KFI: A Eugene, Oregon-based musician who was nearly killed by a diverticulitis attack last year says the doctors who performed a series of life-saving surgeries on him played heavy metal in the operating room.
That musician/patient was guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt. The music the doctors played was by Scheidt’s own influential underground metal band Yob.
Scheidt recalled during a recent interview with Rolling Stone surrounding his band’s upcoming eighth studio album that during the highest-stakes operation he underwent (a marathon procedure that took nearly 9 hours) Scheidt’s doctors put on his own music. They hoped, he surmised, that even in his anesthetized state the familiar sounds would urge his body to keep working. read more
The surgeons I worked with listened to country music, bragged about cars, and cracked jokes trying to impress the cutest OR nurses.
I wonder if they played that Ronnie James Dio song: Holy Diverticulitis.
Surgeons playing the music (?) of metal band Yob, as a patient I would have thought there is no reason to live, I have gone to hell.
So maybe not a good idea to play “Close to the Edge” (Yes) or “Brain Damage” (Pink Floyd)?
Paint It Black
With that awful racket how’d they keep the patient asleep?
No Musician worth his salt will NOT perk up when someone else plays his music.
Last time I had surgery I woke with an urge for french fries that lasted for at least a month. The surgeon must have ordered lunch .
Apparently, this is not unusual. I was stunned the first time I heard this actually occurred. My preference would be NO DISTRACTION, such as music during a medical procedure.
“Stairway to Heaven” was ixnayed….
I’m surprised they didn’t just cut out his heart and eat it.
@willysgoatgruff: So was “Highway to Hell”, I’m betting.
I guess the lyrics of ‘Mad World’ (I’m partial to Gary Jules version) probably wouldn’t help with a patient with sketchy chances going in.
Let the bodies hit the floor!🤣
WTF is a Yob?
Now I gotta look. 😬