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.
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.
It's great, I'm already at season 7
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
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