Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
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.
You, and my axe! Eagles, chaaaaaaarge!
I would love a crossover!
Scrubs had an episode riffing on House, close enough.
Dr. Cox with a cane solves various problems
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.
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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Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field
Tldr?
Lot people say Scrubs like real
Ranked as follows: 5) Grey’s Anatomy, 4) House M.D., 3) ER, 2) St. Elsewhere, 1) Scrubs
AI-summary of page: This article ranks popular medical shows based on their accuracy in portraying hospital situations. It highlights inaccuracies in shows like Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D., and ER, while praising Scrubs for its realism. The article also debunks common medical myths perpetuated by TV shows, such as doctors operating outside their specialty and patients being revived just in time for commercial breaks.
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.
house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.
I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I’m someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most “funny” videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.
FWIW, an actual seizure doesn’t look anything like a Hollywood seizure. It’s both more subtle and somehow more disturbing.
yeah I don’t know I guess it’s believable enough. it’s funny, I enjoy completely over the top violence, like mortal kombat / doom levels, and most action movies. but seeing someone just trip and fall brings a visceral reaction.
it just doesn’t register as entertainment in my brain the way the over the top stuff do. house falls into the realistic category so it’s harder for me to watch.
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.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.
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.
My interpretation was that he cares about solving the riddle in time, kinda like competing with the diseases to show he’s better. I don’t remember anything about him caring about the people specifically, except for a few specific patients that he liked.
How’d you miss that?
First time I watched I was like 11.
Oh well that’d be it then, yeah.
Apologies for having what was perhaps an agecentric take.
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.)
(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.)
Specifically he starts season 6 in a psychiatric hospital and season 8 in prison. As always he tries to cheat his way out of the system, but ends up being humbled in season 6 and committing to treatment. He fakes his death at the end of season 8, because he’s going to go back to prison (damage caused by a prank gone wrong), Wilson has cancer and House would be in prison well past Wilson’s estimated remaining time.
Big Lupus at it again
It was only lupus the one time.
Now thats what I call effective advertising!
YEAHHHHH!
My wife and I have been watching NYPD Blue recently. Fucking incredible show.
It’s literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
And he lives at 221B Baker St, which blew my mind when I realised!
Holmes & Watson, House & Wilson.
The name “House” is a play on “Holmes” (with English pronunciation, a homophone for “homes”)
There’s a ton:
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Gregory_House_and_Sherlock_Holmes_connections
I only realized this a couple years ago. I was a huge fan of the show 🤦♂️
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.)
House: Pops three Percocet let’s amputate something
Cameron: Wouldn’t you like to see the case first?
House: Why? You’ll just think it’s allergies. Also, I’ll never fuck you.
Foreman: Hey I did normal doctor things.
House: Fucking idiot
I think it was Vicodin.
That’s what makes the show awesome. I want it even more ludicrous.
A lot of the cases are… loosely… based on real medical discoveries and treatments. You just pack them all under the arm of one guy to make him some kind of Doctor Genius God.
I’m glad they didn’t go full on X-Files with it or inject a bunch of quackery. The show was at its strongest when it was incredible without being unbelievable.
It’s a medical version of sherlock holmes, why do you think he’s called house.
cuz he breaks into people’s houses
I thought it was all the doof doof
But, does that make lupus Moriarty then?
I’m just kidding, I already knew about the House/Holmes connection because I’m terminally online.
House is Sherlock Holmes in doctor form with Dr. Wilson being his Watson
House even lives in apartment 221 and loves drugs. They didn’t even try to hide their inspiration.
i dont think they were trying to hide it? his name is house, like a home (holme)
I mean, that was literally the elevator pitch for the show - Sherlock Holmes as an American doctor. They even made a point in casting of not wanting a British actor which makes it even funnier that Hugh Laurie got the part.
Holmes = House Watson = Wilson 7% solution of cocaine = Vicodin
The biggest difference is that he’s essentially his own Moriarty, and his Reichenbach Falls involved a burning house, heroin and hallucinations of dead former team members.
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Watch an old movie [or read the novel, I’m easy] called “The 7% Solution”
Drug addict Sherlock Holmes is cured by Sigmund Freud.
I get enough medical drama when I look up what’s happening to me on webMD because I don’t get insurance from any of my 3 part time jobs.
I just watched one where House extracted fluid from a leg growth, then from across the room he 360 no scope squirted it into patient’s daughter’s mouth.
I believe it was breast milk?
Yeah, I remember that episode. He located a suspected breast tumor on the guy’s leg by giving him a drug that caused galactorrhea and then looked for the swelling as the tumor swelled up with milk.
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
Yeah, they get the billionaire treatment. I imagine this is what private healthcare is like if you have unlimited money.
It’s like copaganda for the health industry. Doctorganda?
We can shorten that to Docaganda and make it a bit snappier
The breaking into the patient’s house thing became basically a running joke by the end. They did it nearly every episode.
I love how about three seasons in, everyone forgets that they’re doing something technically illegal.
“Small chance the patient is lying? Break into his house, shoot his dog and steal his wife. Also, foreman is black.”
Also, foreman is black.
He actually mentions at one point that part of why he picked Foreman was because of his juvenile criminal history.
Wait a second…which department breaks into your house?
Extra-external Medicine.
Real reason why medical treatment in the US costs more than twice per-person than every other country.
You know what? Ill admit it: it’s not a good show. The episodes are basically always the same and it’s not realistic. But I have fun watching it
I appreciate that every episode has a breaking-and-entering segment.
US: ER/ED (Emergency Room/Department)
UK: A&E (Accident & Emergency)
House: B&E (Breaking & Entering)
That’s just New Jersey though.
expect when he was pretty transphobic, that wasn’t cool…
He was generally an asshole to everyone, I think this actually makes him inclusive
The mists of time grow e’er near
Are you talking about the super model episode?
She wasn’t trans, she was intersex.
There’s another episode where a young boy is also intersex.
House treats both really shitty
He treats everyone really shitty. He’s an equal opportunity asshole.
Sure, but misgendering someone because they have testicles is a whole other level of shitty.
That’s because this topic is in special focus today, for you and many others. But it’s really not different to treating someone shitty for any other reason they can’t do anything about, like being bald or small or whatever.
It’s just always shitty to treat people shitty, it’s not a contest who least deserves to be treated shittily.
Lol, no it’s not.
Transpeople see this as unfair towards them.
she was intersex.
Specifically 46,XY with CAIS, causing a total lack of response to androgens, and since those are what tell a fetus to develop male bits instead of defaulting to female bits…
House says the perfect woman is a man. He’s a chaser.
I think the point of him is that he’s in pain and also a giant asshole to almost everyone.
That episode would never fly today though.
The censorship crowd has won.
It bothers me that her far-fetched idea is butthole worms, when that is one of the most common parasites in the world.
I know right, it could have at last been something like…shuffles deck…sexually transmitted African sleeping sickness.
That’s what makes it even funnier.
I’ve only seen a couple episodes. Including the one where he discovered a patient has HIV because he couldn’t get rid of the hiccups. Thanks for the new fear!
Hey that’s really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
