Even House MD isn’t House MD. My mom, a retired physician, hated the show because of how unrealistic it was, which surprised me because I knew the people writing the show worked hard to get the details correct. The part that was unrealistic, was that, in the real world, you usually don’t need a House-style absolutely correct diagnosis to successfully treat someone, even when the patient really does have something weird.
At the beginning of one episode, after the patient’s symptoms were revealed, she said, “When someone shows up at a hospital with these symptoms, you give them [this treatment].” At the end of the episode, after Dr. House carefully figured out exactly what obscure problem the patient was suffering from, the treatment they gave the patient was exactly the same treatment my mom told me at the beginning of the episode.
Even House MD isn’t House MD. My mom, a retired physician, hated the show because of how unrealistic it was, which surprised me because I knew the people writing the show worked hard to get the details correct. The part that was unrealistic, was that, in the real world, you usually don’t need a House-style absolutely correct diagnosis to successfully treat someone, even when the patient really does have something weird.
At the beginning of one episode, after the patient’s symptoms were revealed, she said, “When someone shows up at a hospital with these symptoms, you give them [this treatment].” At the end of the episode, after Dr. House carefully figured out exactly what obscure problem the patient was suffering from, the treatment they gave the patient was exactly the same treatment my mom told me at the beginning of the episode.