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Oakland Tribune - Sunday, October 25, 1981
by George Estrada, Tribune Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - You get up bright and early, too early...
Doctor George "Skip" Gay with the Rock Medicine' crew
handles crises at concerts |
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Sonic Swoon Ageless rockers not for the faint of heart.
The Daily Californian. November 10, 1995 By Jim Abrams
So I regained consciousness in the concrete office of the Warfield's
resident "Rock Med" (she was sooo hip, you know)..... |
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| A photo of the Rock Medicine tent at the
Tibetan
Freedom Concert at the Polo Fields, San Francisco, CA. June 15th &
16th, 1996. This Jpeg Photo is 150K and will take 2.5 minutes to load at
28.8 baud. If you want to print it, do it Landscape.;-) |
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Moshing Exciting but dangerous. By Martha Irvine
The Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb 1996 - Some call them a testament to testosterone.
They are mosh pits... |
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TheTripper's Manual, Psychedelics are unpredictable.
Environment plays a very strong part in each person’s general reaction.
By
Guido the Guide |
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Jack McCloskey, 1942-96, who spent half his
life as a Rock Medicine volunteer and was also a wounded and much-decorated
veteran of the Vietnam War who quietly spent the rest of his life trying
to ease the pain from that war, has died. He was 53. |
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Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads
by David Shenk and Steve Silberman
...He has no rules (Superego) or reason (Ego). He is his own
universe. We become the rules, and provide an 'alternative ego' until ... |
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West Coast Medics keep fans Dancing
By Anthony Head (eMail),
Relix Magazine August 1995
On Saturday morning at 9:15, the sun over Las Vegas was already high
and hot. A heat wave rolled into the celebrated Sin City about mid-week... |
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Rock & Roll Docs By Brad
Kava (eMail),
San Jose Mercury News on March 6, 1995.
Joel, 23, a T-shirt designer from North Dakota, doesn't know how he
ended up on the floor of the Oakland Coliseum, naked, staring up at five
security officers at a recent Grateful Dead show... |
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The Medicine Show By Marcy
Sheiner (eMail),
San Francisco Bay Guardian on June 28, 1995.
It's 10 minutes before show time. Kids, feverish with excitement, roam
the halls, bathrooms, and auditorium of ... |
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From Masters of Kung Fu, October 1994, pp56-61.
Chinese Lion Dancing and the Good Ol' Grateful
Dead By Gene Ching, a Rock
Medicine Volunteer. |
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Doc of Rock By Shawn Bates,
Image Magazine on October 22, 1988.
By 8:45 p.m. the Rock Med room at the Cow Palace, where Ozzy Osbourne
is playing, looks like a cross between a battlefield and a backstage party.
Half a dozen bodies... |
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Life after the Dead By Craig Heaps, CNN
on December 10, 1995. Web posted at: 7:50 p.m. EST
It was a culture, a philosophy, an industry, and a charity. Now The
Grateful
Dead is gone. |
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Santa and the DEAD By Scott Winokur,
San Francisco Examiner on December 20, 1994.
Midlife medics help youthful rock fans who tripped and can't get down.
Santa weaves through a Grateful Dead audience at the ... |
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On the Cover:
George “Skip” Gay, MD ’61, watches over a crowd at an outdor concert
in Sacramento, Calif., in the early 1980’s Gay helped create Rock Medicine,
a program that provides health care at concerts, and pioneered the treatment
of drug abuse at the free clinic hr helped establish in Haight-Ashbury.
Now 70, he remain a leader in Rock Medicine and an inspiration to hundreds
of volunteers who follow his philosophy for health care. |
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 Nurses
Who Rock
Rock Med volunteers such as Joel Williams, RN, Michele Ferreira, RN, and
Kathy Ferris, RN, are often so busy treating concert patrons that they don’t get
to see or hear any of the shows at which they work. (Click Here for full
Article)
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Stories about Haight Ashbury Free Clinics |
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| Dr Smith Talks about "The Social and Economic Consequences of Addiction
in America at Commonwealth
Club on January 9, 1996, San Francisco, CA. .....''Drug abuse represents
our biggest national public health problem'' |
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Dr Smith Just-Say-Yes
Generation By Maitland Zane,
San Francisco Chronicle on July 2, 1995.
Doctor to the Just-Say-Yes Generation / Nearly three decades after
he founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Dr. David Smith believes the
country is facing more serious health problems than ever before... |
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As Seen on VH1 TV
Remember that all the Rock Medicine Staff,
whether the Supply Crew or the Doctor of the Show,
they're all Volunteers
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VH1 About - - VH1
episode 1 -
VH1 episode 2 |
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VH1 TV
(check your TV Guide for 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
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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.
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