Comments on: House – Episode 14 (season 2): “Sex Kills”

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:24:22 +0000

I realize that a sick heart is better than no heart at all but if Henry has a STD such as syphillis, can he be given a heart with another STD such as gonorrhea? I thought the whole point of Henry being suitable for getting a heart that had been turned down as suitable donor was because the STD was the one he already had?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:11:38 +0000

Recent studies do indeed suggest that people on long term antacids or acid reducing therapy are more susceptible to food borne illness and other gastrointestinal infections.

By: JeffH

JeffH — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:53:59 +0000

House said that antacids allow more pathogens to pass through the stomach. Do people who take antacids suffer from lots more food poisoning?

The idea of diagnosing and treating a dead person in preparation for a transplant seemed very creative on House’s part. I assume that is something rarely done in medicine.

By the way, love how House had a little more limp in his step than normal after getting kicked in the groin (which, by the way, almost made my diaphragm seize up from laughing). I’ll bet that’s the last time House tells someone: “Take it out on me, not her”.

By: Dr. R

Dr. R — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:23:44 +0000

A bit late, but Scott, the newer MRIs are on par with CT in terms of diagnosing gallstones.

By: kwh

kwh — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:39:05 +0000

This episode has one of House’s coldest and most heartless scenes of the series even up to the current date, where Wilson says he “might be going through something” about which he needed to talk to a friend. I class it as even worse than the times he’s criticized Cuddy’s attempts to be a mother (even telling her in the 3rd season that it was lucky she wasn’t a mother because she “sucked” at it.) I don’t much like Cuddy so the nasty things he says to her don’t make much of an impression on me. That and he says nasty things to her far more often than he does to Wilson. So that comment about “deeper errors” really made my eyes pop, like nothing else he’d ever said before or has said since.

By: Vick

Vick — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:11:07 +0000

Time lapse is a hard thing to pick up isn’t it. This is why in cartoons they have a spinning superhero symbol as transition between scenes. @Kristen: I think any time there was a shift in perspective minutes to hours may have passed in this complicated heart surgery which the show allotted 2 minutes to present. As for amazingly fast recoveries of patients… at the end of most episodes it can be safely assumed that days or weeks have passed so that we get to catch a glimpse of a healthy person courtesy of House, and no more nitpicks are needed based on the assumption that the patient is waking up from the procedure shown immediately prior.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:42:07 +0000

Hey Matt1618, I think the whole deal with the clinic patient was this: he made up the whole story about being obsessed with the cow (sexually) in order to get some pills that would sort of… suppress his sexual desires? This is based on the premise that such a fascination with cows is unusual and warrants a suppressant.

When he came back with the bruised ankle, House noticed a wooden splinter in it and saw that he was lying (coupled with the fact that when his bloodwork came back they found indications of his having consumed beef, which runs contrary to his professed love for cows). In reality, he needed the pills to suppress his sexual desire because his superhot stepmother was walking around the house ‘in a bikini… or less’. Yup.

By: Matt1618

Matt1618 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:22:06 +0000

uh…sorry… but I didn’t get the mini-story with the clinic patient and the cow…what point was House trying to make with him?

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:30:50 +0000

Since when do they let a dead donor’s spouse watch a transplant surgery? Since when do they let any non-hospital staff watch surgeries? That kind of bugged me. Plus the way they put the heart in him one second and less than a minute later they started it up. I’m not a doctor much less a surgeon but I’m pretty sure that some things need to be connected before you start it up.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:28:19 +0000

I have to say, after seeing the above ultra-sound picture of mitral valve vegetation (I assume “vegetation” is a growth and not a plant as Mark H fears) How do you interpret those pictures? I mean, I’ve seen the MRI of my mum who has MS, and spotting the bad spots in her brain was easy (it was the first MRI I ever took a serious look at and I did it at home, since my mum got the results on a CD-ROM), just find the white spots (there were a lot of them, though)…
But seeing that (and other) ultrasound pictures other than those made of cute little fetuses, really got me stomped. So basically much respect for that…

Sorry, just had to say it… :)