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In that episode where they were all on the plane, house said something to the tune of "I am board certified in infectious disease...she [cuddy] writes parking passes"
 
wikipedia has all the info on all the TV show starts and what they do

just search for gregory house 🙂
 
And, while we're at it, what exactly is the role of all of the other "pee-on" docs who work under him? Are they residents, co-workers, is this a fellowship??
 
alwaysaangel said:
From one of the episodes:

"I am a board certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology."
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wtf is this? and can you even do a double specialty in two unrelated fields? lol, this show is so unreal.
 
xylem29 said:
wtf is this? and can you even do a double specialty in two unrelated fields? lol, this show is so unreal.
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Good grief. You can do a double specialty in whatever you want. See first you do one residency, then you do another. Or you do a residency in one thing and a fellowship in another.

Why do premeds think they know everything.

If you need proof here are some real doctors that would seem to prove you wrong:

http://www.healthgrades.com/directo...md-reports/Dr-Richard-Johnson-MD-544A0C59.cfm
http://www.healthgrades.com/directo.../dr-md-reports/Dr-Jorge-Diego-MD-1A3C5B88.cfm

Google is your friend.
 
xylem29 said:
wtf is this? and can you even do a double specialty in two unrelated fields? lol, this show is so unreal.
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yeah, why can't more shows be believable like "Heroes" and "Numbers"..... and "The View"....
 
foreverLaur said:
like i said before, search for their names on the show on wikepedia and you can learn their ages, specialties, and anything else you want to know about them. the same holds true for most other shows - grey's anatomy and such.
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Always take wikepedia with a grain of salt. The dangers of a popularly updated resource is that any idiot can adjust facts. Things like actresses ages, things that publicists are likely to adjust are the most suspect. Note that the comedian Sinbad got a lot of condolence cards this year because of someone reporting him dead on there. (He isn't).
 
i've found, that at least for TV show characters, it is pretty accurate. They employ a lot of moderators to keep checking up on that stuff. Obviously they can't do it too terribly well and you shouldn't base you school report off of it, but for stuff like learning about TV show characters, I've found it to be both useful and accurate thus far.
 
alwaysaangel said:
Good grief. You can do a double specialty in whatever you want. See first you do one residency, then you do another. Or you do a residency in one thing and a fellowship in another.

Why do premeds think they know everything.

If you need proof here are some real doctors that would seem to prove you wrong:

http://www.healthgrades.com/directo...md-reports/Dr-Richard-Johnson-MD-544A0C59.cfm
http://www.healthgrades.com/directo.../dr-md-reports/Dr-Jorge-Diego-MD-1A3C5B88.cfm

Google is your friend.
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Um...no you can't. You can't do a residency in Radiology and then a fellowship in surgical oncology (a fellowship within general surgery). Your fellowship will be somehow related to your residency/field...lol...if you were a med student you would know this, but looks like we're both MS-0's.

I would think that it is difficult to do a double specialty, since most people enter into a field through the match and it is uncommon for physicians to sucessfully complete one residency and then apply and match into another program afterwards. In fact, you cannot enter the match after you've already matched previously and completed your residency. I know it is possible to do so (enter another residency outside of the match process after completing a residency), but most people don't and it is also very difficult - and when they do, it's not with the intention of practicing as an ENT and Internist for example, it's b/c they're making a switch. If you can find this time, a physician out there who is licensed to practice in two unrelated specialties, please post it.

Anyway, I also just did some googling, and it turns out that I. Diseases is a subspecialty of IM, so is Neprhology. That is different, these aren't two different residencies, but two different fellowships within IM - now I can see how one could be board certified in both. I didn't know that before. Anyway, I think that ID and Neph are somehow complimentary to each other, now that I see physicians being b.certified in both - there's obviously a reason for this.
 
xylem29 said:
Anyway, I also just did some googling, and it turns out that I. Diseases is a subspecialty of IM, so is Neprhology. That is different, these aren't two different residencies, but two different fellowships within IM - now I can see how one could be board certified in both. I didn't know that before.
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Yeah sorry I meant within IM sorry I thought you knew they were both within IM. Here if you look at this website: http://www.ama-assn.org/vapp/freida/srch/1,1239,,00.html It tells you all the subspecialties and what your residency had to have been to do it. Pretty cool website although in the ERAS forum they're pretty adamant that its full of errors in stats.

But I really think that doing multiple residencies isn't that uncommon, I'm sure its less common than just doing more than one fellowship - but I know it happens. One girl I know did Peds then went back and did a full residency in EM (she didn't want to do combined she wanted to be fully capable in both fields but specialize in peds-EM. I know an old doctor now who is an internist and is about to go back and do a residency in rad. I know another person who did peds and realized she hated it and is now started derm. I think its more common then you're making it out to be, but the fact of the matter is a simple google search shows that a lot of people have multiple specialties (fairly unrelated) under their name so whether its residency-residency or residency-fellowship-fellowship its definitely being done.

But anyway - you're right I don't know for sure exactly what the common way to do it is so lets just agree that unrelated specialties are fairly common however they are gotten.
 
foreverLaur said:
i've found, that at least for TV show characters, it is pretty accurate. They employ a lot of moderators to keep checking up on that stuff. Obviously they can't do it too terribly well and you shouldn't base you school report off of it, but for stuff like learning about TV show characters, I've found it to be both useful and accurate thus far.
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I don't know about that. I know someone who is a minor TV celebrity and he's always having to change back his bio facts after members of the public "fix" them. I wouldn't take any info on there as gospel, including TV related stuff.
 
well we're doing Gregory House, not Hugh Laurie. It's a character on a TV show, not the actor playing the character. The ages and specialties and the med schools they went to I've found to always be accurate with what is depicted on the TV show. People like to screw with real people - not very many people know the details. Everyone who watches House pretty much knows his specialties. I only watch it part time and I know that.
 
i love how wikipedia even has house's social security number and exact time of birth
 
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