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[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 180 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can assure you the rat wishes to be did

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Absolute cinema.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Mouse bites cure all

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

I was looking for this. Sums up every episode

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I like how every patient gets a big room with huge windows and a team of doctors on call 24/7 and 12 medical tests done a day with no waiting. And no one ever talked about the bills.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, his is typically a one-case department. They talk about cutting his department or funding regularly because it is expensive. In the end, they always conclude he does more good than harm and let him keep abusing people to save a life here or there. I'm not saying anything of this is logical, ethical, or consistent with any reality I want to live in, I'm just saying they address a lot of this across the seasons.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's a fake drama without any basis in reality.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100%, and I gotta say it was a great show. A little lacking in the last season or two but I loved the ending of the series overall.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Patients also only get sent to House when nobody else can figure it out.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i bet medical care is like that if you're rich

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[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Mood I was in the ER this weekend for a broken collarbone and saw one doctor and two nurses and Tylenol for the pain. I had to make my own follow up appt with an orthopedic doctor in network and I couldn't request my medical records to be forwarded to new office. Fuck healthcare cause 5 days after the break I finally got an opinion from a qualified doctor: NO SURGERY. Fml

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the in universe explanation was that it was a teaching hospital. But I’m pretty sure even those charge patients something in the US.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

been awhile since i watched it, but didnt they state it was some hospital in a really rich neighborhood?

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Did you watch the show? That's all explained and is not typical. House has a very specialized practice dealing in absurd rare cases that no one can figure out. There was even an entire season arc about money and profits.

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[–] gnawmon@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the thing is they tamper with the queues to put themselves on top, and nobody says anything

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[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Inaccurate. There was way more sexual harassment.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also butt hole worms are one of the most common and enduring medical conditions in human history.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

enduring

I read this as endearing.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, I only love you for your butthole worms.

My wife, who as far as I know has none, is going to be devastated.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And random suffering inflicted upon the patient

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, not random. If they lied to Dr. House or withheld information, they deserve it (in his opinion).

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[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

It's canon in the series that there's an entire budget in that hospital just for settling the lawsuits that arise due to House.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (13 children)

For those who didn't get it House is just sherlock Holmes in a medicinal setting.

His friend is Wilson instead of Watson.

He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction, hell he even uses drugs just like Holmes.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction

If you've dealt with real doctors, you know that is high fantasy.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Same way as Holmes is high fantasy to real detectives, what's your point?

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is funny because Arthur Conan Doyle based Holmes on a real life doctor who used deductions. It comes full circle!

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[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Doyle got the inspiration for Holmes from watching doctors diagnose patients

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow he must be very rich.

My doctor's appointments more closely resemble Oliver Twist.

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[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just finished rewatching it. That's basically it, but it's awesome nonetheless

[–] Dhs92@piefed.social 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hugh Laurie is an amazing actor. I watch the show as more of a character story than a medical show. Watching House's descent is just so intriguing to me

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

At the base of it, the characters are the driving aspect of the show and the episodic cases are just sort of there to drive interactions between the characters. I guess that might be how a lot of shows work though.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

House was never about the medicine.

It is about the anti-hero.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar to the cocaine sniffing, freelance police character House is based on

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] MagnusRobotFighter@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Amazing cure found in the last 5 minutes.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I apologize, but during that time we just were so disillusioned by heros, we couldn't bear them in our fiction. So we invented the "deeply flawed good guy hero".

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Invented? Lol,

Dude is a super genius finding clues where others can't whose name starts with an H with a close friend and companion whose name starts W.

Should they have just kept Holmes and Watson instead of House and Wilson to make it clear that it is Sherlock Holmes M.D.?

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[–] gazby@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been watching Elementary over dinner and it absolutely has the same issue 😂

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