Medical Reviews of "House"
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Medical Reviews of "House"
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#2I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display?
My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
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#3I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display? My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
I'm no doctor, but even on the show, House's expertise is portrayed as extraordinary.
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#4I have always felt the existence of pages like these, picking apart House and actually analyzing the content, was a good sign. If House was way off base, it would simply be dismissed out of hand.
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#5I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display? My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
I guess it would be similar in a way to how many algorithms/methods you are able to use from memory without referring to a reference in programming.
I think we have a tenancy to assume people from other professions are super human experts while knowing that even after years of experience in our own there is still a lot of times reference material needs to be looked at.
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#6I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display? My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
I'm no doctor, but even on the show, House's expertise is portrayed as extraordinary.
And he still gets it wrong at least three times an episode (twice if there's a compelling personal narrative to fit in as well).
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#7I have always felt the existence of pages like these, picking apart House and actually analyzing the content, was a good sign. If House was way off base, it would simply be dismissed out of hand.
I don't know. I thought radiation to treat a possible brain tumor without knowing where it is was way off-base.
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#8I have always felt the existence of pages like these, picking apart House and actually analyzing the content, was a good sign. If House was way off base, it would simply be dismissed out of hand.
I don't know. I thought radiation to treat a possible brain tumor without knowing where it is was way off-base.
Oh, it'll be totally loopy sometimes. I never expected perfection.
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#9I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display? My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
House is a diagnostics expert, not just a MD.
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#10I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display? My own experience with MDs, in good hospitals, was that they misdiagnose even simple and common things, that they should have been able to diagnose correctly, given the symptoms.
House is a diagnostics expert, not just a MD.
I didn't realize that "diagnostics" was a medical specialty.