This is pretty interesting

[deleted202457]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026862.900-meet-dr-houses-caring-alter-ego-.html

Everyone always talks about how unreal House is but now there is a guy basically starting a dept of diagnostic medicine lol

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[mmmcdowe]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026862.900-meet-dr-houses-caring-alter-ego-.html

Everyone always talks about how unreal House is but now there is a guy basically starting a dept of diagnostic medicine lol

I don't think people have been denying the fact that there are departments of diagnostic medicine (I had a friend intern at one in Argentina), its all of the other stuff:

Multiple specialists treaiting a single patient at a time
A drug addicted doctor being allowed to hold tenure
The toleration of many violations of privacy and medical policy
The fact that his patients always seem to bleed rectally

So yeah, I love House, but it isn't a true look at diagnosticians like the guy you cited.

 

[mmmcdowe]

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[copingmethods]

I don't think people have been denying the fact that there are departments of diagnostic medicine (I had a friend intern at one in Argentina), its all of the other stuff:

Multiple specialists treaiting a single patient at a time
A drug addicted doctor being allowed to hold tenure
The toleration of many violations of privacy and medical policy
The fact that his patients always seem to bleed rectally

So yeah, I love House, but it isn't a true look at diagnosticians like the guy you cited.

Why is that unrealistic? Don't patients often have a multiple specialists (e.g. a cardiologist, pulmonologist, and nephrologist) caring for them and conferring about the patient?

 

[silverlining1]

Why is that unrealistic? Don't patients often have a multiple specialists (e.g. a cardiologist, pulmonologist, and nephrologist) caring for them and conferring about the patient?

Multiple specialists working as a team to treat a patient is not uncommon, but I am pretty sure that those multiple specialists don't spend days on just one case before moving on to the next one.

 

[mmmcdowe]

Multiple specialists working as a team to treat a patient is not uncommon, but I am pretty sure that those multiple specialists don't spend days on just one case before moving on to the next one.

Exactly. You aren't going to have a neurologist who is going to be sitting around watching the patient all night to make sure that they don't start vomiting, either. And you don't usually have doctors doing X-rays and CTs, with absolutely no techs.

 

[binko]

The issue with House is not that he's a diagnostician, it's that his diagnostic method usually involves flipping a coin between two dramatic and dangerous treatments for two rare and exotic ailments, neither of which the patient is likely to actually have, and then waiting to see if the patient explodes.

 

[DrWookie]

Exactly. You aren't going to have a neurologist who is going to be sitting around watching the patient all night to make sure that they don't start vomiting, either. And you don't usually have doctors doing X-rays and CTs, with absolutely no techs.

That is always the funniest part for about House.

The doctors seem to do EVERYTHING. I really don't understand what their specialty is...They will do surgery, lab tests, CT scans, they set up an IV. THey are like nurses/techs/physicians/surgeons all in one body. Superdoctor!

 

[vickpick]

guyz, house is fun to watch and is never meant to be realistic...lol..

im pretty sure taking so many pain relievers would eff up anybody's liver or what not..

almost nothing abt the cases is realistic - nonetheless they are interesting..

 

[DrWookie]

guyz, house is fun to watch and is never meant to be realistic...lol..

im pretty sure taking so many pain relievers would eff up anybody's liver or what not..

almost nothing abt the cases is realistic - nonetheless they are interesting..

Oh ya I definitely love to watch it

I was watching last night actually...

 

[santai]

I think that the weirdest thing was the fact that the doctors seem to be able to do everything. Other than Wilson, every doctor on House seems to be an expert radiologist and laboratory physician and every other non-surgical specialty. Chase seems to be able to do every surgery ever required too.

 

[chinook]

i think the funny thing is that all the people with the most serious and rare cases in the world end up in new jersey

still love the show

 

[Tabeeb12]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026862.900-meet-dr-houses-caring-alter-ego-.html

Everyone always talks about how unreal House is but now there is a guy basically starting a dept of diagnostic medicine lol

I actually personally know this doctor (Dr. William Gahl). I have shadowed him multiple times at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. He is a prominent figure at the NIH. The NIH started the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, and Dr. Gahl is leading it. Basically patients who don't have a diagnosis to their condition are referred to this program.

Aside from that program, Dr. Gahl has a team of physicians and clinical genetics fellows who specialize in inborn errors of metabolism, particularly alkaptonuria, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, sialic acid diseases, and cystinosis. It was fascinating to see patients with those rare diseases. He was such a nice doctor to shadow. He treated me with respect and would teach me at the bedside of the patient (with the permission of the pt), going over the the biochemical, physiological, and clinical features of the diseases the patients had.