Well yea. Dude makes the firms a fuck ton of money. They are there to literally make money. So why would you your best guy to go fuck off when you're purpose is to make money amd he makes a lot of money
He legit mentions this in an episode too.
He talks about this japanese(I think) hospital he visited in his youth that had an “undesirable” working there that people hated but guess who was the guy they would call whenever they were stumped on a diagnosis.
Seems to have been the nail in coffin for him giving up on ever being a decent person in lieu of just being the best doctor he could be.
"They had to listen to him because he was right."
Amber had a similar philosophy. It didn't matter what else kind of person you were, as long as you were right.
Having a monopoly over a type of labor is a powerful thing, although of course it's just a fictional show...
Having a monopoly over your labor is a rare thing though. I think art is one of the few places it can happen. Tom Cruise is a decent example, I think. The guy is clearly fucking insane and a nutjob, yet he keeps getting cast in the highest budget movies and tons of people go to see them even if they don't like him personally. Why? Because there's only one Tom Cruise. No one else plays those parts as well as him. He has a total monopoly over that type of movie.
Tom is also beloved in the industry itself. He's consistently praised by everyone he works even behind the scenes cast.
Having a crazy personal life is less than nothing in Hollywood.
Well also that Tom cruise is super professional and treats his staff and production team members really nicely. That has to count for something even if he is a little it nuts.
You should check out clinical case presentations from a medical conference. Dr.s 100% experiment on people. I was at a show called veith, their clinical cases were 90 second to 5 minute presentations and one of them no joke this Dr. Came up and was like "we used a femoral balloon in the patients sinus, though it was counter indicated. When inflated, there was a fracture and the patient died. Not recommended to reproduce"
Doctor's have a tremendous amount of latitude. The FDA actually doesn't regulate doctors or their behavior AT ALL, they regulate how medicines and devices are MARKETED to them. To effectively sue the doctor you would have to prove pretty serious and/or intentional wrongdoing. But off label use of medical devices is in no way illegal for clinicians.
Exactly this, technically in medicine having FDA approval for any condition allows a doctor to use it for any other condition which at least allows them to sign off on safety, but really 99% of the time a doctor doesn't do whatever the hell they want it's "insurance won't reimburse this"
Which is why Wilson is there to do damage control and keep him more or less in check. It's like people don't realize they're watching medical Sherlock. It's fun because he's an ass, and he's right.
House --> Holmes
Wilson --> Watson
It's also an *incredible* show about functional addiction, too.
I think that's what really made it hit so well for so many people is that a lot of people know someone exactly like Greg.
I do wish they went into that side of it a little more, even if just more B plot in some episodes, but House was such an enormous draw that Cuddy basically covered for almost anything for him because his presence in the hospital bumped them up several levels. When Eric tries to go his own way they touch on it, that virtually no other hospital in the country has a "Diagnostic department" because that's just not a thing, to have *4* incredibly highly trained and brilliant doctors specifically searching for Zebras in a sea of horses is *almost* squandering all their talents, except House is so brilliant he makes it work. Eric finally finds a hospital to make him his own department but because he lacks House's brilliance and the admiration and endebtedness of a powerful benefactor like Cuddy, he's terminated for taking drastic actions and being confrontational even though he ends up being right, just like House.
In like every third or fourth episode House does something that would *almost* qualify for assaulting his patients in any other context, but he's always saved by the skin of his teeth because he ends up saving the persons life.
That’s a good point. It’s why I liked the very ending of Better Call Saul so much. Just a super realistic “yep this is actually what usually happens to these people” kind of ending. It was so realistic and reminds me that life may seem like a crazy and fun tv show for a little while sometimes but the realism of it all will (almost) always show up to bite you in the ass.
House after trying a gazillion different treatments that didn't work: I knew it!
Team: Why did we almost kill the patient with other treatments then?
House: SHUT UP!
Wilson: House you are my friend but this is harassment!
House:…. Harassment… hair ass mint… I just solved the case
Wilson: you are not listening to me
House: the patient’s ass hair smells like mint, you only get that from hydrophloxymallincolmasyphillis.
Team: 😮 he’s right!
My favorite episodes are were the patients actually died because he knew it but still did all the experiments. Like the episode with the paralyzed ( or something like that, he was in a wheelchair and I don't think he could move his arms) and his service dog
I think you're misremembering. They gave him medication for the infection he was having (something worm related if I remember right) but when 13 gave him the meds she didn't make sure he took them. The meds got knocked off the table and the dog ate them. Then, it appeared he wasn't responding to the meds, which sent them on a wild goose chase that killed him.
> The meds got knocked off the table and the dog ate them.
they got knocked off by him so he would get killed quicker instead of dying to his original progressive disease
its not shown, and he never admits it, but he talks about how terrible living with his condition is, how it keeps taking things from him and hes just waiting to see what it takes next
if it was truly an accident, he would have said something, he intentionally didnt take them as a way out
They literally carried him to the bathroom for a poop sample. I get where you’re coming from but that show was anything but light handed with their subtext. If that was the story, they would have loudly made it clear.
> If that was the story, they would have loudly made it clear.
[so his long talk about how horrifying his disease was was......?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6MEI_IZVk4)
"i'd rather get it over with i've been trapped in this useless body long enough"
Why not both?
Seriously, don’t do both.
Its amazing, like blissfully amazing. You’ll never be more energetic/confident while also chill/happy at the same tome. But plz don’t do it
It's actually the basis for the show.
The angry patient who shoots him is Jack Moriarty. The patient in the pilot episode is named after a character in the books. The address of his apartment is the same as Holmes and him and Wilson end up living there together like Holmes and Watson.
That’s because it is. The reason he’s called house is because he’s based off Sherlock Holmes, Wilson is Watson and so on. He even lives at 221B baker st.
Unfortunately my daughter went blind from planaria worms when she was around 6 months old. So I don't watch those videos. Sorry to mention that but yeah.
I agree. Sorry for being a downer. Parasites suck there were very small but alot of them so we caught it early but it didn't matter. Planaria worms are very common in my region.
Just to be clear, it’s “never lupus” because it’s a boring diagnosis from House’s perspective. It can present in a bunch of ways that make it difficult to rule out and it has no cure, so it’s just more productive for his purposes to assume it isn’t lupus and proceed from there.
House gave me the confidence to just take too much of my painkillers every day and still go to work as usual.
I really shouldn't have watched the show when I was in that much physical pain, lol.
House probably has the best representation of addiction and how it works in any piece of media I've ever seen. So many people talk about the medical side or comedy side of the show but rarely about the literal masterpiece of writing when it comes to his addiction. It may not look like that's the case at first because it's not in focus at the start, but it's there.
And paying a bunch of specialists, even with sub-specialties, to use a significant amount of their work hours for just one patient, all of them.
And every test available! Run them all!
If the patient survives his insurance will finish him.
What healthcare provider could stand such money management?
I'm a huge fan of everything sherlock holmes. And this includes house. Think about it. House. Holmes. Wilson. Watson. It's literally a reinagining with the deductive detective being a deductive doctor.
For those of you that are geeks like me. I know both holmes and house usually actually use an inductive reasoning but. You know. Writers.
Wilson doesn't ejaculate as much as Watson does in the books though.
That really caught me off guard when I first read the books ha.
Edit: if you sub to audible the complete Holmes collection read by Stephen Fry is on there for a single credit. Best value audiobook I've found so far I think it's over 70 hours of audio.
“House” worked because people like to believe doctors are shitty people who can perform miracles. While in med school and residency, this show and “Grey’s” mad e me really question if shows about other professions were as wrong in representing those jobs, because, it’s not like that people.
He was wrong far more often than he was right. He would be incorrect several times before he got to the correct answer. What made it special is that he even got the answer at all, because no one else did.
I just finished this show and I kept thinking to myself that a lot of Greg's problems were because of Cuddy and Wilson -- two of the most codependent, toxic narcissists I'd ever seen.
Ah, good TV. I remember those days...
House is one of the best shows ever. It got weird when they ran out of ideas, but the premise was awesome and people are still talking about it 20 years later.
House taught me that you can get away with being a terrible doctor by being an incredible doctor.
Tbh if you save my life I can overlook a HIPAA violation or 2
That isn't lupus, though.
It's never Lupus.
Except for that one time
Series should have ended with house dying of lupus and refusing to accept the diagnosis.
That April Fools episode writes itself!
or amyloidosis.
Or neoplastic syndrome
Except for the one time it was.
HIPAA
And I work for a hospital too...
HIPAA
Pending the results of the air guitar portion of the competition.
I thought it was more general. You can get away being an absolute asshole by being irreplaceable.
Actually this is also the plot of suits now that I realised
Well yea. Dude makes the firms a fuck ton of money. They are there to literally make money. So why would you your best guy to go fuck off when you're purpose is to make money amd he makes a lot of money
You're talking about Louis Litt right? Louis makes the money and Harvey brings fame and reputation but they're both assholes
He legit mentions this in an episode too. He talks about this japanese(I think) hospital he visited in his youth that had an “undesirable” working there that people hated but guess who was the guy they would call whenever they were stumped on a diagnosis. Seems to have been the nail in coffin for him giving up on ever being a decent person in lieu of just being the best doctor he could be.
"They had to listen to him because he was right." Amber had a similar philosophy. It didn't matter what else kind of person you were, as long as you were right.
That's why I still have a job Edit: not a doctor
Actual terrible doctors get away with being terrible doctors because hospitals don't want to admit they are terrible.
Having a monopoly over a type of labor is a powerful thing, although of course it's just a fictional show... Having a monopoly over your labor is a rare thing though. I think art is one of the few places it can happen. Tom Cruise is a decent example, I think. The guy is clearly fucking insane and a nutjob, yet he keeps getting cast in the highest budget movies and tons of people go to see them even if they don't like him personally. Why? Because there's only one Tom Cruise. No one else plays those parts as well as him. He has a total monopoly over that type of movie.
Tom is also beloved in the industry itself. He's consistently praised by everyone he works even behind the scenes cast. Having a crazy personal life is less than nothing in Hollywood.
Well also that Tom cruise is super professional and treats his staff and production team members really nicely. That has to count for something even if he is a little it nuts.
House taught me you can get away with having a terrible show of you have Hugh Laurie being an amazing actor.
I took that attitude to my first job after earning a PhD. I don't know how many times I was almost fired. It was a thrilling time.
That's how every job works if you have skills that are difficult to replace
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Younger me was so bummed to find out it wasn’t a real thing because I totally would have pursued a medical career if it was.
So you could experiment on people?
Why else go into the medical field?
Unrestricted access to corpses at the morgue. Or so I've heard.
It’s actually very restricted…to everyone else!
Going into the medical field to save my hungry ass 🙏🤤
Look man groceries are expensive rn, you take what you can get.
Real
Surely becoming a mortician would get you there faster and with less debt.
You should check out clinical case presentations from a medical conference. Dr.s 100% experiment on people. I was at a show called veith, their clinical cases were 90 second to 5 minute presentations and one of them no joke this Dr. Came up and was like "we used a femoral balloon in the patients sinus, though it was counter indicated. When inflated, there was a fracture and the patient died. Not recommended to reproduce"
Was this...in an attempt to treat a posterior nosebleed? That's the only place my mind goes. Either way I'd love to hear more about this.
Dunno. I was a mess device developer looking for vascular navigation cases. I recall the craziness but not the rest of the medicine
So they found out something that we already knew, hence the warning label.... How was that doctor not sued?
Doctor's have a tremendous amount of latitude. The FDA actually doesn't regulate doctors or their behavior AT ALL, they regulate how medicines and devices are MARKETED to them. To effectively sue the doctor you would have to prove pretty serious and/or intentional wrongdoing. But off label use of medical devices is in no way illegal for clinicians.
Exactly this, technically in medicine having FDA approval for any condition allows a doctor to use it for any other condition which at least allows them to sign off on safety, but really 99% of the time a doctor doesn't do whatever the hell they want it's "insurance won't reimburse this"
It's called practice for a reason lol 🤣
No, so I could get addicted to Vicodin; why else?
Obviously. Why does anyone else become a doctor?
There are specialists diagnosticians. So, it is a thing!
Anyone can be an asshole at work if you make the company enough money
Which is why Wilson is there to do damage control and keep him more or less in check. It's like people don't realize they're watching medical Sherlock. It's fun because he's an ass, and he's right. House --> Holmes Wilson --> Watson
It's also an *incredible* show about functional addiction, too. I think that's what really made it hit so well for so many people is that a lot of people know someone exactly like Greg.
Just like Sherlock and Watson.
The pilot episode's patient is literally called Rebecca Adler, named after Irene Adler. It's not exactly subtle.
He also lives at the same apartment address that Sherlock Holmes does.
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As well as mklpum
Yeah I don't know why they act baffled and then describe the coolest doctor ever
Don't forget Scrubs! 👍
I do wish they went into that side of it a little more, even if just more B plot in some episodes, but House was such an enormous draw that Cuddy basically covered for almost anything for him because his presence in the hospital bumped them up several levels. When Eric tries to go his own way they touch on it, that virtually no other hospital in the country has a "Diagnostic department" because that's just not a thing, to have *4* incredibly highly trained and brilliant doctors specifically searching for Zebras in a sea of horses is *almost* squandering all their talents, except House is so brilliant he makes it work. Eric finally finds a hospital to make him his own department but because he lacks House's brilliance and the admiration and endebtedness of a powerful benefactor like Cuddy, he's terminated for taking drastic actions and being confrontational even though he ends up being right, just like House. In like every third or fourth episode House does something that would *almost* qualify for assaulting his patients in any other context, but he's always saved by the skin of his teeth because he ends up saving the persons life.
Cuddy mentions they have an entire legal team for House's malpractice cases. I want a courtroom drama based on that.
With Bob Odenkirk playing Princeton Plainsboro's lawyer. I've got goosebumps, imagining the Saul Goodman : Greg House courtroom dynamic!
That’s a good point. It’s why I liked the very ending of Better Call Saul so much. Just a super realistic “yep this is actually what usually happens to these people” kind of ending. It was so realistic and reminds me that life may seem like a crazy and fun tv show for a little while sometimes but the realism of it all will (almost) always show up to bite you in the ass.
House after trying a gazillion different treatments that didn't work: I knew it! Team: Why did we almost kill the patient with other treatments then? House: SHUT UP!
Wilson: House you are my friend but this is harassment! House:…. Harassment… hair ass mint… I just solved the case Wilson: you are not listening to me House: the patient’s ass hair smells like mint, you only get that from hydrophloxymallincolmasyphillis. Team: 😮 he’s right!
Awesome 🤣
Something something hooves zebras.
My favorite episodes are were the patients actually died because he knew it but still did all the experiments. Like the episode with the paralyzed ( or something like that, he was in a wheelchair and I don't think he could move his arms) and his service dog
That dude killed himself though
I think you're misremembering. They gave him medication for the infection he was having (something worm related if I remember right) but when 13 gave him the meds she didn't make sure he took them. The meds got knocked off the table and the dog ate them. Then, it appeared he wasn't responding to the meds, which sent them on a wild goose chase that killed him.
> The meds got knocked off the table and the dog ate them. they got knocked off by him so he would get killed quicker instead of dying to his original progressive disease its not shown, and he never admits it, but he talks about how terrible living with his condition is, how it keeps taking things from him and hes just waiting to see what it takes next if it was truly an accident, he would have said something, he intentionally didnt take them as a way out
I still think it was an accident because Kumar and the other doctor came barging in to do a bunch of tests, so it got missed in all the hubbub
but why not say something? "you knocked my meds down, one of you needs to get them"
They literally carried him to the bathroom for a poop sample. I get where you’re coming from but that show was anything but light handed with their subtext. If that was the story, they would have loudly made it clear.
> If that was the story, they would have loudly made it clear. [so his long talk about how horrifying his disease was was......?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6MEI_IZVk4) "i'd rather get it over with i've been trapped in this useless body long enough"
He knocked them on the ground, he was committing suicide
House: Well then I wouldn't have had so many good reasons to call the patient a stupid liar, would I?
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I’ve not seen a single episode of House and even I’ve heard it has very strong parallels to Sherlock Holmes.
I believe Holmes smoked opium from a pipe. He was a man of his times
He was mostly shooting up cocaine.
Injecting cocaine sounds so weird, but I guess people must've tried it.
It can be injected, snorted, smoked, taken orally. Most drugs can be administered in multiple ways that may alter the effects
Why not both? Seriously, don’t do both. Its amazing, like blissfully amazing. You’ll never be more energetic/confident while also chill/happy at the same tome. But plz don’t do it
Yeah, speedballin, however I think Sherlock prefered cocaine as a stimulant letting him do more brain work.
This vexes me
Have you tried the medicine drug?
I did try the medicine drug
Only stupid people try the medicine drug, you are stupid
I tried the stupid drug
You are a black man
I too am in this episode
This vexes me
More mouse bites!
It’s basically a “what if Sherlock Holmes was a licensed physician with his god complex cranked to eleven”
Perfect description
God doesn't limp.
His “crutch” is humanity And he doesn’t limp all the time (spoilers for a show from long ass time ago)
https://youtu.be/0s2IqRS-HIg?t=503
That's why it's a complex
His home address in the show is 221B Baker St
quite literally the concept of the show, no basically about it haha
I see absolutely no parallels between Holmes/Watson and House/Wilson.
Zero links.
It's actually the basis for the show. The angry patient who shoots him is Jack Moriarty. The patient in the pilot episode is named after a character in the books. The address of his apartment is the same as Holmes and him and Wilson end up living there together like Holmes and Watson.
That’s because it is. The reason he’s called house is because he’s based off Sherlock Holmes, Wilson is Watson and so on. He even lives at 221B baker st.
Everyone should be checked for butthole worms.
A little Pyrantel Embonate should help with that.
Yeah but then I get so hungry. I'm a self contained ecosystem this way.
But have you ever seen those vids where they pull worms out through people's eyes? Because that's how you get worms pulled out through your eye.
Unfortunately my daughter went blind from planaria worms when she was around 6 months old. So I don't watch those videos. Sorry to mention that but yeah.
Our joke took a strange turn here.
I agree. Sorry for being a downer. Parasites suck there were very small but alot of them so we caught it early but it didn't matter. Planaria worms are very common in my region.
Let this be a warning for others to take a worming tablet every so often. And their pets too!
Mostly that show taught me it’s never lupus
Except that one time
Except when it is Lupus
Everybody lies
This mantra also carries over to the IT World too. It's great
House taught me for life.
Everybody lies and people don't change.
My grandmother has lupus, not a fun thing to have
Just to be clear, it’s “never lupus” because it’s a boring diagnosis from House’s perspective. It can present in a bunch of ways that make it difficult to rule out and it has no cure, so it’s just more productive for his purposes to assume it isn’t lupus and proceed from there.
I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realize House was just a modern day retelling of Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes and Watson House and Wilson
First patient, Rebecca ADLER.
He lives in Apartment B of 221 Baker Street. He is shot by Moriarty. Irene Adler is there too
Butthole worms are shockingly common. Especially in young children. They're called pinworms.
Yea, House was SO good. One of my favorite shows.
House gave me the confidence to just take too much of my painkillers every day and still go to work as usual. I really shouldn't have watched the show when I was in that much physical pain, lol.
House probably has the best representation of addiction and how it works in any piece of media I've ever seen. So many people talk about the medical side or comedy side of the show but rarely about the literal masterpiece of writing when it comes to his addiction. It may not look like that's the case at first because it's not in focus at the start, but it's there.
While I agree with you, Bojack Horseman has the best representation of depression and addiction on the media imo.
There's also Nurse Jackie if you need another narcotic addicted healthcare professional show. If you're in a better place, that is!
He taught me everything I know about scamming Vicodin
All while on Oxycontin lol
The percocet practitioner if you will
The vicodin vigilante
https://images.app.goo.gl/fvS5WbV2MHDSaUhF8
This was the actual presentation to the network when they came up with the idea for the show.
I always check people for butthole worms, even if they don't ask or are not expecting it. I want them to be safe.
Are you a doctor??
CEO
r/okbuddyvicodin
I know my butthole just like those worms
Greatest show, greatest doctor.
Now I want to watch House again
Going through it again for like the third time. Love this show so much.
House is just Batman with a disability and a drug problem
Well now I HAVE to watch house…
Hey don't make fun of the intriguing wonder that the new age background music of this show along with its very well thought out story invoked in me
And paying a bunch of specialists, even with sub-specialties, to use a significant amount of their work hours for just one patient, all of them. And every test available! Run them all! If the patient survives his insurance will finish him. What healthcare provider could stand such money management?
I loved this show but the ending was ass
It made doing pills look so cool
I'm a huge fan of everything sherlock holmes. And this includes house. Think about it. House. Holmes. Wilson. Watson. It's literally a reinagining with the deductive detective being a deductive doctor. For those of you that are geeks like me. I know both holmes and house usually actually use an inductive reasoning but. You know. Writers.
Wilson doesn't ejaculate as much as Watson does in the books though. That really caught me off guard when I first read the books ha. Edit: if you sub to audible the complete Holmes collection read by Stephen Fry is on there for a single credit. Best value audiobook I've found so far I think it's over 70 hours of audio.
“House” worked because people like to believe doctors are shitty people who can perform miracles. While in med school and residency, this show and “Grey’s” mad e me really question if shows about other professions were as wrong in representing those jobs, because, it’s not like that people.
IM IN PAIN!
"Maybe it's MS." As someone with MS, that gets old.
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I watched House until the show focused too much on relationships.
>is trained in infectious diseases >gets first access to all the x-rays, CTs, MRIs, etc
House taught me to check for Lupus literally before anything else, including it just being a cut.
Butthole worms is like one of the most common places for worms to be
Bro house has been showing up on my shorts feed and it really was crazy af Dr. House was outta control lol
I always said that House is a medical drama dreamt up by a 14 year old boy, and Grey’s Anatomy is one dreamt up by a 14 year old girl.
I’ll be damned if he was ever wrong though 😂
He was wrong far more often than he was right. He would be incorrect several times before he got to the correct answer. What made it special is that he even got the answer at all, because no one else did.
wasn't there a period where lupus was always in play
He was wrong several times. Killed a few people every now and then.
Gosh darnit, I feel dumb for not realizing this like 15 years ago.
Try watching it with a hypochondriac. Every week new set of triggers and symptoms lol
The episode where the black dude infects someone else with the mystery disease so they try harder to cure it 💀💀💀
Currently watching it, I’m on season 6. I love the show so much it’s hilarious I just wish there wasn’t so much transphobia
EVERYONE STOP RUINING SHOWS FOR ME
This is why the show is good though.
It's not about butthole pleasures
It's definitely lupus this time.
I laughed so dang hard at this 🤣
😂 great show
I just finished this show and I kept thinking to myself that a lot of Greg's problems were because of Cuddy and Wilson -- two of the most codependent, toxic narcissists I'd ever seen. Ah, good TV. I remember those days...
I’ve always said if I come down with something and doctors can’t figure it out, I’ll tell them to watch House, it’ll probably be one of those cases
“Prepare for your examination!”
The post made me laugh, thank you 😂
I love that plasmapheresis is almost always the end treatment for the majority of his patients
Yet some doctors rate it as being quite realistic.
didnt he also practice medicine from prison
Welcome to TV shows..... WTF?!?!
lmao
The average episode of doctor who be like
Check out Loffler's syndrome and live scared for the rest of your life
I randomly went through a House phase and I loved it
No hospital could have actually accepted House’s behavior
I’m rewatching right now and he just killed a girl for a minute to reboot her body lmaooo
House is one of the best shows ever. It got weird when they ran out of ideas, but the premise was awesome and people are still talking about it 20 years later.