When you’re a patient in hospital, you don’t usually think of your doctor or nurse as having a creative side bursting to come out.
But, once every two years, staff from Werribee Mercy and the Mercy Hospital for Women show their lighter sides, as they did again last Friday when Mercy Health hosted its staff revue, Have You Got the Mercy Factor.
Surgeons, nurses and administration staff performed 11 acts, including an X-Factor-style talent show, Bollywood dancers, singers, a band, and even a poet.
Mercy Health’s chief executive of health services, Linda Mellors, said
Have You Got the Mercy Factor won rave reviews from the audience of family and friends, as well as judges.
“It was the first time the talent show was held at both Werribee Mercy Hospital and Mercy Hospital for Women,” Dr Mellors said.
“[There was] a camera linking the two sites to ensure staff could see and hear each performance in real time.
“A performance of two popular Madonna and Taylor Swift songs by emergency nurses at Werribee Mercy Hospital had everyone on their feet,” she said, adding this performance received three perfect scores from judges and was crowned the Werribee winner.
A tongue-in-cheek performance about the gynaecology department by two staff specialists at the Heidelberg campus, was declared Mercy Hospital for Women’s overall winner.
