Press
“Being simultaneously irreverent and sensitive is, and has always been, how Bloom pushes back against corporatized medicine and personal feelings of burnout.”
— “Through an irreverent and sensitive musical, cancer doctor (and singing comedian) Stuart Bloom pushes back against burnout,”
Pioneer Press, April 28, 2024
“It’s pretty rare to find a doctor who is working in the medium of musical theater.”
— “Conversations: Stuart Bloom, MD,” The Nocturnists, December 14, 2023
“The show reflects an important intersection of art and medicine.”
– “Oncologist Turns Burnout Into a Musical”, MedPage Today, July 27, 2023
“Bloom had experienced burnout, researched burnout and wrote a humorous musical about burnout.”
– “Money planning is one aspect of reassessing life after burnout”, Star Tribune, August 13, 2023
“It was breaking my heart, and I felt like I couldn’t keep on doing it.”
– “Actor-Turned-Oncologist Creates Musical About Physician Burnout”, OBR Oncology, May 31, 2023
“Feeling burned out? Here’s how a Minnesota doctor sang about it.”
— MPR News, May 19, 2023
“A singing oncologist takes on topic of medical burnout in new musical”
— News feature on Kare 11, April 19, 2023
“This is a wonderful, life-affirming show.”
— “Art Hounds: Musical follows journey from comedian to oncologist”, MPR News, April 13, 2023
“Some people keep journals. Dr. Stuart Bloom writes songs.”
— “Facing 'Burnout,' singing oncologist Stuart Bloom put together a musical about it”, Star Tribune, April 13, 2023
“You are showing the world what you do to cope with your burnout problem and at the same time addressing the burnout problem and educating others about it”
— “From the Stage to the Clinic and Back: Medicine and Burnout”, UroToday, January 23, 2022
“It’s a fun show. I’m playing a guy called Stuart Bloom,” Bloom said.
— “Stuart Bloom’s Second Act”, TC Jewfolk, September 5, 2019
“How to Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes has sold out every performance at Open Eye Theater. It’s a two-actor play with music, humor and pathos, focusing on what it means to be a physician today.”
— “From the stage stage to to the clinic and back”, MN Medicine, July August 2020