House: 4.08 You Don't Want To Know--a few observations

[kidsnurse]

Interesting episode, which I'll sum up for myself by pointing out that if the PPTH staff would simply stop drinking coffee they'd all be a lot healthier....

Six years ago, my mother went to breakfast with a friend, who requested decaf coffee.  Forty-five minutes later, she was on her way, via ambulance, to the hospital--where she spent two days in

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[wihluta]

And sometimes I wish I had no medical backround at all, and could buy all these informational errors they are so freely disseminating.
nope, doesn't work. These errors are so blatantly obvious anyone with a standard general knowledge can pick up on them. At least I do most of the time.

[pwcorgigirl]

I really thought, leading up this ep, that they wouldn't go for Huntington's chorea because it's so well-known and is automatically tragic. Something less high profile like essential tremor could also end her career but wouldn't kill her. But no.

The throw-away diagnosis of lupus irked me to no end. It's not so easily treated as "let's give him steroids and boot him out the door." Not unless your medical consultants have lupus confused with a case of poison ivy. Jeeze . . .

*edited because I spell better when I've had at least 20 ounces of coffee*

[blackmare]

Is it that well known?

I'd never heard of Huntington's, myself, until last night.

Anyway, after last night I really dislike 13. I can't judge her for the not-wanting-to-know thing, but I can and do hold it against her that she drugged House and then stabbed him.

The drugging in order to test him and make sure he wasn't going to die, I can sort-of forgive. The no-local-anesthesia liver biopsy, I cannot.

Interestingly, House apparently can forgive it. Another example of pretty girls making him stupid? Or is he just so screwed up that he figures he deserves the abuse?

[kidsnurse]

Huntington's is rare, but--once you know someone with it, even if your acquaintance is through, say, a fictional character in a book, what you learn is so memorable, so distressing, so horrifying, that it sticks with you. forever.

and i didn't even touch on the fact that following the liver biopsy, the inadvertent patient was not made to lie quietly on his right side for two hours. there are damned good reasons for this precaution. but i'm guessing the immortal house is immune to all those scary little complications.....

here i go again. shutting up now.

[nightdog_barks]

Woody Guthrie, father of Arlo, had it. I remember seeing a documentary about him, years ago, and they showed some of the ravages of Huntington's.

As kidsnurse says, it was horrifying.

Or is he just so screwed up that he figures he deserves the abuse?

I'm thinking it was just more sloppy writing. Last night's House was a pod-person.

[pffff5]

Hello Kidsnurse,

I'm not really bothered by medical approximations or even errors because I'm ready to buy anything the writers will throw at me : I know nothing at all about medical stuffs and besides, my english isn't that good that it would allow me to understand doctors talks ;-)

As for the rest : I want 13 to be fired. Seriously ! She drugged him and "biopsied" his liver without lidocaine ? What ?! As a revenge ? Besides, she bears an uncanny ressemblance to Cameron and as you know, I'm not a great fan of that kind of character.

I'm happy Big Love is gone, was not really funny, was he.

I didn't miss Cameron neither Chase although I like the latter in this season.

More Wilson, more Wilson, more Wilson, I AGREE !

Anyway, I liked this epi very much.

I wonder if we'll see, in this season, a new Nemesis for House. Or, will he be his own Nemesis ? Or will it be a "cheer-up" season, without any kind of personal drama for our fav doc...

Take care,
Pffff5

[purridot]

And sometimes I wish I had no medical background at all, and could buy all these informational errors they are so freely disseminating.

You poor thing! I wish you could enjoy the show as blithely as I do. But it is fascinating for non-medical types to read your analyses of the medical procedures afterwards. <3

[kidsnurse]

i'm glad you enjoy my rants. sadly, what i point out isn't even the half of it, and the inaccuracy seems to be getting more consistent. i mean, i'm willing, and even eager, to overlook an occasional error, but it's been bothering me so much lately that i even felt compelled to go back and add more to this post, because i was still bugged.

i need a life.....

[purridot]

Rant away!!! It's entertaining *and* educational; what more could one ask from the internet?

[chaoskir]

Uhh you made me curious about the new epi. Yesterday in Germany the showed "One day, One room" but the translation of the epi-title scares me. Really I mean it scares me. The german translation-monkeys named the epi "Zwangsarbeit". This translation of the title sucks. Arrgh,
whatever I want to see the new epi and I always need more Wilson (okay, I need more time for the fandom-stuff too, but who cares?)

[theyreforrachel]

"Zwangsarbeit" ?!

Now, I've got limited German knowledge, but doesn't that mean slave labour?

[chaoskir]

Yes something like that. The translation in Germany really sucks. In that case they mean that House was comply by Cuddy to do clinic-duty I guess but that was just a not so important part of those epi. The important part was the abusing and the sense and the implications of the sentence "One Day, One Room" but it seems the translation-monkeys in Germany don´t saw the epi. Or maybe my lonly little stupid braincell wasn´t working as I saw the epi.