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There is always a TF2 SFM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqF1AiqyCQ
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Absolute cinema.
Mouse bites cure all
I was looking for this. Sums up every episode
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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.
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.
it's a fake drama without any basis in reality.
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.
Patients also only get sent to House when nobody else can figure it out.
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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
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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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been awhile since i watched it, but didnt they state it was some hospital in a really rich neighborhood?
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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the thing is they tamper with the queues to put themselves on top, and nobody says anything
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Inaccurate. There was way more sexual harassment.
Also butt hole worms are one of the most common and enduring medical conditions in human history.
enduring
I read this as endearing.
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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Awwwwwww
And random suffering inflicted upon the patient
Nah, not random. If they lied to Dr. House or withheld information, they deserve it (in his opinion).
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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.
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.
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.
Same way as Holmes is high fantasy to real detectives, what's your point?
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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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And Doyle got the inspiration for Holmes from watching doctors diagnose patients
Wow he must be very rich.
My doctor's appointments more closely resemble Oliver Twist.
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Just finished rewatching it. That's basically it, but it's awesome nonetheless
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
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.
House was never about the medicine.
It is about the anti-hero.
Similar to the cocaine sniffing, freelance police character House is based on
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Yeah the cases were fun and formulaic, but my favorite parts were seeing the moments House was confronted with his mental health. The guy cared a lot and had no idea how to deal with it.
Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Almost killed them. Amazing cure found in the last 5 minutes.
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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".
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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Been watching Elementary over dinner and it absolutely has the same issue 😂
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It was a show that definitely followed a rigid format
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