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OK ... I'm a HUGH fan of the TV show House. Love the character Laurie
plays. The production folks also do a great job selecting some of the
background music.
This 1st one is a bit sad (hey I can relate given my recent life change)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6eCwF7LaiA
but this one is a bit more up lifting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3u6RwzHms
Any other House fans out there?
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James Holsenback <nom### [at] none com> wrote:
> OK ... I'm a HUGH fan of the TV show House.
I assume that was an intentional pun... :)
> Any other House fans out there?
The two or three first seasons were absolutely marvelous. However, there
was a significant drop approximately by the time they decided to renew the
majority of the main cast.
I liked how in the first seasons each team member was a specialist in
a specific field of medicine, and hence contributed his/her own perspective
in each case. For example Foreman was a neurologist, so his ideas were
often related to the brain and nervous system. One of them (can't remember
now who) was a specialist in infectious diseases, so he/she contributed to
the ideas on that field, and so on.
I also liked that differential diagnostics were really differential
diagnostics, with symptoms and diseases laid out on a whiteboard, and
crossed out one at a time when they don't fit.
There's none of that anymore. In the latest seasons (spoiler alert)
we have a plastic surgeon who doesn't seem to otherwise be specialized
in anything, a general practicioner who isn't either, and some kind of
medical student/proby who isn't either. None of them contribute in any
special area of knowledge, and they just throw completely random ideas
with no pattern or logic. Even Chase has lost his specialization and it
doesn't come up anymore *at all*.
(His specialization in the first seasons has been, for some strange
reason, changed to an all-powerful surgeon specialized in all possible
fields of surgery, which is completely unrealistic and almost physically
impossible. Surgeons in general are *not* qualified to perform all types
of surgery. Each specialization takes years and years of study. Chase has
been seen to be a cardiac surgeon, neurosurgeron, microsurgeon as well as
an all-around minor surgery expert. If anything, he is way too young to
be a surgeon even in *one* specialized field, not to talk about a half a
dozen. It also raises the question of where are all the other surgeons
in the hospital because Chase seems to do all the surgeries. In the first
seasons there were actually background characters who were surgeons, but
they seem to have all disappeared.)
Speaking of surgery, the team certainly performs surgeries rather freely
(although not in the first seasons, IIRC, which were more realistic).
That's not how it works. A doctor has to be *qualified* to perform surgery
before he is even allowed to do it. An unqualified doctor performing a
surgery is a lawsuit waiting to happen (not to talk about it being damn
dangerous for the patient). Taub *might* be qualified to perform some
surgeries because he's a plastic surgeon, but even then it's far-fetched
for him to have qualifications eg. for brain surgery. (Even Foreman,
who's a neurologist, wouldn't be allowed to perform brain surgery without
the proper qualifications for that.)
Btw, have you noticed the (completely intentional) parallels between
Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes Gregory House
--------------- -------------
Job Solves criminal Solves medical
mysteries mysteries
Colleage and
best friend Dr. Watson Dr. Wilson
Plays instrument Violin Guitar, piano
Apartment # 221B 221B (in first seasons)
Addicted to Cocaine Vicodin
--
- Warp
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On 02/28/2012 11:05 AM, Warp wrote:
> James Holsenback<nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>> OK ... I'm a HUGH fan of the TV show House.
>
> I assume that was an intentional pun... :)
LOL ... yes, as I referred to him as Laurie later in that sentence ;-)
> Btw, have you noticed the (completely intentional) parallels between
> Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes?
>
> Sherlock Holmes Gregory House
> --------------- -------------
> Job Solves criminal Solves medical
> mysteries mysteries
> Colleage and
> best friend Dr. Watson Dr. Wilson
>
> Plays instrument Violin Guitar, piano
>
> Apartment # 221B 221B (in first seasons)
>
> Addicted to Cocaine Vicodin
interesting spin ... I had not picked up on that
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:25:01 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
> HUGH [...] Laurie
Couldn't resist - was the typo intentional? ;)
Jim
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On 02/28/2012 12:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:25:01 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
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>> HUGH [...] Laurie
>
> Couldn't resist - was the typo intentional? ;)
>
> Jim
LOL ... one up from you!
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Warp escreveu:
> Btw, have you noticed the (completely intentional) parallels between
> Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes?
>
> Sherlock Holmes Gregory House
> --------------- -------------
> Job Solves criminal Solves medical
> mysteries mysteries
> Colleage and
> best friend Dr. Watson Dr. Wilson
>
> Plays instrument Violin Guitar, piano
>
> Apartment # 221B 221B (in first seasons)
>
> Addicted to Cocaine Vicodin
yes, and House is a spin on "Homes"...
BTW, Sherlock Holmes himself was based on a physician of the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bell
and Conan-Doyle himself was a physician too. So, we can say Sherlock
has come a full cycle. Or perhaps Bell.
--
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:00:39 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 12:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:25:01 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
>>
>>> HUGH [...] Laurie
>>
>> Couldn't resist - was the typo intentional? ;)
>>
>> Jim
> LOL ... one up from you!
Yeah, saw that after posting. :)
Jim
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On 2/28/2012 8:25 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
> OK ... I'm a HUGH fan of the TV show House. Love the character Laurie
> plays. The production folks also do a great job selecting some of the
> background music.
>
> This 1st one is a bit sad (hey I can relate given my recent life change)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6eCwF7LaiA
>
> but this one is a bit more up lifting:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3u6RwzHms
>
> Any other House fans out there?
Yep. Watch it all the time. And, given my recent idiocy with my local
doctor, I would trade any of them in this town for someone that actually
bloody tried to figure out the problem, and didn't ship me a dozen other
places, with 3 week gaps between appointments, any day, asshole or not. lol
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