Zenmervolt
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- Oct 22, 2000
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The entire show is an homage to Sherlock Holmes. House's Vicodin addiction mirrors Homles' Morphine/Cocaine use, House's interpersonal skills (or lack thereof) mirrow Holmes' as well. Anyone viewing "House" as a medical show has missed the literary reference completely. It's a detective show.
ZV
TraumaRN
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I work in a teaching hospital and have to disagree, sometimes it's boring and quiet but for whatever reason most of the doctors at work, especially the attending docs are hilarious. Granted they dont pop Vicodin and we do make fun of House because any decent internist could make most of the diagnoses without any of the drama...but still...
Now granted I have a slightly biased view since not only do I work at a teaching hospital but a teaching hospital in inner city detroit that is arguably one of the best trauma hospitals in the country....so in that sense, if you dont have a sense of humor you are fscked...
But I do wish your fiancee good luck
And I hate house the most out of the 3 medical dramas on TV....
I think House was my doctor... Gave me bags of saline when I was suffering from anemic shock after surgery.
It's just TV. Either enjoy it or watch something else.
It's just TV. Either enjoy it or watch something else.
Powermoloch
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Babbles
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It's the same way I feel about CSI.
I used to work at a forensic laboratory (not a police/government one but a private lab) as an analytical chemist. Now I work in a research oriented lab. Nevertheless seeing how they do many things on CSI just drives me nuts and I can't watch it for more than ten minutes without going nuts.
I used to work at a forensic laboratory (not a police/government one but a private lab) as an analytical chemist. Now I work in a research oriented lab. Nevertheless seeing how they do many things on CSI just drives me nuts and I can't watch it for more than ten minutes without going nuts.
I actually enjoy it quite a bit. I don't expect any TV program to be even close to realistic, although I can see how something that's closely related to your own profession would start to irritate you after a while. If I started watching that show numbers (or whatever it was called) or Criminal Intent, I'd likely get irked on occasion.
That is the premise of the entire show!!!!
He was a doctor before he was popping pills. In fact, he was one of the best on the planet, that is why he is allowed to stay. Everything he does is borderline illegal, unethical and the rest of it is questionable. The idea behind the show is that he does all these things, and is a rat bastard who is allowed to stay.... Because he is so damn good.
If you are looking at the show to pick it apart for inacuracy or real life comparisons... flip the channel and watch something else.
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
I work in a teaching hospital and have to disagree, sometimes it's boring and quiet but for whatever reason most of the doctors at work, especially the attending docs are hilarious. Granted they dont pop Vicodin and we do make fun of House because any decent internist could make most of the diagnoses without any of the drama...but still...
Now granted I have a slightly biased view since not only do I work at a teaching hospital but a teaching hospital in inner city detroit that is arguably one of the best trauma hospitals in the country....so in that sense, if you dont have a sense of humor you are fscked...
But I do wish your fiancee good luck
And I hate house the most out of the 3 medical dramas on TV....
But you see there's this thing about doctor humor... it's only funny to other doctors... most of us non-medical people don't understand most of the humor let alone think it's funny.
I imagine shocktrauma can be pretty interesting... which is where the whole ER concept came from, but for most hospital medicine.. there just isn't much going on to keep an audience focused. Unless you want to do hem/onc and just show nice people dying all the time.
Remember the purpose of a fictional TV drama is to entertain the audience, and provide some suspense and intrigue for the regular people. It is not to do an extremely realistic rendition of real life medicine. If House was true to life, it would never be a hit TV series, and I wouldn't waste my time watching it.
Take any computer hacking movie... would anyone really watch a movie that showed people madly typing UNIX commands and making phone calls to System Admins? I don't think so...
But truly... any medical drama is better than Grey's anatomy.. that show is just 90210 in a hospital..
-Max
And this is why we have sh!t-ass reality T.V. I had reality T.V. with a passion. If I wanted to see reality, I wouldn't be watching T.V.
I've never seen the show and don't care to. Whenever I see an ad for it I just have to roll my eyes when they show the main character gimping around with that cane.
Oh, I get it! He's a well respected doctor, but HE has an affliction.
Oh, I get it! He's a well respected doctor, but HE has an affliction.
He had a clotted aneurysm that led to an infarction. The doctors wanted to amputate and house refused. He wanted a bypass. Post op led to severe pain. his pain was so bad that he asked to be put in a coma until it subsided.
During this time, while he was under, his wife... stacy... was given medical proxy and used it to to operate and have all the dead muscle removed. Against House's wishes.
since they waited so long to remove the dead muscle, he is in chronic paid.. hence the pills
waggy
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what really pisses me off about CSI is the computer use. they can take a picture off someones phone. that has the picture of the victim getting murdered. enhance it so much that they can see the murders reflection in her eyes. WTF! ahh.
"zoom".."zoom"..rotate 200 degrees..."zoom"..."enhance".."enhance"..."ahha! Colnol musturd with the candle stick in the library! i knew it!"
sigh
Exactly! One with intelligent writing and great acting. I don't care if it's unrealistic since it's entertaining.
I understand the annoyance at seeing the practice of medicine gone wildly wrong, from years of shows that did the same with computer technology. But since (damnit Jim!) I'm a software developer not a doctor I can enjoy the show in blissful ignorance.
Hey Loke was close.....wait a minute.....nope I was wrong, he was just increasing his post count through misinformational posts again. That scamp!
I've caught a dozen or so episodes of house, and I always see him wtih a bike. I have obviously missed the first few episodes (seasons?) and didn't know the cause. I assumed it was a biking accident, and I bleieve I came to that conclusion with good reason.
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