Doctor diagnoses man with help from TV's 'House'

[lighthouse33]

Doctor diagnoses man with help from TV's 'House'

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MED_TV_DIAGNOSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-06-18-31-42

[finallyadx]

Too cool - I LOVED House - looked forward to it each week, miss it now!  They ever so briefly mentioned sjogrens in a repeat I saw...just ruling it out!

[Sleepy In Seattle]

It was a great show...ironically, it was NEVER Lupus or Sarcoidosis...well I have Lupus and one of our friends has Sarcoidosis!!!!     

I also thought this was funny and very, very sad: A woman I used to work with had a nephew who was on the crew of House...so she and her husband watched it every week. The husband was a VA doctor. After a while he had to stop watching it...she asked him why - is the medical stuff too unrealistic? He said no - actually the medical stuff is fine...it's just ridiculous because no hospital would spend that much money trying to save somebody.

   

[litliwlowa]

I loved House, even his abrasive um "people skills".

He said no - actually the medical stuff is fine...it's just ridiculous because no hospital would spend that much money trying to save somebody.

That sure is the TRUTH.  Gosh, how many of us would have been diagnosed eons ago if even one doctor spent that much time (can't say money as they do get paid, not like they are spending money out of their own wallets) getting to our respective diagnoses?