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
It’s like copaganda for the health industry. Doctorganda?
The breaking into the patient’s house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
House MD hasn’t aged gracefully. It matched early that period’s obsession with edge.
I think it’s aged fine. He’s an edgy asshole and everyone hates him because he’s an asshole.
Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
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.
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 would love a crossover!
Scrubs had an episode riffing on House, close enough.
Not gonna lie, I hate the show House. I’ve watched the entire series multiple times but there’s a lot do like about it, but the reason I have to hate it because the show creators said that they never wanted House to solve a case by the normal means. They wanted him to like run into their ex-gfs dog’s brother that ate something through a story while he was berating her cheating because they stepped on his cane the wrong way. For me, it would be nice to solve a case through competency … it always rubbed me the wrong way.
To be clear, this is subjective. Many people watched the shows and it made them wanna be nurses and doctors and it was their inspiration. So I’m definitely an outlier but it just gets me.
It sounds like it’s just not the show you’re expecting. It’s not trying to be ER or Scrubs. It’s Sherlock Holmes. It’s like watching Mindhunter and criticizing it for not being more like Cops where they solve the case because they catch the suspect in the act of trying to shove the evidence up their butt.
Wasn’t his whole job to solve a case that the other doctors couldn’t solve? When the average doctor’s competency couldn’t solve the case they’d turn it to House to use unconventional methods.
Agreed but the way it’s solved isn’t through a way that seems to make sense. It always feels contrived to me.
I’ve seen doctors react on YouTube and they were like, “why would you run this test, this other test would have shown that”
Let me be clear, I know my opinion isn’t popular and it’s all make-believe. I’m not saying my dislike for the show is rational.
I’ve watched the entire series multiple times
Why?
I have absolutely no idea. I think it was one of the few shows on Amazon Prime. I think I enjoyed some of the interplay between the characters? The medicine stuff just made me hate it.
Anyone who wants to watch this kind of crazy in Japanese, there’s a show called Doctor X.
There’s also Ameku MD which is currently airing
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.
This vexes me
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
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.
Gell-Man phenomenon: popular media is accurate and trustworthy, except on any subject where you know better.
Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
Hey that’s really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
House: Pops three Percocet let’s amputate something
I think it was Vicodin.
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.
It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.
I’ve only seen a couple episodes. Including the one where he discovered a patient has HIV because he couldn’t get rid of the hiccups. Thanks for the new fear!
expect when he was pretty transphobic, that wasn’t cool…
He was generally an asshole to everyone, I think this actually makes him inclusive
I think the point of him is that he’s in pain and also a giant asshole to almost everyone.
That episode would never fly today though.
Are you talking about the super model episode?
She wasn’t trans, she was intersex.
There’s another episode where a young boy is also intersex.
House treats both really shitty
He treats everyone really shitty. He’s an equal opportunity asshole.
Sure, but misgendering someone because they have testicles is a whole other level of shitty.
The mists of time grow e’er near
