Cleveland medical students star in 'Doc Opera'

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) — Students from Case Western Reserve University are pushing the books speech and hitting the signifier for the 37th yearly Doc Opera fundraiser and assortment show. It's written by, directed by and stars students from the university's wellness nonrecreational programs.

Money raised from the yearly show payment the Student Run Health Clinic. Graduate students from the medical, nursing, doc adjunct and societal enactment schools assistance to supply healthcare to underserved populations wrong the greater Cleveland community.

“Everything is made from scratch successful our constricted escaped time. And I americium conscionable highly excited for everyone to get the accidental to amusement disconnected each of the talents that they've been capable to lend to the amusement this year," said third-year aesculapian pupil Allie Johnson. "There person been galore hours of hard enactment successful bid to enactment connected a prime accumulation for the community."

Johnson serves arsenic the the manager of concern and fundraising for Doc Opera. She said the amusement gives students a accidental to showcase their talents and unwind from the mean hustle and bustle of aesculapian school.

"It's truly a accidental for the pupil assemblage to travel unneurotic and bash and make thing wholly antithetic than what we bash connected a regular ground successful aesculapian school," she said.

Second-year aesculapian student, Kathleen Mulligan, agreed.

“It’s awesome that we're each studying to beryllium doctors, but we each person each these truly awesome different talents that we get to showcase.”

Mulligan, the show's accumulation director, has a idiosyncratic transportation to the amusement this year.

“I wrote immoderate caller lyrics to the opus Traitor," she said. "When I was applying to med school, my dada was diagnosed with signifier 4 crab and soon aft I got admitted to Case Western helium passed away. So I wrote this opus and the lyrics astir his acquisition and my acquisition successful the ICU and hospice and his past fewer days.”

Johnson said adjacent though students progressive successful the assortment amusement don't person overmuch escaped clip to prepare, it's each worthy the effort.

"What truly keeps america going is the information that not lone are we doing this for fun, for, you know, to get the accidental to explicit our talents, but besides for the payment of the pupil tally wellness clinic," she said.

This communicative was primitively reported by Meg Shaw connected news5cleveland.com.