Abstract
Popular music and song lyrics can impact audiences in their millions. A focus on doctors in popular songs has centred on doctors as healers, drug providers, sexual partners, or sexual offenders. To some extent, authors of popular song lyrics describing doctors seem to be attracted to the possible sinister and dark sides of a doctor’s conduct. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of music types that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population.1,2 Songwriters and musicians, just like everyone else, depend on the assistance of doctors in life so their songs may reflect those experiences.3 Many of these songs represent one of a few types of descriptions of the medical profession. Since the first version of ‘Lovesick Blues’ was released by Emmett Miller in 1928, numerous songs about being unhappy in love have been written. In many of them the doctor is presented as a healer of …
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