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Those of you who watch house md, whenever you hear a new word/disease do you ever look it up on the new to learn about it while watching the show? I do? haha. Is that nerdish or weird?
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I do it all the time, heh. Amyloidosis anyone? I swear, it's mentioned in every episode.
 
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Hahahaha do it all the time. I know exactly where you are coming from.
 
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i watch House for the hot lesbians, not for the medicine.
 
Hahah yeah man, you almost always have to. So question to everyone, do you think Foreman did the right thing by switching 13's drugs from placebo to the real one?
 
LastPolarBear said:
Hahah yeah man, you almost always have to. So question to everyone, do you think Foreman did the right thing by switching 13's drugs from placebo to the real one?
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DAMN YOU. I knew i shouldnt have come on this thread. I'm a few episodes behind. I remember watching the one when he found out she was on placebo, but thats the last one ive seen. Oh well, my own faut.

OP, you should edit your thread so the title says SPOILER ALERT in parenthases or something.
 
LastPolarBear said:
Hahah yeah man, you almost always have to. So question to everyone, do you think Foreman did the right thing by switching 13's drugs from placebo to the real one?
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Or maybe he switched her from the real one to placebo!
 
LastPolarBear said:
Hahah yeah man, you almost always have to. So question to everyone, do you think Foreman did the right thing by switching 13's drugs from placebo to the real one?
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Depends which way you look at it. But I would say he did the right thing because that is the nice thing to do for her.
 
RySerr21 said:
DAMN YOU. I knew i shouldnt have come on this thread. I'm a few episodes behind. I remember watching the one when he found out she was on placebo, but thats the last one ive seen. Oh well, my own faut.

OP, you should edit your thread so the title says SPOILER ALERT in parenthases or something.
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Haha, my bad.

starfishprime said:
Or maybe he switched her from the real one to placebo!
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This is true, maybe the stinky stuff is the placebo!!! Oh the drama!
 
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ejay286 said:
[youtube]LcQsD0HU0SY[/youtube]
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haha that made me laugh :laugh: that is a basic summary of what happens in every episode. But this is irrelevant to the thread topic...oh well
 
NotAndrew said:
What?

She was on the placebo and then he switched her to the real one.
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She was on an odorless, blinded dilute solution of saline, and he switched her to a malodorous, blinded dilute solution of saline.
Now, who ever heard of a malodorous dilute solution of saline? Not I. Ergo: the nurses are insane and the smell is fictitious.
 
luvrunning said:
haha that made me laugh :laugh: that is a basic summary of what happens in every episode. But this is irrelevant to the thread topic...oh well
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Yeah its very irrelevant, but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread so I thought I'd share it.....
 
starfishprime said:
She was on an odorless, blinded dilute solution of saline, and he switched her to a malodorous, blinded dilute solution of saline.
Now, who ever heard of a malodorous dilute solution of saline? Not I. Ergo: the nurses are insane and the smell is fictitious.
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I must have missed something this past episode. Foreman was talking to chase and he said that he found out that 13 was on the placebo and then at the end of the episode he switched her to the real thing.

Also the episode when it was lupus ruled.
 
Ibn Rushd said:
I do it all the time, heh. Amyloidosis anyone?
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Yes, but the more you look up, the more you realize how preposterous the show really is. I only saw it for the first time just recently, when a friend gave me season 1 on DVD as a joke gift. I thought the show was very entertaining, but only because it's like a kind of medical fantasy world cum soap opera.

The whole premise of House is utterly unrealistic: what hospital has a team of FOUR ATTENDINGS (or is it an attending and four fellows?) just sitting around diagnosing exotic diseases that come in the door? (I'd like to get a job like that when I'm a doctor.) And the set cracks me up: it looks more like a Madison Avenue ad agency than a hospital. In the place where I volunteered, they would cram about six people into a space the size of House's office.

As for the diseases, the names and symptoms are all real, but they often make up nonexistent treatments that sound better on TV than the real ones. For example, there's an episode where a patient is accidentally poisoned by colchicine, a drug usually used to treat gout. So far so good--but House tells his team to treat the patient with monoclonal antibodies! This is ridiculous, because it would be useless unless the problem is an infectious agent or autoimmune disease, and colchicine is just a chemical. I looked it up, and found that in reality there is no good treatment for colchicine overdose except supportive care--which is why it is often fatal. (Fortunately, it's also pretty rare, which is why it ended up on the show.)

For really good medical TV, I prefer reality shows. Last month I happened to see one on the Discovery Health Channel about a woman who had a 200-pound tumor removed (a very exotic kind called a neurofibroma) at U Chicago Medical Center. It was an 18-hour operation with a team of 12 surgeons. Now that was ******* amazing.

Addendum: I have to admit it: I love Scrubs. Now that's a show that actually "gets" medicine.
 
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Part where the coffee pops up got me.
 
WannaBePreMed said:
They mention Wilson's Disease too much... 🙄
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What's ironic is that Wilson's Disease was the final diagnosis in an early episode, and the entire team looked utterly perplexed when House made his final explanation. Now it seems like they throw it out there all the time.


student1799 said:
Yes, but the more you look up, the more you realize how preposterous the show really is.
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This site is pretty much required reading after any episode of the show:

http://politedissent.com/house_pd.html


student1799 said:
Addendum: I have to admit it: I love Scrubs. Now that's a show that actually "gets" medicine.
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Strangely enough, some of the docs that I've talked to have said the same thing. The show's initial premise was to tell the stories that one of the friends of the creator had from his years as an intern and resident. In the early seasons, it definitely seemed like they were taking a lot of stuff from The House of God, and I've heard that the producers asked around SDN for stories.
 
I look up stuff from House all the time. Just so I don't miss anything, I keep my trustee laptop by my side
 
I'm not sure about more recent episodes but in the first season I recognized some of the stories written by Berton Roueche and published in the New Yorker in the 1940s-50s and still in print in book form:
http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Detectives-Plume-Berton-Roueche/dp/0452265886

CDC epidemiologists do go into people's homes to investigate the environmental exposures that may have led to the illness. It is creepy when fictional physicians do it but all in a day's work for the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). http://www.cdc.gov/eis/
 
Ibn Rushd said:
I do it all the time, heh. Amyloidosis anyone? I swear, it's mentioned in every episode.
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that or lupus
or perineoplastic syndrome is said every 5 seconds by Cameron in the first 3 seasons...even when it's not cancer
 
I sit around telling my husband all the things that are going on on the show that can't possibly happen in real life medicine.

That said, I do love the show. Can't turn down good drama 🙂 (Just can't take it seriously)
 
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