Been watching Elementary over dinner and it absolutely has the same issue ๐
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It's canon in the series that there's an entire budget in that hospital just for settling the lawsuits that arise due to House.
For those who didn't get it House is just sherlock Holmes in a medicinal setting.
His friend is Wilson instead of Watson.
He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction, hell he even uses drugs just like Holmes.
Which is funny because Arthur Conan Doyle based Holmes on a real life doctor who used deductions. It comes full circle!
He is a genius, eccentric who solves mysteries using his intellect and deduction
If you've dealt with real doctors, you know that is high fantasy.
House/Homes/Holmes
Abode
Cuddy has A body
Holmes on homes.
And Doyle got the inspiration for Holmes from watching doctors diagnose patients
Wow he must be very rich.
My doctor's appointments more closely resemble Oliver Twist.
I apologize, but during that time we just were so disillusioned by heros, we couldn't bear them in our fiction. So we invented the "deeply flawed good guy hero".
Invented? Lol,
Dude is a super genius finding clues where others can't whose name starts with an H with a close friend and companion whose name starts W.
Should they have just kept Holmes and Watson instead of House and Wilson to make it clear that it is Sherlock Holmes M.D.?
Oh wow also "homes" (Holmes) vs "house" really makes it less subtle than I thought...
I don't remember it but apparently even House's address is Baker Street 221b
yes, but the "FLAWED" dial is turned up to 11 in House md compared to the original.
Definitely not only the second case ever
I like how every patient gets a big room with huge windows and a team of doctors on call 24/7 and 12 medical tests done a day with no waiting. And no one ever talked about the bills.
Because people want to watch something that makes them feel good... Real life doesnt have beautiful doctors with perfect bodies, hair and makeup either. And the light is not turned down and romantic. Lols.
And I kind of like the story. Imagine if you actually had a genius doctor that would always be right. The hospital wouldnt fire him, or maybe they would, if they dont care if patients get better. In real life, maybe more money in keeping them sick.
Did you watch the show? That's all explained and is not typical. House has a very specialized practice dealing in absurd rare cases that no one can figure out. There was even an entire season arc about money and profits.
How does employing House make the hospital money?
It's a teaching hospital, so they don't (entirely) rely on the regular patient-funded system common in the USA.
House's reputation can totally help with funding.
been awhile since i watched it, but didnt they state it was some hospital in a really rich neighborhood?
I think the in universe explanation was that it was a teaching hospital. But Iโm pretty sure even those charge patients something in the US.
Well, his is typically a one-case department. They talk about cutting his department or funding regularly because it is expensive. In the end, they always conclude he does more good than harm and let him keep abusing people to save a life here or there. I'm not saying anything of this is logical, ethical, or consistent with any reality I want to live in, I'm just saying they address a lot of this across the seasons.
Patients also only get sent to House when nobody else can figure it out.
it's a fake drama without any basis in reality.
100%, and I gotta say it was a great show. A little lacking in the last season or two but I loved the ending of the series overall.
Mood I was in the ER this weekend for a broken collarbone and saw one doctor and two nurses and Tylenol for the pain. I had to make my own follow up appt with an orthopedic doctor in network and I couldn't request my medical records to be forwarded to new office. Fuck healthcare cause 5 days after the break I finally got an opinion from a qualified doctor: NO SURGERY. Fml
"Fuck American healthcare" FTFY
i bet medical care is like that if you're rich
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I love Lemmy
please do not the rat
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Can confirm
Absolute cinema.
I was looking for this. Sums up every episode
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Inaccurate. There was way more sexual harassment.
Also butt hole worms are one of the most common and enduring medical conditions in human history.
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House was never about the medicine.
It is about the anti-hero.
Similar to the cocaine sniffing, freelance police character House is based on
Didn't he do heroin?
It was redressing Sherlock Holmes in a medical context.
Yeah the cases were fun and formulaic, but my favorite parts were seeing the moments House was confronted with his mental health. The guy cared a lot and had no idea how to deal with it.
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