Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
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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
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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?
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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
The breaking into the patient's house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
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Yeah, they get the billionaire treatment. I imagine this is what private healthcare is like if you have unlimited money.
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Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field.
https://www.soliant.com/blog/the-least-and-most-accurate-medical-shows/
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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 was written by someone who got through med school, and washed out during residency, I believe.
So, yes funnt af, but accurate! I even asked a surgeon who picks the OR music once, bc I saw it on an episode.
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They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic ~~superheroes~~ reckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.
It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
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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.
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It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.
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)
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House: Pops three Percocet let's amputate something
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.
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Hey that's really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
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.
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 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?
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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.
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Anyone who wants to watch this kind of crazy in Japanese, there’s a show called Doctor X.
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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 think it's aged fine. He's an edgy asshole and everyone hates him because he's an asshole.
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house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.
I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I'm someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most "funny" videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.
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