HAIGHT ASHBURY FREE CLINICS ROCK MEDICINE
REALITY SHOW TO PREMIERE ON VH-1
San Francisco, CA-The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Rock Medicine Program
will be featured on a new reality series entitled Rock Med premiering on VH1
on Friday, April 25.
Two premiere screening parties benefiting the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
will be held to kick off the series. The first premiere party will be
held on Wednesday, April 23 at Studio Z, 314 Eleventh Street (at Folsom) in
San Francisco at 8 p.m. The cover charge is $10 and proceeds will benefit the
Free Clinics. Live music will be provided. Tickets can be purchased in advance
at www.ticketweb.com.
NEW LOCATION
The second benefit screening
will be
held on Friday, April 25 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Hanauma Bay, 1548
California Street (between Polk and Larkin Streets) San Francisco. There will
be no cover charge but a percentage of the bar sales will be donated to the
Free Clinics.
The Haight Ashbury Rock Medicine Program provides emergency medical
services, triage and first aid for audiences at rock concert venues throughout
Northern California. Last year, Rock Medicine and its 350 active volunteers
covered 450 shows at 23 venues.
The VH1 Rock Med series follows the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Rock
Medicine staff at various concert venues as they encounter a wild assortment
of audience members who need medical assistance or treatment for excessive
drug or alcohol use. The series will be repeated throughout the weekend of
April 25-28 on VH1. Consult your local television listings for exact times.
For more information about the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Rock Medicine
Program, please call (415) 487-3681 or contact
www.hafci.org
April 17, 2003. Press Contact: Forrest Gok (415) 561-5215
Coming Soon: "Rock Med" the Video VH1
(UPDATED 4/10/03)
Starting Friday, April 25th
6 showings during the weekend
[Click
Here for VH1 Times]
Join the volunteers of Rock Medicine as they are deployed to
dozens of concerts throughout the area, covering all types of music and all
types of cases. While the medical teams will provide the series with recurring
characters, they won't be the sole focus of the program. In each half-hour,
we'll also get to know the patients, music loving people of all types, who end
up in the medical tent thanks to some combination of carelessness, enthusiasm,
and bad luck. Some of their stories will be light-hearted and humorous, others
will be moving, perhaps even tragic. 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.
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.
On the concert floor medic Mike Hazlett and nurse practitioner
Physician Assistant Sylvia Davies
wind their way through the crowd armed with walkie-talkies and a first aid kit.
They eye the crowd looking for trouble---for glassy eyed exhaustion cases or
over zealous stage divers. On any given night they'll treat between 10 and 30
patients over the course of a two-and-a-half-hour concert. "Sometimes I want to
sit down and enjoy the music," says Hazlett, "But I know the minute we relax,
someone's going to pass out in front of us."
Rieland, Hazlett and Davies are a volunteers in a San Francisco-based program
called "Rock Medicine," a one-of-a-kind, non-profit group that tends to the
wounded at every major concert in the Bay Area. Hundreds of volunteer
physicians, nurses, EMTs, and other medical professionals dedicate long hours
and late nights to the program, travelling from a Metallica show in San Jose one
night to an 'N SYNC concert in Sacramento the next. When someone at a concert is
sick or injured Rock Medicine's volunteers are on hand to provide a safety net.
The volunteers come from all backgrounds and all medical specialties, united
only by their commitment to help people and their passion for music.
This commitment and passion will drive a new 8 part prime-time television series
called Rock Med. Each week we'll join the volunteers of Rock Medicine as they
are deployed to dozens of concerts throughout the area, covering all types of
music and all types of cases. While the medical teams will provide the series
with recurring characters, they won't be the sole focus of the program. In each
half-hour, we'll also get to know the patients - music loving people of all
types who end up in the medical tent thanks to some combination of carelessness,
enthusiasm, and bad luck. Some of their stories will be light-hearted and
humorous, others will be moving, perhaps even tragic. 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.
Join the volunteers of Rock Medicine as they are
deployed to dozens of concerts throughout the area, covering all types
of music and all types of cases. While the medical teams will provide
the series with...
In each half-hour, we'll also get to know the patients, music loving
people of all types, who end up in the medical tent thanks to some
combination of carelessness, enthusiasm, and bad luck. Some of their
stories will be light-hearted and humorous, others will be moving,
perhaps even tragic. 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.[VH1 Intro] [VH1
Episode 1] [VH1 Episode 2] |
About the Series
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/rock_med/series_about.jhtml
Series Showtimes
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/rock_med/series_showtimes.jhtml
Featured Episodes
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/rock_med/featured_episodes.jhtml
The First Press Release from VH1
