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Dr. Cuddy | House episode title: House's Head-Wilson's Heart
| | Season, Episode: 4x15 | | Medical problem: House's heart stops. Cuddy and Wilson give him CPR. | | Inaccuracy: Cuddy is not holding his nose, air goes right out. | Correction: Hold nose people!
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| House episode title: Resignation
| Season, Episode: Season 3, Episode 22
| Medical problem:
| Inaccuracy:
In the episode "Resignation" (2007 season), the team is doing a brain surgery and the patient's head is open while they are picking at her brain tissue. Foreman, Chase, Cameron are all talking and standing there in front of her open head without masks on while Foreman picks at it to take out some tissue. ALL this without wearing a mask. AND to make matters even worse, House is there with a video camera poking it around and really close to her head. Oh please.. Germs, anyone.
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Show that the doctor's are actually doing things the right way.
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Doctor responsible:House and Foreman
| House episode title: Role Model | | Season, Episode: Season 1, Episode 117 | | Medical problem: In this episode they diagnose "Senator Gary Wright" with toxoplasmosis after they do a biopsy on a brain lesion . | Inaccuracy:
Foreman and House explain that toxoplasmosis is a "fairly common fungus from eating undercooked meat or touching cat feces". | Correction:
While it is correct that you get toxoplasmosis from eating undercooked meat or touching cat feces, toxoplasmosis is actually caused by a single-celled parasite, not a fungus. | |
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House and Foreman
| House episode title: Role Model | | Season, Episode: S1 E17 | | Medical problem: HIV/AIDS | Inaccuracy:
Foreman and House keep insisting that the Senator "you have AIDS". They seem to believe that HIV and AIDS are interchangable. They're not, one is a syndrome and one is a virus! | Correction:
Supposedly, the senator would have a weakened immune system (AIDS) from the HIV-infection. So the correct phrase would be "You have HIV" | |
Doctor responsible:
The team and patient
| House episode title:Many episodes
| Season, Episode: several
| Medical problem: suspected Multiple Sclerosis
| Inaccuracy: a doctor (usually Foreman) orders IV Interferon to stop the symptom
| Correction: Interferons (Avonex, Betaseron and Rebif) are long-term treatment options for MS (but not giving IV, but either in the muscle or in the subcutaneous tisse under the skin). Acute episodes are handled with IV Solumedrol, a steroid.
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Doctor responsible:
House
| House episode title: ---All Episodes
| Season, Episode: --- All Episodes
| Medical problem: --- "Vicodin" addiction
| Inaccuracy: --- House routinely eats large (huge, really) numbers of Vicodin, a pill which contains two active substances, hydrocodone and acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is highly liver toxic. House would be dead in of liver failure at the dosages he is using. NOBODY with any medical training at all would be abusing Vicodin like this; they would be using morphine tablets (readily available in large doses) or maybe oxycodone by itself. Methadone was an appropriate choice, though the dosing schedule was not. The hoops one must jump through to get these higher power narcotics legally might make some interesting plot points.
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