singh M, et al. Consensus Guidelines for Digital Scholarship in Academic Promotion. West J Emerg Med. 2020;21(4):883-891. Published 2020 Jul 8. doi:10.5811/westjem.2020.4.46441



    53 min
  • Emergency Medicine - Opening Act

    Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of emergency medicine and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -The Ventures - Wipe Out
    -The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
    -The Ventures - Pipeline
    -Dick Dale - Miserlou
    -Black Country, New Road - Track X
    -Lil Wayne Talks Tha Carter V and Memorizing His Own Song Lyrics for Performances
    -8 Mile | Eminem's Final Rap Battles
    -Supernatural: 6 minute Freestyle
    -Playing wrong Notes in Jazz - Herbie Hancock on Miles Davis, a fantastic Story about mistakes

    41 min
  • Radiology - Headliner: Dr. Dana Ataya

    Join Ben and Sam as they interview radiologist/musician Dr. Dana Ataya to see what insights she has on the parallels between the medical specialty of radiology and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Dr. Dana Ataya (@DanaAtayaMD)
    -The ReMissions
    -Tampa Bay Rays National Anthem
    -A reason for being
    -Stevens K. Patients' perceptions of music during surgery. J Adv Nurs. 1990;15(9):1045-1051. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01985.x
    -"...applicants with humanities majors had an acceptance rate into medical school of 46.16%, a higher rate than any other category of applicant..."
    -Elevator music NOT elevator music.

    43 min
  • Radiology - Opening Act

    Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of radiology and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man
    -Daft Punk: Doin' it Right ft. Panda Bear
    -Vocoder
    -Stanley Joel Reiser: Medicine and the Reign of Technology
    -Positivism vs. Post-positivism (and Constructivism)
    -Don Delillo: White Noise
    -Can artificial intelligence pass the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists examination? Multi-reader diagnostic accuracy study
    -Steve Reich: It's Gonna Rain
    -Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room
    -Steve Reich: Different Trains
    -Petit Biscuit: Sunset Lover

    41 min
  • Psychiatry - Headliner: Dr. Kari Groff

    Join Ben and Sam as they interview psychiatrist/musician Dr. Kari Groff to see what insights she has on the parallels between the medical specialty of psychiatry and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Dr. Kari Groff
    -The Bright Siders
    -Punch Brothers
    -Herbie Hancock
    -Jason Isbell - Flagship
    -Birth, death, and resurrection of the physical examination: clinical and academic perspectives on bedside diagnosis

    43 min
  • Psychiatry - Opening Act

    Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of psychiatry and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Animal Collective - My Girls
    -Ravi Shankar - Morning Raga
    -Phish, Grateful Dead
    -Shoutout to the smarter Dr. Vipler... Erin, Palliative Care doc extraordinaire. 
    -Why does it always catch me completely off guard when a patient asks how I’m doing
    -Batzorig Vaanchig- Mongolian Throat Singing
    -John Coltrane - Interstellar Space (free jazz)
    -Andreas Vollenweider - White Winds (new age)
    -Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Live at Red Rocks 2023 (Ben's pick)

    45 min
  • Pediatrics - Headliner: Dr. Lisa Wong

    Join Ben and Sam as they interview pediatrician/musician Dr. Lisa Wong to see what insights she has on the parallels between the medical specialty of pediatrics and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -Dr. Lisa Wong
    -Scales to Scalpels
    -Dr. Wong's talk in Sante Fe
    -El Sistema USA
    -Music lessons: what musicians can teach doctors (and other health professionals)
    -Centre for Performance Science
    -Longwood Symphony Orchestra
    -National Virtual Medical Orchestra
    -Eureka Ensemble: Boston Hope Music
    -Dr. Ronald Hirschberg
    -Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach

    45 min
  • Pediatrics - Opening Act

    Join Ben, Sam, and Paul as they explore the parallels between the medical specialty of pediatrics and various musical genres!

    Mentions in the episode:
    -H.M.S. Pinafore: When I was a Lad
    -Big Data: Private Eyes
    -Alex Melton
    -Live a Version
    -John Mayer: Kid A & Free Fallin'
    -Dishwalla: It's Going to Take Some Time
    -Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Melody Gardot & Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
    -The Penguins: Earth Angel
    -Joe Thomas, MD
    -Our Last Night
    -Postmodern Jukebox

    33 min

About Crescendo Decrescendo

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Thanks for listening to Crescendo Decrescendo: Music & the Practicing Clinician!  We're your hosts, Ben Vipler, Sam Porter, and Paul Haidet, three musically-inclined clinicians who started…