The PennMed Ultrasounds: Extravasating Extravaganza

The PennMed Ultrasounds reviews hematology with the MS1 class in Reunion Hall on Feb 06, 2009. "Hemophilia," sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "The Longest Time," was written by Andrew Stern.

Sopranos: Anita Lyons, Aditi Sagdeo, Chony Lu
Altos: Laury Rosefort, Morgan Sellers
Tenors: Brian Finkelman, Andrew Stern
Basses: Sesh Sundararaman, Dan Adler, Eric Ojerholm, Chia Wu, Yin Li
(You can't see us, but, yes, we are actually there....)

Special thanks to: Dr. Haig Kazazian (for graciously allowing us to use his name and image), Dr. Skip Brass (for unwittingly sharing lecture time with us), and Chris Thom (for videotaping us).

Lyrics (by Andrew Stern):

Whoaaa Hemophilia
Whoaaa Hemophilia

Hemarthrosis, joints are freakin' huge
Ecchymosis, not just any bruise
This bleeding's so bad
Much worse than any I've had
It surely must be hemophilia

This boy's making zero factor eight
Like his uncle; it's an X-linked trait
It's a mutation
Flip-tip recombination
Just ask the expert Haig Kazazian

Whoaaa Hemophilia
Whoaaa Hemophilia

Check his PT, perfectly okay
PTT's so long I might go grey
Give him correction
He's got a predilection
To bleed and bleed it's hemophilia

Queen Victoria carried the gene
Then it got passed
To the Russian regime
Prince Alexei got the disease
The swelling in his knees
Was then healed by Rasputin

First unclear, but now it's understood
Why the rabbis said in the Talmud:
Don't cut his foreskin
The first two boys of his kin
Both sadly died of hemophilia

Found in one in ten thousand kids
It's not very fun
But better than SIDS
Look at his chart, check out his name
We know who to blame
He was born "Romanovsky"

Looks like we've just saved this child's life
Now I've got to go home to my wife
You want to look svelte?
Just tuck your tie in your belt
Just like the expert Haig Kazazian

Whoaaa Hemophilia
Whoaaa Hemophilia
Whoaaa Hemophili-
Alto solo: Haig Kazaziaaaaan
Tutti: Ahhhhhhhhhhh

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