Anemia

[Mr. Average]

I am lecturing today on Blood Transfusion management to a group of surgeons, intensivists, and anesthesiologists. A core concept is 'anemia', a condition where the blood does not contain enough capacity to carry oxygen to the tissues. Severe anemia = death. Moderate = brain damage etc.

Elvis has used the word anemia and anemic in a song or two or three, but as I prepare I can hear him use the term, but I can't pinpoint to melody or song, and it is driving me craxy.



I would like to quote Elvis in the lecture with the use of the word anemia. "Blood" is too easy...
Can you help?

[Who Shot Sam?]

Can't think of a single EC song with the word "anemia" in it. Are you sure you're not thinking of "100% Amnesia"?

[BlueChair]

or 20%?

[Mr. Average]

I think he used it in one of the first three recordings, but I can't pinpoint it. Thanks WSS, I cleared that song but I swear he rhymed it with something and I recall, as a physiologist, it was cool. Later, that line would be upstaged by "Live" from "Throwing Copper" (from Scranton, near Dunder-Mifflin Paper Products), when they sang "The Placenta falls to the floor"

You gotta love a band that uses the word "placenta" in a rock song.

[Who Shot Sam?]

or 20%?

Doh. Right. "100% Amnesia" is the extended remix.

[migdd]

There was also that half-baked version, 50% Amnesia, which I think was an outtake from WIWC.

[miss buenos aires]

I can't help you with that, Mr. A, but I do have borderline anemia! Sometimes they won't let me give blood, and my boss is always telling me I look too pale, but I think that's just because I wear SPF on my face every day. I'm sure this little tidbit will be fascinating to your audience...

[Mr. Average]

Whatever you do, try to build your hemoglobin with iron supplementation and herbal alternatives. Avoid transfusions at all cost. Blood transfusions are harmful, and the growing evidence base is incontrovertable: transfused blood is an organ transplant and the attendant risks far outweight the gains. So supplement and build your base to thwart iron-deficient anemia. You don't want blood. It ain't what we used to think it was...

[Who Shot Sam?]

My wife currently has the opposite problem - a surfeit of iron in her blood. The doctor has encouraged her to give more regularly, which should help matters.

[miss buenos aires]

I take an iron suppplement and give blood whenever they let me...

[mood swung]

Be sure to take iron with vitamin C to increase absorption!




God, I sound just like my mother.