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[rivka]

In the middle of a House episode, I tripped harder than usual on a medical idiocy.

"Why would you [commit a medical idiocy]?" I yelled at the screen.

"Rivka," Michael said patiently, "...you're asking a medical question of Bertie Wooster."

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[dafna]

OK, that's awesome. I want to use that line at work.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

::applauds wildly::

Oh, the Houseverse, in which there is no such thing as patient confidentiality, and in which board-certified specialists do their own blood draws and lab work.

[redbird]

I've had a board-certified specialist do the blood draw. Once. Because his schedule had slipped, it was now 7 p.m., and the nurses had left long since.

He was good at it.

And the blood went to the lab, to be handled in the normal way by the people at the lab who specialize in that.

[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

Via Polite Dissent, an explanation of how your doc knew how to do that. (http://politedissent.com/archives/148/)

[pixel.livejournal.com]

I saw one episode of that show, and spent the entire time ranting at the screen about what a rampaging jerk the main character was and how he wasn't making any brilliant medical deductions, he was just grasping at theory after theory until one of them happened to end up being right.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I do that too, except with movies with archaeology in them. My husb& thinks it's hilarious when I shout, in a crowded movie theatre, "Ha! That's not twelfth dynasty!!!" :)

And Hugh Laurie, no matter what he's in, always makes me think of that Prince George line in Blackadder 3, when Blackadder tells him that he will be back before the Prince can say "antidisestablishmentarianism"...

*three days later*
Prince George: Anti-distinctly minty...

[tracicle.livejournal.com]

It's very difficult to take House seriously, isn't it?

I just wait for the scenes where the doctors are forced to perform (yet another) emergency tracheotomy. Now, I know nothing about medical procedure, but surely they've done more tracheotomies than the average hospital.

[signy1.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait-- there are people who watch 'House' for the medicine? Er, why would they do that? I just watch it for the one-liners and the recurring ravishment fantasies...

[cheshyre]

Damn, LJ ate my post, but I was going to recommend Polite Dissent's medical reviews of each episode. Apparently some doctors do get patients who watch too much House and expect similar treatment (not the rudeness, but "are you sure it isn't <rare condition>?") so he tries to debunk the medical mistakes in House and other fiction.

[cheshyre]

Catching up on Polite Dissent, I just found House Bingo which may make the show more rewarding.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

Love the icon! :)

[tracicle.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I keep it for just such occasions. :)

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Oh yah, I do that too - and about paleontology; I'm insufferable during dinosaur movies. :P But I don't know enough about medicine or medical procedure to make House unwatchable, and that's perfectly cool with me, since I happen to think Dr. House is t3h hawt. ;)

[wanderingaengus.livejournal.com]

Let me recommend Polite Dissent (http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html), the blog of a doctor who does regular reviews of House.

He gives each episode three grades: one for the medical content, one for the mystery plot, and one for the ongoing soap opera.

He does a nice job of picking the show apart without taking either it, or himself, too seriously.

...

I'm eagerly awaiting the day they get Stephen Fry to come in as a guest star for House. Can't you just picture it?

[cheshyre]

I'm eagerly awaiting the day they get Stephen Fry to come in as a guest star for House.
Ditto

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

I was just saying that (re: Stephen Fry) to my husband the other day.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Oh cool. I hoped there was a site out there doing for House what the nice professor at Northeastern (http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/math/cp/blog/?showall=yes) is doing for Numb3rs. Although I've also been trying to wean myself off House; it's reached the point where every character on it I want to take by the shoulders and throttle, vigorously.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

"Why would you [commit a medical idiocy]?" I yelled at the screen.

Oh dear. Try watching either medical stuff using imaging equipment or military stuff with grillghod.

That scope doesn't go with that scanner. That's not how an MRI display looks. You can't do that with that radar and besides his uniform is wrong and his hair is out of regulation and if someone of this rank talked like that to a general he'd be shot out of a gun like puffed rice.

They'll be showing something about a guy being brought into an ER with a railroad spike completely through his head and Himself is complaining they won't pan back and let him see which portable xray the tech rolled into the examination room!

It astonishes me, too

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Nurses do so little at that hospital, they NEVER have to send out a test, and for the gods sakes, the doctors or residents or whatever those kids on House's team are do MAMMOGRAPHIES! I keep watching it on DVD, though. I'm amused by it.

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Heeheeheehee.

That is all -- I bow to your superior nitpickage skillz.