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[Index]
[Rock Medicine]
[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc]
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Rock Med as seen on VH1
Episode 1
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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.
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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 a room backstage, Dr. Tris Rieland dutifully snaps on a pair of rubber
gloves and starts to sort through the casualties, triage style. First in: a
shirtless, 21-year-old guy with a mangled wrist, it's probably broken. Next to
him is a kid with a bloody gash above his left eye; he's going to need
stitches. "Battle scar, dude," observes a third bloodied youth.
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[Index]
[Rock Medicine]
[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc]

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