Been watching Elementary over dinner and it absolutely has the same issue 😂
It’s canon in the series that there’s an entire budget in that hospital just for settling the lawsuits that arise due to House.
For those who didn’t get it House is just sherlock Holmes in a medicinal setting.
His friend is Wilson instead of Watson.
He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction, hell he even uses drugs just like Holmes.
Which is funny because Arthur Conan Doyle based Holmes on a real life doctor who used deductions. It comes full circle!
He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction
If you’ve dealt with real doctors, you know that is high fantasy.
House/Homes/Holmes
Abode
Cuddy has A body
What she keeps in her closet is none of House’s business
Holmes on homes.
And Doyle got the inspiration for Holmes from watching doctors diagnose patients
I apologize, but during that time we just were so disillusioned by heros, we couldn’t bear them in our fiction. So we invented the “deeply flawed good guy hero”.
Invented? Lol,
Dude is a super genius finding clues where others can’t whose name starts with an H with a close friend and companion whose name starts W.
Should they have just kept Holmes and Watson instead of House and Wilson to make it clear that it is Sherlock Holmes M.D.?
Oh wow also “homes” (Holmes) vs “house” really makes it less subtle than I thought…
I don’t remember it but apparently even House’s address is Baker Street 221b
yes, but the “FLAWED” dial is turned up to 11 in House md compared to the original.
I like how every patient gets a big room with huge windows and a team of doctors on call 24/7 and 12 medical tests done a day with no waiting. And no one ever talked about the bills.
Did you watch the show? That’s all explained and is not typical. House has a very specialized practice dealing in absurd rare cases that no one can figure out. There was even an entire season arc about money and profits.
How does employing House make the hospital money?
It’s a teaching hospital, so they don’t (entirely) rely on the regular patient-funded system common in the USA.
House’s reputation can totally help with funding.
Because people want to watch something that makes them feel good… Real life doesnt have beautiful doctors with perfect bodies, hair and makeup either. And the light is not turned down and romantic. Lols.
And I kind of like the story. Imagine if you actually had a genius doctor that would always be right. The hospital wouldnt fire him, or maybe they would, if they dont care if patients get better. In real life, maybe more money in keeping them sick.
been awhile since i watched it, but didnt they state it was some hospital in a really rich neighborhood?
Well, his is typically a one-case department. They talk about cutting his department or funding regularly because it is expensive. In the end, they always conclude he does more good than harm and let him keep abusing people to save a life here or there. I’m not saying anything of this is logical, ethical, or consistent with any reality I want to live in, I’m just saying they address a lot of this across the seasons.
Patients also only get sent to House when nobody else can figure it out.
it’s a fake drama without any basis in reality.
100%, and I gotta say it was a great show. A little lacking in the last season or two but I loved the ending of the series overall.
I think the in universe explanation was that it was a teaching hospital. But I’m pretty sure even those charge patients something in the US.
Mood I was in the ER this weekend for a broken collarbone and saw one doctor and two nurses and Tylenol for the pain. I had to make my own follow up appt with an orthopedic doctor in network and I couldn’t request my medical records to be forwarded to new office. Fuck healthcare cause 5 days after the break I finally got an opinion from a qualified doctor: NO SURGERY. Fml
“Fuck American healthcare” FTFY
i bet medical care is like that if you’re rich
the thing is they tamper with the queues to put themselves on top, and nobody says anything
I thought they did get mad about the queues a couple of times.
Definitely not only the second case ever
I love Lemmy
please do not the rat
I can assure you the rat wishes to be did
Can confirm
Absolute cinema.
There is always a TF2 SFM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqF1AiqyCQ
Thank you, I’ve never seen this version
I was looking for this. Sums up every episode
Mouse bites cure all
Inaccurate. There was way more sexual harassment.
Also butt hole worms are one of the most common and enduring medical conditions in human history.
enduring
I read this as endearing.
You’re right, I only love you for your butthole worms.
My wife, who as far as I know has none, is going to be devastated.
My butthole worms will never leave me, unlike everyone else!
Awwwwwww
And random suffering inflicted upon the patient
Nah, not random. If they lied to Dr. House or withheld information, they deserve it (in his opinion).
lying to yourself and others is the source of much hardship, both for the patient and everyone else
I feel like you are wrong.
House was never about the medicine.
It is about the anti-hero.
Similar to the cocaine sniffing, freelance police character House is based on
Didn’t he do heroin?
It was redressing Sherlock Holmes in a medical context.
Yeah the cases were fun and formulaic, but my favorite parts were seeing the moments House was confronted with his mental health. The guy cared a lot and had no idea how to deal with it.
Just finished rewatching it. That’s basically it, but it’s awesome nonetheless
Hugh Laurie is an amazing actor. I watch the show as more of a character story than a medical show. Watching House’s descent is just so intriguing to me
At the base of it, the characters are the driving aspect of the show and the episodic cases are just sort of there to drive interactions between the characters. I guess that might be how a lot of shows work though.
Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Amazing cure found in the last 5 minutes.
I’d really liked to have seen him be right on the first try more often to justify the ego.
wasnt he normally only wrong cause the patient was lying to him? a kind of allegory for telling the truth or something idk
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Ironically, playing a doctor made the actor sick
It was a show that definitely followed a rigid format
Excellent satire indeed. Also highlights how having experience with personal medical issues can help broaden perspective on how to help others.
