Docs caught between rock and hard place in pandemic
AN ICU director and a neurologist are fighting Covid-19 frontline fatigue through music and have formed a band together during lockdown to keep ‘sane’.
Dr Enda O’Connor, ICU director at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, and Dr Brian Murray, neurologist at the Hermitage Medical Clinic, have been playing music together for years, even alongside well-known immunologist Dr Luke O’Neill in his band The Metabollix.
In April 2020 they decided to work on some new music together to help distract from the difficulties of dealing with Covid-19 on the frontline and their band, Serial Sevens, was formed.
They recently released three tracks on Spotify, Too Much, A Star Is Bored and Only Now. Dr Murray, a father of two, described them as a band where ‘you never know what you’re going to get’ with inspiration taken from the music of the ’80s and ’90s.
Dr O’Connor, a father of three, said it was their way of keeping ‘sane’ as Covid-19 stretched every aspect of the health service.