Hospital Gets Down In "Pink Glove Dance" For Breast Cancer Awareness

There are lots of ways people decide to promote awareness of breast cancer: by wearing little ribbon pins, buying sponsored pink products, doing a run/walk with friends. But this one is new to us -- The entire staff of the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore. donned pink gloves and recorded a dance to Jay Sean's "Down." Then they posted it on YouTube to the delight of anyone who secretly hopes that working at a hospital is exactly like an episode of "Scrubs."

Not surprisingly, the video has since gone viral. Here's what the staff has to say about the dancing montage on their YouTube page:

"Our employees put together this video to generate breast cancer awareness throughout our hospital system. We had a ton of fun putting this together and hope it inspires others to join in the cause."

Watch the video to check out the mad dancing skills of these surgeons and cafeteria workers:

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Comments

[PAposter]

10:49 PM on 11/18/2009

I loved that video...I smiled the entire time I watched. Think I'll watch again, hehehe!

[wallygirl8]

10:19 PM on 11/18/2009

I appreciate that it appears all the physicians, nurses, and staff are involved in this. Patient care is a group effort; my mom was recently in the hospital for an unfortunate extended stay and everyone involved in making that hospital run helped our family get through that difficult time.

[Meggie]

09:29 PM on 11/18/2009

Great video, St. Vincent's! I bet everyone there lives long healthy lives. They sure know how to lose the stress and make the workplace better!

[JNo]

09:02 PM on 11/18/2009

Adorable!
I wish my hospital had done this.

[blo1951]

07:46 PM on 11/18/2009

Awesome Video for an Awesome Cause!!!

[cceras]

06:34 PM on 11/18/2009

Cute video and great for Breast Cancer awareness!

[textynn]

06:10 PM on 11/18/2009

People are way too passive about pollution in our environment. Did you know it is legal for your town to put a school in a Superfund site. Don't believe me. It's a bona-fide fact. There are about 40 Superfund sites in my city. The school I worked in was built on the site where a refinery had operated for 70 years with stinking tank farm out back that polluted under cover of darkness. Employees of the school didn't know. Neither do all the folks that work around it and in it where dozens of businesses stand on the site and hundreds are right in the dust of it. I know, the authorities know, but they never speak of it, even when asked.

This kind of thing is why people have cancer in this country. The cure is not a pill or shot. The cure is a government that protects the people of this country from indifferent giant corporations that pollute right in our cities and neighborhoods. By the way, it is the same people that have dumped untold toxins in America's backyard that are funding the demise of health care reform in large part.

Without consistent health care for all, coupled with health care that can be revoked at any minute, these companies might risk the population being very away of Disease Clusters. These Disease Clusters could be indicators of problems that could be fixed. People could save themselves and fight cancer in the best way possible.

[Leslib]

06:04 PM on 11/18/2009

Terrific. That was fun to watch.

[lakat]

05:49 PM on 11/18/2009

This video makes me feel good and put a big smile on my face! Thanks St. Vincent!

[qthedancer]

05:37 PM on 11/18/2009

Lovely.

[Tankmaster]

05:29 PM on 11/18/2009

Outstanding!!! May God bless them all.

[Rangergirl]

04:43 PM on 11/18/2009

I enjoyed that video....Very cute...I agree with the last blogger...That new report that came out about breast cancer Mammograms being started at 50 is really scarry...THere are alot of women who are diagnosed earlier than 50....This will lead to alot more deaths among women...I wonder if people who sent down this new standard.....Have to be men....I also think the insurance companies will jump on this band wagon so they don't have to pay for mammos for the young...Scarry...

[rejoyce5]

04:30 PM on 11/18/2009

Its time to let your feelings be know about the STUPID report that came out about no mammograms before 50 and the suggestion of not doing self -breast exams. What planet do these people live on? Do they not realize how many lives have been saved by early detection??? I have told my 3 daughters about the importance of doing self exams and will continue to do so. I am really outrage by this.

[walsenberg]

10:20 PM on 11/18/2009

Please don't be so outraged. Let me tell you a story. A long time ago, babies in the US were the only babies being placed on their tummies to sleep, even when data showed that babies sleeping on their backs was a healthier option (decreased SIDS deaths), however, due to reasons unknown (maybe ego???), the Pediatrics Association of America had always recommended tummy sleeping even though the evidence was against tummy sleeping. AND it took them a long time to ADMIT they were WRONG.

Today, back sleeping for babies is taught to all new mothers and tummy sleeping is discouraged.

Moral of the story, just because it has "always been done that way" doesn't mean it is right.

You can't always trust the medical profession.

[W i l l]

04:29 PM on 11/18/2009

It's highly unfortunate that many breast cancer awareness campaigns and promotions...have an unintended consequence that may ultimately contribute to the spread of breast cancer.

ie...the manufacturing process of the dyes of most things pink, video equipment used to record and air promotions, motor vehicle pollutants, BPAs in the plastics of pink ribbon-esque items, even the ever present worry of the power grid itself, used to energize the distribution of this video...are all suspect of leading to and or triggering the onset of breast cancer.

There's money to be had in breast cancer awareness...at that point, profit becomes the priority while health, safety and potential unintended consequences become non-factors.

[ruoth]

09:15 PM on 11/18/2009

so whats your suggestion?? Why name this long litany of problems and not suggest any solution.. get rid of the power grid?? Whats your solution!!!!

[walsenberg]

10:22 PM on 11/18/2009

The solution, if you just re-read the post, would be in the power of your own mind to change the way you do things, such as not buy silly PLASTIC pink ribbons, etc.

[Molly-Oh]

04:27 PM on 11/18/2009

There is a safer, better alternative to mammograms - breast thermographs, which can provide far earlier detection. The breast cancer detection-and-treatment juggernaut has done a brilliant job of marketing itself, but at what cost to all those true believers? Read it and weep.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/125056