The concert is in full swing and the medical tent is filling up. Feedback rattles the walls, guitar chords fall like hammer blows, and the floor is swirling with sweaty kids rocking out to the music. Hardly an ideal place to practice medicine. But in rooms backstage at concerts all over northern California the volunteer medical professionals of Rock Medicine care for sick and injured fans.
Here are a few of the scenarios this episode covers:
Ryan, a 17 year old kid, stumbles into the medical tent. He has a huge gash over his left eye and blood running down his face, he's going to need stitches. As Dr. Tris prepares to stitch Ryan up, Korn starts to play Ryan's favorite song so he begs Dr. Tris to let him go back to the show to hear it before he gets his stitches. Tris gives him an icepack and tells him, "come back later and I'll stitch you up." After the song Tris stitches Ryan's eyebrow and sends him back out into the crowd to enjoy the rest of the show.
Karen didn't know she was standing next to Korn's mosh-pit until she got head butted. Dr. Tris treats her for a fat lip and swollen eye and sends her back to the concert. She watches the rest of the show in the safety of the seats instead of venturing back out to the floor.
Mark was also in Korn's mosh-pit when he got pushed to the ground and broke his wrist. He had way too much to drink and has trouble making decisions. Finally, Penny, the nurse practitioner talks him into going to the hospital by ambulance to get his wrist set.
At the String Cheese Incident concert Sylvia, a physician's assistant, and the other Rock Medicine volunteers are dancing in the medical tent when Jennifer limps into the room. She jumped and landed on her foot wrong. Sylvia gives it the once over and thinks there's a chance Jennifer broke a tiny bone in her foot. She wraps it and recommends Jennifer get an x-ray to see if it's broken. Later Jennifer finds out Sylvia was right, her foot is broken.
Lauren was in the front row at Creed when the crowd rushed the stage and crushed her against the barricade. She became dizzy and disoriented. Finally she managed to climb out of the crowd and get to the medical tent where she was treated for crowd syndrome.
Andy was trying to mosh his way up to the front of the crowd so he could show his girlfriend "the front row of the concert". He ended up in a fight with security. Security brings him to the Rock Med tent where he drunkenly rants and raves about how he was mistreated. Dr. Gary lets him vent and calms him down. Later security throws him out of the venue.
By following each story from the injury in the mosh-pit to the reunion with their friends back in the crowd, the show will bring out real human stories that play out beneath the glamorous world of rock music. Built around the real-life tales of music loving people, Rock Med will give audiences an exciting new vision of what music television can be.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc.
Dr David Smith Founder
Darryl Inaba CEO

Rock Medicine
Glenn Raswyck, Director
Raz@RockMed.org

612 Clayton St
San Francisco, CA 94117 
415-487-3681

www.RockMed.org
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This DVD-R Show List:
1) VH-1 Video Episode 2 ( 22 minutes )
2) Local TV5 Magazine   Rock Med @ EE ( 10 minutes )
3) VH-1 Video Episode 1 ( 22 minutes )
4) VH-1 Video Episode 0 Pilot ( 22 minutes )
5) Black Jon Farewell   ( 10 minutes )

          Rock Medicine 30th Anniversary  1973-2003