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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.

[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...

[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?

[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.