Medical Songs (definitive list)


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Medical Songs (definitive list)

Okay, here’s the definitive list of medical songs (songs that we’ve changed so that they apply to medicine)… enjoy

Medical Song 1

Shackles – Mary Mary: When psych patients are shackled to the bed

Medical Song 2

Venus – Bananarama: When arterial blood gas sample is venous

Medical Song 3

Harder to Breathe – Maroon 5: Short of breath patients

Medical Song 4

Breathe – The Prodigy: Specific to patients on Bipap (Breath the pressure)

Medical Song 5

Pressure Down – John Farnham: Hypertensive patients or letting air out of the pressure bags

Medical Song 6

Check On It – Beyonce: Nurses needing a drug checked

Medical Song 7

DOA – Foo Fighters: The white meat truck

Medical Song 8

Confide in Me – Kylie Minogue: Psych registrar song

Medical Song 9

Push It – Salt ‘n’ Pepa: Wardsperson/porters song/pushing IV drugs

Medical Song10

No Scrubs – TLC: Soiled uniform and need to change into scrubs

Medical Song 11

Dizzy – Spin Doctors: Dizziness

Medical Song 12

Hot In Here – Nelly: Trauma gown songs/failure of air conditioning

Medical song 13

Hot Stuff – : Skanky psych/D&A patients

Medical song 14

I Want That Man – Deborah Harry: Skanky psych/D&A patients

Medical song 15

Can You Feel It – Jackson 5: Testing neurovascular status

Medical song 16

Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees: Arrest song

Medical Song 17

Night Fever – The Bee Gees: Nocturnal Diaphoresis

Medical Song 18

Purple Pills – Eminem: Epilim song

Medical Song 19

All By Myself – Jamie O’Neal: When you sign on and there is no one to work with

Medical Song 20

Help – The Beatles: Depressed patients

Medical Song 21

Gloria – Laura Brannigan: Old grannies who are named Gloria

Medical Song 22

Come on Eileen – : Old grannies who are named Eileen

Medical Song 23

Fallin’ – Alicia Keys: #NOF’s/falls patients

Medical Song 24

Pump Up The Jam – Technotronic: Pumping the bed up/CPR song

Medical Song 25

If I Could –1927: For patients born in 1927

Medical Song 26

I Feel The Earth Move – Martika: Fat truck/obese patients/bariatric patients

Medical song 27

Slipknot:….. People = Shit

Medical Song 28

Hungry Like The Wolf – Duran Duran: Patients complaining of not getting food

Medical Song 29

Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes: 1st degree burns

Medical Song 30

Wake Me Up Before you go go – Wham: Unconscious patients/sedated patients

Medical Song 31

Broken Bones – Love Inc.: Fractures

Medical Song 32

Hold The Line – Toto: Propofol priming/CDA fluids/Ward clerks

Medical Song 33

All Fired Up – Pat Benatar: Triage nurse song

Medical Song 34

(I can’t get no) Satisfaction – Rolling Stones: Category 4/5 patients in waiting room/impotence

Medical Song 35

Heaven Help my heart – Tina Arena: AMI

Medical Song 36

What’s The Story Morning Glory? – Oasis: Handover song/priapism

Medical Song 37

Dressed for success – Roxette: Discharged patients

Medical Song 38

What About Me – Moving Pictures: Category 4/5 patients in waiting room

Medical Song 39

It’s All Been Done – Barenaked Ladies: When a nurse has done your work for you (doctors)

Medical Song 40

Rollin’ Like a River – Credence Clearwater Revival: Rolling off NART stretcher onto bed/urinary incontinence

Medical Song 41

Should I Stay or should I go – The Clash: Patients in waiting room

Medical Song 42

Disease – Matchbox 20: Infectious patients

Medical Song 43

Catch my disease – Ben Lee: Patients who cough in your face/isolation room

Medical Song 44

Patience – Guns n Roses: Whingeing relatives/patients

Medical Song 45

Reach Out – The Four Tops: Transferring patient’s via patslide

Medical Song 46

Achy Breaky Heart – Billy Ray Cyrus: Chest pain

Medical Song 47

Cheap Wine – Cold Chisel: Intoxicated patients

Medical Song 48

Yellow – Coldplay: Jaundiced patients

Medical Song 49

Knocking on heaven’s door – Guns n Roses: Bed 30/Code 4 song

Medical Song 50

Rescue Me – Aretha Franklin: Rescue truck

Medical Song 51

Stupid Girl – Garbage: Psych/OD patients

Medical Song 52

Pump It Harder – Black Eyed Peas: Cardiac arrest

Medical Song 53

The Nartbush – Tina Turner: NART

Medical Song 54

Looking out my backdoor – Credence Clearwater Revivial: PR check/polyps

Medical Song 55

Cuts like a knife – Bryan Adams: Chest tube/self harm

Medical Song 56

I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight – Cutting Crew: Self explanatory

Medical Song 57

Electric Blue – Icehouse: Song for VF arrests

Medical Song 58

Burn For You – John Farnham: Burns patients

Medical Song 59

Should Have Known Better – Richard Marx: Patients who have accidents/Drink drivers/unplanned pregnancies

Medical Song 60

The Key – Urban Cookie Collective: Buzzing for blue keys

Medical Song 61

Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash: Haemmorhoids/7/7 history of diarrhoea

Medical Song 62

Suspicious Minds – Elvis: Paranoid schizophrenics

Medical song 63

Survivor – Destiny’s Child: Patients surviving arrests

Medical Song 64

They don’t care about us – Michael Jackson: Patients in waiting room

Medical Song 65

We’re Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister: Patient refusing meds

Medical Song 66

You’re The Voice (try and understand it) – John Farnham: Expressive dysphasia

Medical Song 67

Bring Me To Life – Evanesence: Arrested patients/heroin OD

Medical Song 68

I Want Candy – Aaron Carter: Hypoglycaemic patients

Medical Song 69

Bad Medicine – Bon Jovi: DD drugs

Medical Song 70

Hit Me With Your Best Shot – Pat Benatar: Gun shot wound/IM injection

Medical Song 71

Open Your Heart – Madonna: Thoracotomy

Medical Song 72

Listen to your heart – Roxette: Heart auscultation

Medical Song 73

Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) – Jackson 5: Seizures

Medical Song 74

You’re so Vain – Carly Simon: Venipuncture/cannulation

Medical Song 75

I’m Not Crazy – Matchbox 20: Delusions of grandeur

Medical Song 76

Wake Up – Arcade Fire: Trying to rouse patient with decreased LOC

Medical Song 77

Pins & Needles – Killing Heidi: Spinal Trauma/stroke

Medical Song 78

The Remedy – Jason Mraz: Patients wanting symptomatic relief

Medical Song 79

Cigarettes Will Kill You – Ben Lee: Emphysema/COPD

Medical Song 80

Haemorrhage – Fuel: Arterial bleed

Medical Song 81

Swallow – Bush: Speech path song

Medical Song 82

You fucked up my life – Blink 182: Psych patients/unsuccessful resuscitation

Medical Song 83

Oxygen’s Gone – Die Trying: Respiratory arrest

Medical Song 84

Lets Talk About Sex – O&G Doctors

Medical Song 85

Shout – Tears for Fears: Demented screamers/waiting room

Medical Song 86

I Gotcha – Jimmy Barnes: Security guard catching scheduled patients

Medical Song 87

We Don’t Need Another Hero – Tina Turner: GS song

Medical Song 88

2/3 Ain’t bad- Meatloaf: Mortality rate

Medical Song 89

Joyride – Roxette: Ambulance psych patient transfer

Medical Son 90

Freeway of Love – Aretha Franklin:CDA

Medical song 91

Quit Playing Games with my Heart – Backstreet Boys: Cardioversion song

Medical Song 92

Dirrrty – Christina Aguilera: Code Brown

Medical Song 93

Razors Edge – ACDC: Self-harm/Bearded lady

Medical Song 94

The Wheels on the bus go round and round: Ambulances

Medical Song 95

Freak – Radiohead: Freak patients

Medical Song 96

Hit me baby one more time – Britney Spears: Alleged Assault

Medical Song 97

I Believe I Can Fly – R. Kelly: Suicidal jumpers

Medical Song 98

Tubthumping (I get knocked down) – Chumbawumba: Alleged assault/Ped vs car

Medical Song 99

Elevation – U2: ST elevation on ECG

Medical Song 100

Vertigo – U2: Dizzy patients/Meniere’s disease

Medical Song 101

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2: Sudden loss of vision

Medical Song 102

Because I Got High – Afro man: Patients on illicit drugs

Medical Song 103

Flashdance (What a feeling) – Irene Cara: Post Morphine/Ketamine administration

Medical Song 104

I Will Survive – Glora Gaynor: Patient vs NFR order

Medical Songs 105

Saltwater – Julian Lennon: When someone squirts saline in your face

Medical Songs 106

Start me up – Rolling Stones: Starting IV infusion

Medical Song 107

The Prayer – Anthony Callea: Last rites

Medical Song 108

The Drugs don’t work – The Verve

Medical Song 109

Crazy – Seal: Psych patients

Medical Song 110

Get Up – Technotronic: Mobilising patients with back pain/getting patients to ward

Medical Song 111

Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band: X-ray

Medical Song 112

From a Distance – Bette Midler: The Bryan Byers song (because he can’t see!)

Medical Song 113

U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer: Patients refusing PR

Medical Song 114

Stand By Me – John Lennon: The special song

Medical Song 115

Blowin’ in the wind – Bob Dylan: Passing flatus

Medical Song 116

You keep me hangin’ on – The Supremes: Suicidal/attempted hanging

Medical Song 117

Hang On – Help is on its way – Little River Band: CDA

Medical Song 118

Pussytown – Machine Gun Fellatio: O&G Review

Medical Song 119

New Sensation – INXS: Spinal cord patient getting feeling back in legs

Medical Song 120

Don’t leave me this way – Thelma Houston: Grannies sent back to nursing home

Medical Song 121

I like to move it – Reel 2 Reel: Constipated patients

Medical Song 123

Manic Monday – The Bangles: Mondays

Medical Song 124

I Can See Clearly Now – Jimmy Cliff: Glaucoma/post cataract surgery

Medical Song 125

Always look on the bright side of life – Monty Python: Depression

Medical Song 126

I Feel Good: James Brown – Patients on ketamine

Medical Song 127

Stay with me – Shakespeare’s sister: Patients who are sooks

Medical Song 128

Push the button – Sugababes: Arrest buzzer/ambo exit door/radiographer’s song

Medical Song 129

Feelin’ hot hot hot – Buster Poindexter: Febrile patients

Medical Song 130

All Night Long – Lionel Richie: Category 4/5 patients waiting after midnight in the waiting room

Medical Song 131

Will I ever see your face again – Angels: frequent flyer patients

Medical Song 132

Milkshake – Kelis: The ED Tony Ferguson diet

Medical Song 133

Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue: Paranoid psych patients

Medical Song 134

Goldfinger – Shirley Bassey: Doctor after a PR

Medical Song 135

Ring Ring – ABBA: Team leader phone/PR song

Medical Song 136

It’s In Your Eyes – Kylie Minogue: Foreign Body in eye

Medical Song 137

Shut Up – Black Eyed Peas: Triage patients

Medical Song 138

Seen Better Days – Pete Murray: For the patient being intubated

Medical Song 140

Everybody Hurts – R.E.M: Depressed patients/song for triage nurse to sing at triage when the patient is in pain

Medical Song 141

Don’t give up – Peter Gabriel: Resuscitating patients/Unsuccessful cannulation/ABG

Medical Song 142

Caught Up – Usher: When doctors/nurses are too busy

Medical Song 143

ABC – Jackson 5: Primary Survey

Medical Song 144

Fever – Michael Buble/Kylie Minogue: Self explanatory

Medical Song 145

Chains – Tina Arena: Patients shackled to the bed

Medical Song 146

Watching You (I See You) – Rogue Traders: Paranoid patients/ Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Medical Song 147

Dangerous – Roxette: Violent psych patients

Medical Song 148

The Only Way Is Up – Yazz: Hypotensive or bradycardic patients

Medical Song 149

Touch It – Monifah: Getting a stool sample

Medical Song 150

My Neck, My Back – Khia: Trauma patients getting a log roll

Medical Song 151

This Is How We Do It – Montell Jordan: The educator song

Medical Song 152

Shocked – Kylie Minogue: Internal defib going off/defibrillation/cardioverson

Medical Song 153

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me – Culture Club: Patients who we restrain and give Midazolam to



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