House is such a great show
House is such a great show
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Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
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Don't forget, all of this while popping Vicodin from the moment he wakes up.
Dudes doing this while on a constant hydro wave.
Then drives into a living room.
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Its Dr Sherlock, they just switched the coke for pills, Wilson is Watson, etc
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It's not even subtle, House literally lives at 221B Baker Street.
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House : Ho(l)mes
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It's moments like this that remind me that I have no ability to put things together.
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Yeah... and Avatar is Pokemon.
The reddit has taken over.
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Hey, they could have renewed Cuddy's contract!
f* Fox.
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Absolutely agree, Fox can eat rotten goat ass, I just love the absolutely insane escalation as the show went on.
The extremely rare and interesting diseases weren't enough, no, they needed to hit levels that make daytime soaps question what's going on while still somehow sticking to "He's Sherlock, but a doctor. In prison!"
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Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
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Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field.
https://www.soliant.com/blog/the-least-and-most-accurate-medical-shows/
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Geoblock
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Scrubs is, ironically, a lot less silly. It's definitely the better show, but House is sometimes laugh out loud hilarious when it tries to portray it's most unhinged episodes totally straight-faced.
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Scrubs was written by someone who got through med school, and washed out during residency, I believe.
So, yes funnt af, but accurate! I even asked a surgeon who picks the OR music once, bc I saw it on an episode.
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Hi! My name is Bob Kelso, and I like whores. Now, why don't I introduce myself like that? Because there is a time and a place for the truth.
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You, and my axe! Eagles, chaaaaaaarge!
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I would love a crossover!
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Scrubs had an episode riffing on House, close enough.
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Ba ba ba dada ba ba bum, ba ba dada ba ba baaa...
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And they’ve got an entire diagnostics team working on a single patient multiple days in a row, breaking into their house, running lab tests, and doing basically every single task a hospital has an entire staff for.
Would love to see the hospital bill
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The breaking into the patient's house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
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"Small chance the patient is lying? Break into his house, shoot his dog and steal his wife. Also, foreman is black."
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I love how about three seasons in, everyone forgets that they're doing something technically illegal.
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It's like copaganda for the health industry. Doctorganda?
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We can shorten that to Docaganda and make it a bit snappier
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Yeah, they get the billionaire treatment. I imagine this is what private healthcare is like if you have unlimited money.
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Real reason why medical treatment in the US costs more than twice per-person than every other country.
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Wait a second...which department breaks into your house?
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Extra-external Medicine.
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They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic
superheroesreckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.-
Big Lupus at it again
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It was only lupus the one time.
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It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
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I only realized this a couple years ago. I was a huge fan of the show 🤦♂️
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And he lives at 221B Baker St, which blew my mind when I realised!
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I guess you missed the parts where House had to contend with his own mental health issues and the moments of warmth and care the guy displayed.
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Something I really didn't catch during my first watch through, House cares, House cares a LOT. He acts like an asshole but from his point of view he's taking the most pragmatic and efficient route possible to save his patients, willing to risk firing, jailtime and even death to do so; the few times he loses a patient (or friend) he's devastated.
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I missed all but maybe like 5 or max 10 episodes of the entire show.
But cops in cop shows have struggles too.
(If I'm understanding you correctly they've shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)
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And breaking the rules is pretty much always justified.
Well, for cops shows and in the format.
Spoilers for House. The later seasons actually came out during the time when shoes were moving from episodic to serialised. And as the show had always recognises House as being very reckless, it was easy to write an overarching plot to the later seasons where he actually faces consequences for his behaviour and personal problems.
So unlike in cop shows, House actually does face the issue of his drug abuse and his abusive behaviour. Even going to prison at one point, albeit not for any medical shit he pulled.
The show definitely has a strong anti-authoritarian taste compared to cop shows. House is a philosopher and always improving and questioning morals whereas cops just "follow orders" and break the law to achieve "justice" (which they have a perverted view which they got through shitty propaganda and don't question.)
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My wife and I have been watching NYPD Blue recently. Fucking incredible show.
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YEAHHHHH!
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It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.
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That’s what makes it even funnier.
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I know right, it could have at last been something like...shuffles deck...sexually transmitted African sleeping sickness.
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