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Original Music Video<\/h3>\n

Check out<\/span> MD\/PhD Diss Track<\/a> from MD\/PhD students Neelou Etesami and Anthony Yeung!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Music<\/h3>\n

“Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu<\/a>,” performed by Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Rivers, Professor Longhair, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith, as well as many others<\/p>\n

“It Ain’t Pneumonia, It’s the Blues<\/a>,” by John Anderson<\/p>\n

“Come in You’ll Get Pneumonia<\/a>,” by The Easybeats<\/p>\n

“Dust Pneumonia Blues<\/a>,” by Woody Guthrie<\/p>\n

“Pneumonia<\/a>,” by Kool & the Gang<\/p>\n

“Pneumonia<\/a>,” by Bjork<\/p>\n

“pneumoniaA<\/a>,” by deM atlaS<\/p>\n

“Pneumonia<\/a>” album by Whiskeytown<\/p>\n

The song “I’ll never fall in love again,” written by Burt Bacharach, has the following great lines:
\nWhat do you get when you kiss a girl?
\nYou get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
\nAfter you do, she’ll never phone ya.
\nI’ll never fall in love again.<\/p>\n

Willie Nelson’s “The Devil Shivered in his Sleepin’ Bag<\/a>” is a story about a rough road trip, starting of course with pneumonia.<\/p>\n

Art<\/h3>\n

WPA poster<\/a> – Pneumonia strikes like a man-eating shark<\/p>\n

Toys & Games<\/h3>\n

Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/em> and other pneumni-causing microbes as stuffed dolls<\/a><\/p>\n

Sports<\/h3>\n

Pneumonia Ridge<\/a> is a ski run at Turner Mountain Ski Resort in Montana.<\/p>\n

Culture<\/h3>\n

Old Rip<\/a> was a Horned Toad who according to legend survived 31 years within the cornerstone of a Texas county courthouse to become the inspiration for Michigan J. Frog, the 1955 cartoon character who performs (including the singing of “Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal\u2026”) only for the man who found him. Unfortunately, Old Rip \u2013 the remarkable survivalist \u2013 was unable to overcome pneumonia, dying of it within a year of his rescue from the cornerstone.<\/p>\n

Jokes<\/h3>\n

Found on the web without attribution…<\/em><\/p>\n

Patient: Doc, are you certain pneumonia’s the diagnosis? My uncle was being treated for pneumonia but he died of meningitis.<\/p>\n

Doctor: Don’t worry about that. If I treat you for pneumonia, then you die of pneumonia.<\/p>\n

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A patient went to see the doctor because of a terrible cold. The doctor prescribed pills, but they didn’t help. At the next visit, the doctor administered a shot, to no avail. At the third visit the doctor advised “Go home and take a warm bath. When you finish, throw open your windows and stand in the cold draft.”<\/p>\n

The patient replied “Doc, if I do that, I might get pneumonia.”<\/p>\n

“I know,” said the doctor, “I can do something for pneumonia.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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