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For those of you who have taken pathology and pharmacology, how accurate are the medical cases and diagnoses on House, M.D.?
Medically accurate?
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There were some other threads floating around a few weeks ago that talked about the [in]accuracy of a lot of the medical drama shows.
Personally, I think that the cases are fairly accurate overall but seem to mix up some key details that only us analystic critiquing medical folk would pick up on. I'll be the first to admit that House episodes have scored me some extra points on questions about Wilson's disease and SSPE 😀 .
Personally, I think that the cases are fairly accurate overall but seem to mix up some key details that only us analystic critiquing medical folk would pick up on. I'll be the first to admit that House episodes have scored me some extra points on questions about Wilson's disease and SSPE 😀 .
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I shadowed an attending a bit ago who said that Scrubs was the most accurate of them because it got a lot of the medicine/surgery stereotypes right. 🙂
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House is very hit and miss. Like someone said earlier the wilson's disease episode was pretty good, but sometimes they're just out there.
If you want medically accurate TV go netflix the first few seasons of ER. They are dead on 95% of the time. There are a few things I remember better b/c of an ER epidode....Ramsey-Hunt b/c Carter thought it was just bell's palsey and sent the kid home without checking his ears, dig toxicity because of the guy who came in having taken twice his dose because he can't read, and about every OB catastrophy from the lady who came in with a UTI that masked pre-eclampsia, then she went into full eclampsia, then died from DIC, and then the husband, Eric from Billy Madison, sued Dr. Green for missing it
If you want medically accurate TV go netflix the first few seasons of ER. They are dead on 95% of the time. There are a few things I remember better b/c of an ER epidode....Ramsey-Hunt b/c Carter thought it was just bell's palsey and sent the kid home without checking his ears, dig toxicity because of the guy who came in having taken twice his dose because he can't read, and about every OB catastrophy from the lady who came in with a UTI that masked pre-eclampsia, then she went into full eclampsia, then died from DIC, and then the husband, Eric from Billy Madison, sued Dr. Green for missing it
