Real Doctor Reacts to HOUSE M.D. | Medical Drama Review | Doctor Mike

House makes a lot more sense as a show when you start looking at it as a Sherlock Holmes adaptation rather than just a medical drama tbh

House: "She's gonna die, BORING." Mike: "Uh, that was a little cold" Me: Watched House growing up You haven't seen anything yet.

House may not be as medically accurate as some other shows, but it’s easily one of the best shows out there. The drama, the characters, the humour. It’s perfect.

While the show is littered with inaccuracies and malpractice (years of listening to my mother calling out medical dramas for inaccuracies tells me most have a lot), it is very much worth watching because it is a mystery show where you try to figure out what is wrong with the patient before House. It can be described as in the Sherlock Holmes genre, and for good reason.

"thats 16 students, they said they have 20, where are the other 5" thank god he is a doctor not a mathematician.

"medically I'm very confused" me watching any episode of house

House: pops pills on call Mike: "NOOO, he's popping pills! Don't do that!" House: does it again later Also Mike: "I hope those are Advil."

11:08 What's not mentioned here is how pharmacists often understand the medication side of things better then doctors. Doctor prescribed a coworker with a nutallergy a medication that could kill him. Pharmasist spotted it and went "nope!" Basically saved his life. Pharmasists = awesome

“That was a little cold” Me, who regularly binges House: Oh honey

Little bit of background information on House M.D.: During first season their budget was so limited that they couldn`t afford more actors and extras. That`s why the Doctors are doing all the tests, they couldn`t hire more people to convincingly act as Nurses. They were also filming on a floor of an active hospital, so they couldn`t just go everywhere, and sometimes had to film at night to have access to rooms that were used during the day. A lot of this changed during the later seasons, but the thing with House`s team doing all the tests etc. just kinda stuck around so we could get more time with the characters. In comparison Scrubs was filmed in an abandoned Hospital, so they could do whatever the hell they wanted.

I totally understand someone saying House's "doings" are extremely unrealistic for a doctor, but i can totally get along whit it as the show clearly states that how extreme House is even in the Series and how Lisa being basically the only person accepting him and his "doings" as a doctor. I think they even said that House's Diagnostic team is an experiment.

Something with House that you come to understand is that he is obsessed with “solving the puzzle.” He doesn’t care so much for the patient’s well being as much as he does figuring out what’s wrong with them and fixing it. He needs to win.

house does only rare cases. whenever a patient gets to house all the horses were caught and only zebras are left.

Mike: ‘Hope those are advil’ House: laughs in Vicodin addiction

You make a great Wilson/Cuddy friend to House 😂 Also the when "we wouldn't normally do that" is the point of the series. It hyper focuses on how doctors follow routine which could end up missing important symptoms in patients. In a later episode an ER doctor almost sends home a patient with what they assumed was a schizophrenia and alcoholism. She ended up having a complex case that could've killed her had House not looked into it. Now of course this dramatizes a lot, but the situations in the show are mostly based off actual complex cases where people have nearly died because of misdiagnosis or oversight, sometimes even negligence. House m.d is pretty much an insult toward doctors who overlook more in-depth cases because they either think they know it all or are lazy/tired. I've actually encountered doctors who overlooked my symptoms and I nearly died until i met a doctor that took my case seriously. But of course it's a show about a miserable sarcastic doctor who does whatever he wants to get what the answers he needs.

A few points in this episode about the MRI, at least in Australia, her head wasn't packed in anywhere near tightly enough. They give you ear plugs and pack you into the head cage so you really can't move to much. They also give you a distress buzzer in your hand to squeeze if they need to pull you out. There's also no way to speak to anyone during the scan 😅

“Looks like where I grew up in Brooklyn” “Or is that a prison” is walking in a school

Two things to keep in mind when watching House MD: 1) It's just Sherlock Holmes in a medical setting 2) They are research team, who solve rare and non typical cases Alas, those are the things you don't get from watching the pilot.

"you can say you don't know" and here we see undeniable proof that this is the first episode dr mike has seen

12:30 an ER doctor reacted to this episode and said its true. Parasites can go anywhere in the body, if you got one you may well have another somewhere else.