ER doc harmonizes music and medicine to help MS and other causes

Dr. Eric Roter, an emergency room doctor who also happens to be a Juilliard-trained cellist, is leveraging his talent to raise funds for 36 disease-related charities through a campaign called Bach to Health. Paying homage to his days of street busking, for each charity he has created a recorded video of himself playing one of J.S. Bach's masterpiece "Cello Suites" on a Manhattan street scene that also includes medical information about the disease. This ABC News story on Dr. Roter explains how he exchanged a career in music for one in medicine and how he came up with the idea to blend the two.

Accelerated Cure Project is one of the charities Dr. Roter has chosen to support from among the highest rated nonprofits on American Institute of Philanthropy and Charity Navigator. Click here to see ACP's video -- we're the first entry in the top row, and our selection is the Prelude from Suite #1 in G major. Lovely!

(Thanks to Melissa O'Shea for sending this information.)