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Posted on: November 19, 2007 8:00 AM, by Sandra Kiume
I couldn't wait for Multimedia Friday to post this video, it's just too funny.
I Am the Very Model of a Psychopharmacologist is set to Gilbert and Sullivan's classic song with animation. Created by Stephen M Stahl, MD, PhD, of the Neurosciences Education Institute, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, author of Essential Psychopharmacology. Credentials for neuropsychopharmacological hilarity.
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That's hilarious! Maybe his alter ego is this Stephen M. Stahl.
Posted by: The Neurocritic | November 19, 2007 2:08 PM
Very funny!
It has more than a passing similarity to Tom Lehrer's "the Elements," which lists the periodic table in under a minute and a half:
http://itl.chem.ufl.edu/2045/audio/TheElements.mp3
Posted by: Johan | November 19, 2007 7:38 PM
Thanks! It seems to be a popular song for alternate lyrics. There's another about a singularitarian:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qnreVTKtpMs
Posted by: Sandra Kiume | November 19, 2007 10:33 PM
That absolutely made my day!
Posted by: Sam | November 20, 2007 12:53 PM
Simply brilliant
Posted by: bluthetan | November 21, 2007 3:44 PM
If you like this you will LOVE Adam Kay and Suman Biswas's "Fitness to Practice" check it out at http://www.teamkudo.com/fitness/listen.php (warning, definitely NOT suitable for work!!!) You can listen to whole tracks and buy the DVD and 10% of all proceeds go straight to Macmillan Cancer Relief. "London Underground" is hilarious and very rude and has been a big underground (get it!!!) hit in the UK.
Posted by: ecobore | November 25, 2007 6:25 AM
A must for all psychiatry and primary care residents!!
Posted by: montausl | November 25, 2007 10:05 AM
Very funny. I'll pass it on to all the shrinks I know.
Posted by: sarala | November 25, 2007 11:38 AM
Very funny..:) I download it..Thanks Sandra
Posted by: kozmetik | November 26, 2007 5:55 PM
That was the funniest thing I've heard in ages - and I love Tom Lehrer too! I'm going to send it to all my favourite trickcyclists . . .
Posted by: Mrs Hilary Victoria Minor | November 27, 2007 6:13 AM
This is so funny! It speaks (sings!) to me in so many ways... I was brought up with both my parents being into acting in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and dragged along and since then have become one myself. This is one song that keeps coming back in SO many forms.
I too must spent my afternoon now sending it to the scores (pun intended) of Gilbert and Sullivan fans I know.
Thank you!
Peace, love and understanding.
~ RubyShooZ ~
Posted by: RubyShooZ | November 27, 2007 12:33 PM
I am a musician and a psychiatric survivor. This song is brilliant and everyone who works in the 'mental health system' should be forced to listen to it to experience what it is like to have the boot on the other foot!! I am joking as I don't believe in force as it is an inhuman way to behave.
Posted by: mary maddock | December 7, 2007 11:43 AM
It�s very good article. Great site with very good look and perfect information.
Posted by: Sd card | December 22, 2007 12:05 PM
This is hilarious. I am a layman but have read and enjoyed Dr. Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology. I must share this with my psychiatrist, who I'm sure will enjoy it. I don't know a catchy term to label myself the opposite of a so-called "psychiatric survivor". Mental illness survivor? Liberated by Psy-Meds? At any rate very grateful for Dr. Stahl and at least 90% of those hardworking caring souls in the mental health field. They saved my life, my marriage, my present and future. Ditto for my wife, son daughter, various friends etc. Some people are butchered by incompetent surgeons. Diseases are misdiagnosed or mistreated in all fields by accident or mal-practice. Yet I've never seen someone term themselves a "surgery survivor" or the like. Only in the MH field do people blame the caregivers as a whole for the faults of some or the limitations of the state of the art. It took years to find a good treatment for me and it was no picnic. Hardly my doctor's fault.
Posted by: Terry Reeves | January 9, 2008 8:14 PM
I, too, can taste aspartame and dislike it. It also gives me terrible headaches.
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