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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.
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)
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
They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic
superheroesreckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.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.)
It’s literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
I only realized this a couple years ago. I was a huge fan of the show 🤦♂️
And he lives at 221B Baker St, which blew my mind when I realised!
Holmes & Watson, House & Wilson.
The name “House” is a play on “Holmes” (with English pronunciation, a homophone for “homes”)
There’s a ton:
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Gregory_House_and_Sherlock_Holmes_connections
Big Lupus at it again
It was only lupus the one time.
Now thats what I call effective advertising!
I guess you missed the parts where House had to contend with his own mental health issues and the moments of warmth and care the guy displayed.
Something I really didn’t catch during my first watch through, House cares, House cares a LOT. He acts like an asshole but from his point of view he’s taking the most pragmatic and efficient route possible to save his patients, willing to risk firing, jailtime and even death to do so; the few times he loses a patient (or friend) he’s devastated.
My interpretation was that he cares about solving the riddle in time, kinda like competing with the diseases to show he’s better. I don’t remember anything about him caring about the people specifically, except for a few specific patients that he liked.
How’d you miss that?
First time I watched I was like 11.
Oh well that’d be it then, yeah.
Apologies for having what was perhaps an agecentric take.
I missed all but maybe like 5 or max 10 episodes of the entire show.
But cops in cop shows have struggles too.
(If I’m understanding you correctly they’ve shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)
(If I’m understanding you correctly they’ve shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)
Specifically he starts season 6 in a psychiatric hospital and season 8 in prison. As always he tries to cheat his way out of the system, but ends up being humbled in season 6 and committing to treatment. He fakes his death at the end of season 8, because he’s going to go back to prison (damage caused by a prank gone wrong), Wilson has cancer and House would be in prison well past Wilson’s estimated remaining time.
My wife and I have been watching NYPD Blue recently. Fucking incredible show.
YEAHHHHH!
It’s great, I’m already at season 7
Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
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
It’s moments like this that remind me that I have no ability to put things together.
Yeah… and Avatar is Pokemon.
The reddit has taken over.
If you’re implying we’re making connections that don’t exist the show creator David Shore has stated in interviews that Sherlock is a big part of the inspiration for the character
2008 interview, skip to 1:16 for the relevant part
Hey, they could have renewed Cuddy’s contract!
f* Fox.
Absolutely agree, Fox can eat rotten goat ass, I just love the absolutely insane escalation as the show went on.
The extremely rare and interesting diseases weren’t enough, no, they needed to hit levels that make daytime soaps question what’s going on while still somehow sticking to “He’s Sherlock, but a doctor. In prison!”
I was young when I watched the show and thought it was at least somewhat based on real medical science.
Though I got skeptical when I saw an episode where they trained a computer on brainwaves present when they looked at different pictures and used that to visually reconstruct the patient’s lost memories or some shit?
There was one where they sorta see a dream the patient is having from brainwaves, which is sci-fi, but at least based on actual research. I don’t remember why they assumed that would help diagnose the patient, but it probably didn’t make much sense.
There’s also one where House recreates his list memories by taking many drugs
Just think, it won’t be long until now until the tech bros implant chips in us, and then governments can use them to determine our loyalty to our Great Nations and Fearless Leaders! It will be a glorious time for unity among our people, I’m sure.
…no, they needed to hit levels that make daytime soaps question what’s going on while still somehow sticking to “He’s Sherlock, but a doctor. In prison!”
-He even liked to watch soaps on the show.
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.
“Small chance the patient is lying? Break into his house, shoot his dog and steal his wife. Also, foreman is black.”
Also, foreman is black.
He actually mentions at one point that part of why he picked Foreman was because of his juvenile criminal history.
I love how about three seasons in, everyone forgets that they’re doing something technically illegal.
It’s like copaganda for the health industry. Doctorganda?
We can shorten that to Docaganda and make it a bit snappier
Yeah, they get the billionaire treatment. I imagine this is what private healthcare is like if you have unlimited money.
Wait a second…which department breaks into your house?
Extra-external Medicine.
Real reason why medical treatment in the US costs more than twice per-person than every other country.
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/
Geoblock
I’m to tired to click. Can I get a To Long Didn’t Click?
Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field
Tldr?
Lot people say Scrubs like real
Ranked as follows: 5) Grey’s Anatomy, 4) House M.D., 3) ER, 2) St. Elsewhere, 1) Scrubs
AI-summary of page: This article ranks popular medical shows based on their accuracy in portraying hospital situations. It highlights inaccuracies in shows like Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D., and ER, while praising Scrubs for its realism. The article also debunks common medical myths perpetuated by TV shows, such as doctors operating outside their specialty and patients being revived just in time for commercial breaks.
Scrubs is, ironically, a lot less silly. It’s definitely the better show, but House is sometimes laugh out loud hilarious when it tries to portray it’s most unhinged episodes totally straight-faced.
Hi! My name is Bob Kelso, and I like whores. Now, why don’t I introduce myself like that? Because there is a time and a place for the truth.
Scrubs was written by someone who got through med school, and washed out during residency, I believe.
So, yes funnt af, but accurate! I even asked a surgeon who picks the OR music once, bc I saw it on an episode.
Ba ba ba dada ba ba bum, ba ba dada ba ba baaa…
You, and my axe! Eagles, chaaaaaaarge!
I would love a crossover!
Scrubs had an episode riffing on House, close enough.
Dr. Cox with a cane solves various problems
It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.
I know right, it could have at last been something like…shuffles deck…sexually transmitted African sleeping sickness.
That’s what makes it even funnier.
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.
I believe it was breast milk?
Yeah, I remember that episode. He located a suspected breast tumor on the guy’s leg by giving him a drug that caused galactorrhea and then looked for the swelling as the tumor swelled up with milk.
It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.
House: Pops three Percocet let’s amputate something
Cameron: Wouldn’t you like to see the case first?
House: Why? You’ll just think it’s allergies. Also, I’ll never fuck you.
Foreman: Hey I did normal doctor things.
House: Fucking idiot
I think it was Vicodin.
Hey that’s really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
