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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
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.