My wife used to watch this show despite my ridicule of it. The only two true things ever said by House was:
1: It's never Lupus 2: All patients lie
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Personally, what I would like more of doctors doing house visits. Even if it is just about seeing how people live, sleep, what they eat and if they exercise enough.
If you can find and fight the cause of sicknesses, you might not need to fight against the symptoms with meds for the whole life.
Sure there are sicknesses, where you have to take the meds, but sometimes lifestyle changes are effective as well.
Doctors are a scarce commodity. There ain't enough of them to go around. And it would be waste of resources to have them travel around to see anyone in their home. They are far more valuable in their clinical setting. As far a patients making "lifestyle" changes, they seldom do. Even though they know it means their death if they don't. Telling them to do that in their own homes won't make it happen either.
As an old a thankfully retired medic, I have had COPD patients that dialed 911 to get an ambulance because they were struggling to breathe. And they literally made me wait to have that one last cigarette before we loaded and transported because they couldn't smoke in the hospital. They were dead 10 months later. The list of people hell bent on dying I saw and tried to help is long and depressing.
Well, taking meds everyday is a lifestyle change, possible even more so than going to the fitness studio couple of times per week, cleaning your rooms couple of times per month, or getting rid of your disgusting carpet. Just speaking from my own or my friends anecdotal evidence. From my experience doctors where sometimes a bit to quick to hook people up with meds. I don't want to critique science in general, just that I would wish that "we" get better advice, and don't need to do their own (bad) research.
But sure getting people to stop using drugs and narcotics is much more difficult then getting them on them.
Anyway, this was more of a comment on Dr. House, where the doctors had a lot of time on their hands to practice lock picking skills in order to break in peoples homes to figure out what is wrong with them.
You know what? Ill admit it: it's not a good show. The episodes are basically always the same and it's not realistic. But I have fun watching it
I appreciate that every episode has a breaking-and-entering segment.
US: ER/ED (Emergency Room/Department)
UK: A&E (Accident & Emergency)
House: B&E (Breaking & Entering)
They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic ~~superheroes~~ reckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.
It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
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And breaking the rules is pretty much always justified.
Well, for cops shows and in the format.
Spoilers for House. The later seasons actually came out during the time when shoes were moving from episodic to serialised. And as the show had always recognises House as being very reckless, it was easy to write an overarching plot to the later seasons where he actually faces consequences for his behaviour and personal problems.
So unlike in cop shows, House actually does face the issue of his drug abuse and his abusive behaviour. Even going to prison at one point, albeit not for any medical shit he pulled.
The show definitely has a strong anti-authoritarian taste compared to cop shows. House is a philosopher and always improving and questioning morals whereas cops just "follow orders" and break the law to achieve "justice" (which they have a perverted view which they got through shitty propaganda and don't question.)
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Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
That’s what makes the show awesome. I want it even more ludicrous.
A lot of the cases are... loosely... based on real medical discoveries and treatments. You just pack them all under the arm of one guy to make him some kind of Doctor Genius God.
I'm glad they didn't go full on X-Files with it or inject a bunch of quackery. The show was at its strongest when it was incredible without being unbelievable.
It's a medical version of sherlock holmes, why do you think he's called house.
But, does that make lupus Moriarty then?
I'm just kidding, I already knew about the House/Holmes connection because I'm terminally online.
cuz he breaks into people's houses
I thought it was all the doof doof
Don't forget, all of this while popping Vicodin from the moment he wakes up.
Dudes doing this while on a constant hydro wave.
Then drives into a living room.
Its Dr Sherlock, they just switched the coke for pills, Wilson is Watson, etc
It's not even subtle, House literally lives at 221B Baker Street.
House : Ho(l)mes
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And they’ve got an entire diagnostics team working on a single patient multiple days in a row, breaking into their house, running lab tests, and doing basically every single task a hospital has an entire staff for.
Would love to see the hospital bill
The breaking into the patient's house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
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House is Sherlock Holmes in doctor form with Dr. Wilson being his Watson
I mean, that was literally the elevator pitch for the show - Sherlock Holmes as an American doctor. They even made a point in casting of not wanting a British actor which makes it even funnier that Hugh Laurie got the part.
Holmes = House Watson = Wilson 7% solution of cocaine = Vicodin
The biggest difference is that he's essentially his own Moriarty, and his Reichenbach Falls involved a burning house, heroin and hallucinations of dead former team members.
House even lives in apartment 221 and loves drugs. They didn't even try to hide their inspiration.
i dont think they were trying to hide it? his name is house, like a home (holme)
Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field.
https://www.soliant.com/blog/the-least-and-most-accurate-medical-shows/
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It's great, I'm already at season 7
It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.
That’s what makes it even funnier.
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I just watched one where House extracted fluid from a leg growth, then from across the room he 360 no scope squirted it into patient's daughter's mouth.
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It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.
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