It’s great, I’m already at season 7
This vexes me
Did you try medicine drug?
Only stupid people try the medicine drug
Rat bites
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.
House MD hasn’t aged gracefully. It matched early that period’s obsession with edge.
I mean sure, House is edgy, but that’s rarely portrayed to be a good thing. If anything it constantly gets him into trouble.
I remember liking Nurse Jackie more. Should re-watch that one…
I think it’s aged fine. He’s an edgy asshole and everyone hates him because he’s an asshole.
Almost everyone. Most of his team doesn’t actively hate him, except for Foreman and sometimes Chase. But yeah, broadly everyone hates him for being an asshole but he’s also a profoundly capable asshole which means they also want to keep him around despite being an asshole. His entire department essentially exists because of Cuddy’s guilt over giving him the limp.
Three Stories was probably my favorite episode. House is forced to teach a class, he sets up three hypotheticals of patients reporting leg pain at the same time. One of the cases is his own story of how he ended up with the limp. He also managed to diagnose what’s wrong with the normal teacher of the class while teaching it (lead poisoning).
I think this generation made a wrong turn when it started hating guys like House but praising guys like Ron Swanson.
Why do you say that? And which generation?
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.
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 just New Jersey though.
Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.
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.
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!”
…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.
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?
Gell-Man phenomenon: popular media is accurate and trustworthy, except on any subject where you know better.
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.
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.
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
House : Ho(l)mes
House: Pops three Percocet let’s amputate something
deleted by creator
Foreman: Hey I did normal doctor things.
House: Fucking idiot
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.
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.
The censorship crowd has won.
Are you talking about the super model episode?
House says the perfect woman is a man. He’s a chaser.
She wasn’t trans, she was intersex.
There’s another episode where a young boy is also intersex.
House treats both really shitty
she was intersex.
Specifically 46,XY with CAIS, causing a total lack of response to androgens, and since those are what tell a fetus to develop male bits instead of defaulting to female bits…
He treats everyone really shitty. He’s an equal opportunity asshole.
Transpeople see this as unfair towards them.
Sure, but misgendering someone because they have testicles is a whole other level of shitty.
That’s because this topic is in special focus today, for you and many others. But it’s really not different to treating someone shitty for any other reason they can’t do anything about, like being bald or small or whatever.
It’s just always shitty to treat people shitty, it’s not a contest who least deserves to be treated shittily.
Lol, no it’s not.
The mists of time grow e’er near
I get enough medical drama when I look up what’s happening to me on webMD because I don’t get insurance from any of my 3 part time jobs.
House is Sherlock Holmes in doctor form with Dr. Wilson being his Watson
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)
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.
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!
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.
I agree with you on that, as a whole the plot structure gets awful formulaic after a while. I’ve watched it a few times now and it’s become a comfort show for me- watched it the first time for the character arcs, the second time for the philosophical themes, and subsequent times for filthy House zingers
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.
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.
I just have to ask: you hate the series, but have watched the entire series multiple times?
Are you a sailor stuck at sea for months or something?
lol, I gave up on the series after the fourth episode on television. First watch was because I thought I was missing something. Second watch was because my brother was around and that’s what he watched.
The other rewatches was because I needed some background stuff and I had Amazon Prime.
I like some of the characters but the show itself bugs me and I’m an idiot.
If they had Scrubs on Prime Canada I would have just watched that for the umpteenth time instead.
He does solve cases by normal means, they’re just usually quick parts of the episode.
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.
The in-universe explanation was that the hospital created his department for PR reasons so that they could say they are the best at diagnosing stuff and so attract more patients even though most patients would just go to regular departments. The PR worked and so House’s department would often get transferred patients from other hospitals too, when they couldn’t figure out what was happening to them. Regular people would also seek out House specifically when they felt like they weren’t getting the right treatment.
But my interpretation of it was that the whole PR thing was just an excuse Cuddy came up with to help House. She knew what he was capable of but also knew he would never fit in on any regular job so she created something specific for him. She’s the friend every ADHDer or autistic dreams of having.
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.
