They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic
superheroesreckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.YEAHHHHH!
house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.
I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I’m someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most “funny” videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.
House is Sherlock Holmes in doctor form with Dr. Wilson being his Watson
House even lives in apartment 221 and loves drugs. They didn’t even try to hide their inspiration.
I just watched one where House extracted fluid from a leg growth, then from across the room he 360 no scope squirted it into patient’s daughter’s mouth.
I believe it was breast milk?
Yeah, I remember that episode. He located a suspected breast tumor on the guy’s leg by giving him a drug that caused galactorrhea and then looked for the swelling as the tumor swelled up with milk.
I get enough medical drama when I look up what’s happening to me on webMD because I don’t get insurance from any of my 3 part time jobs.
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Watch an old movie [or read the novel, I’m easy] called “The 7% Solution”
Drug addict Sherlock Holmes is cured by Sigmund Freud.
And they’ve got an entire diagnostics team working on a single patient multiple days in a row, breaking into their house, running lab tests, and doing basically every single task a hospital has an entire staff for.
Would love to see the hospital bill
Real reason why medical treatment in the US costs more than twice per-person than every other country.
Yeah, they get the billionaire treatment. I imagine this is what private healthcare is like if you have unlimited money.
The breaking into the patient’s house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
It’s like copaganda for the health industry. Doctorganda?
We can shorten that to Docaganda and make it a bit snappier
House MD hasn’t aged gracefully. It matched early that period’s obsession with edge.
I think it’s aged fine. He’s an edgy asshole and everyone hates him because he’s an asshole.
I mean sure, House is edgy, but that’s rarely portrayed to be a good thing. If anything it constantly gets him into trouble.
I remember liking Nurse Jackie more. Should re-watch that one…
Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
Scrubs was written by someone who got through med school, and washed out during residency, I believe.
So, yes funnt af, but accurate! I even asked a surgeon who picks the OR music once, bc I saw it on an episode.
You, and my axe! Eagles, chaaaaaaarge!
Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field.
https://www.soliant.com/blog/the-least-and-most-accurate-medical-shows/
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Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field
Ranked as follows: 5) Grey’s Anatomy, 4) House M.D., 3) ER, 2) St. Elsewhere, 1) Scrubs
AI-summary of page: This article ranks popular medical shows based on their accuracy in portraying hospital situations. It highlights inaccuracies in shows like Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D., and ER, while praising Scrubs for its realism. The article also debunks common medical myths perpetuated by TV shows, such as doctors operating outside their specialty and patients being revived just in time for commercial breaks.
Scrubs is, ironically, a lot less silly. It’s definitely the better show, but House is sometimes laugh out loud hilarious when it tries to portray it’s most unhinged episodes totally straight-faced.
I would love a crossover!
Scrubs had an episode riffing on House, close enough.
Dr. Cox with a cane solves various problems
Not gonna lie, I hate the show House. I’ve watched the entire series multiple times but there’s a lot do like about it, but the reason I have to hate it because the show creators said that they never wanted House to solve a case by the normal means. They wanted him to like run into their ex-gfs dog’s brother that ate something through a story while he was berating her cheating because they stepped on his cane the wrong way. For me, it would be nice to solve a case through competency … it always rubbed me the wrong way.
To be clear, this is subjective. Many people watched the shows and it made them wanna be nurses and doctors and it was their inspiration. So I’m definitely an outlier but it just gets me.
I agree with you on that, as a whole the plot structure gets awful formulaic after a while. I’ve watched it a few times now and it’s become a comfort show for me- watched it the first time for the character arcs, the second time for the philosophical themes, and subsequent times for filthy House zingers
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It sounds like it’s just not the show you’re expecting. It’s not trying to be ER or Scrubs. It’s Sherlock Holmes. It’s like watching Mindhunter and criticizing it for not being more like Cops where they solve the case because they catch the suspect in the act of trying to shove the evidence up their butt.
I just have to ask: you hate the series, but have watched the entire series multiple times?
Are you a sailor stuck at sea for months or something?
I’ve read all the twilight books, not because I thought it was good, nor because I gave a damn about any of the characters, but because I wanted to know how it ended and I wanted the ending to make sense.
lol, I gave up on the series after the fourth episode on television. First watch was because I thought I was missing something. Second watch was because my brother was around and that’s what he watched.
The other rewatches was because I needed some background stuff and I had Amazon Prime.
I like some of the characters but the show itself bugs me and I’m an idiot.
If they had Scrubs on Prime Canada I would have just watched that for the umpteenth time instead.
Wasn’t his whole job to solve a case that the other doctors couldn’t solve? When the average doctor’s competency couldn’t solve the case they’d turn it to House to use unconventional methods.
Agreed but the way it’s solved isn’t through a way that seems to make sense. It always feels contrived to me.
I’ve seen doctors react on YouTube and they were like, “why would you run this test, this other test would have shown that”
Let me be clear, I know my opinion isn’t popular and it’s all make-believe. I’m not saying my dislike for the show is rational.
I’ve watched the entire series multiple times
Why?
I have absolutely no idea. I think it was one of the few shows on Amazon Prime. I think I enjoyed some of the interplay between the characters? The medicine stuff just made me hate it.
It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.
That’s what makes it even funnier.
Anyone who wants to watch this kind of crazy in Japanese, there’s a show called Doctor X.
Is it worth watching?
There’s also Ameku MD which is currently airing
Don’t forget, all of this while popping Vicodin from the moment he wakes up.
Dudes doing this while on a constant hydro wave.
Then drives into a living room.
Its Dr Sherlock, they just switched the coke for pills, Wilson is Watson, etc
It’s not even subtle, House literally lives at 221B Baker Street.
House : Ho(l)mes
Hey, they could have renewed Cuddy’s contract!
f* Fox.
Absolutely agree, Fox can eat rotten goat ass, I just love the absolutely insane escalation as the show went on.
The extremely rare and interesting diseases weren’t enough, no, they needed to hit levels that make daytime soaps question what’s going on while still somehow sticking to “He’s Sherlock, but a doctor. In prison!”
…no, they needed to hit levels that make daytime soaps question what’s going on while still somehow sticking to “He’s Sherlock, but a doctor. In prison!”
-He even liked to watch soaps on the show.
I was young when I watched the show and thought it was at least somewhat based on real medical science.
Though I got skeptical when I saw an episode where they trained a computer on brainwaves present when they looked at different pictures and used that to visually reconstruct the patient’s lost memories or some shit?
There was one where they sorta see a dream the patient is having from brainwaves, which is sci-fi, but at least based on actual research. I don’t remember why they assumed that would help diagnose the patient, but it probably didn’t make much sense.
There’s also one where House recreates his list memories by taking many drugs
Just think, it won’t be long until now until the tech bros implant chips in us, and then governments can use them to determine our loyalty to our Great Nations and Fearless Leaders! It will be a glorious time for unity among our people, I’m sure.
Gell-Man phenomenon: popular media is accurate and trustworthy, except on any subject where you know better.
Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
Hey that’s really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
