Comments on: House – Episode 1 (Season Three): “Meaning”

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:19:07 +0000

What I forgot to say in the previous comment is, maybe House “overheard” the medical team saying they were going to use the treatment on him although they never make it clear in the episode.

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By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:12:45 +0000

Scott
I have a small problem regarding the continuity of this and the previous episode. If season 2 finale was almost all a hallucination, how come that the drug from Germany they treated House with was real? If he was on the operating table hallucinating, how can he have known about it? Does the ketamine make you aware in the sense that you can still hear what is being said around you? What I’m trying to say is, House “hallucinated” a reality (his being pain-free from the treatment) which, turned out to be true. Either this was a monumental coincidence, or the writers messed up the continuity. Is there any medical basis for this? I’d be interested to know.

By: Tommy Turtle

Tommy Turtle — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:48:26 +0000

“House has written a prescription for “Vicodin ES 5-500″. Now the standard dose of Vicodin is 5MG Hydrocodone + 500MG Acetaminophen, but Vicodin ES is 7.5/750, so there is no “Vicodin ES 5-500″. As Brent points out, House of all people should know better.”

We know he’s actually not taking 7.5mg, but rather the 10 mg tablet, because in one episode, Dr. Cuddy expresses her concern: “You’re up to 80 mg/day. That’s twice what you were taking when you came here”. Neither 40 nor 80 is evenly divisible by 7.5, and House doesn’t break tablets. His usual is two, apparently q.i.d = 80 mg/day.

You can definitely get 10-500. I’m not a physician, but I know this from the prescription the dentist gave me after taking a sledgehammer and a railroad spike to one of my teeth. .. btw, it’s labeled “sub for Lortab 10-500″, but I suppose the brand name Vicodin is probably recognizable to more viewers.

Is it permissible to link my parody tribute to the show in the “Website” field? All comments there are welcome … and great site, btw. Always wondered how accurate the show was; glad to have found this!

By: Gas Bandit

Gas Bandit — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:54:49 +0000

I had a thought about the Vicodin ES 5-500 bit… Often on shows or movies that involve people making dangerous things out of household chemicals, the writers intentionally flummox up the amounts. The famous “crane kick” from the Karate Kid movie was something the karateka stunt consultant came up with, having been asked to invent a “supermove” for Miyagi to teach Daniel that was both flashy AND actually completely impractical for real use (the jumping from one foot to the other robs the kick of power) so that kids wouldn’t have an imitable actual “killer karate move” to imitate on each other all summer after seeing the movie.

What if this is similar nitwit bait? So if there was someone out there who got it in his head to forge a prescription for Vicodin (”Whatever it is that House gets must be good stuff, right?”)… he’ll shoot himself in the foot and raise the suspicion (at the very least) of his neighborhood pharmacist.

By: professor petrino

professor petrino — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:03:31 +0000

i would like to test the exploding pancreas and the burning brain. aka cuddy’s disease.

By: phil

phil — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:14:23 +0000

How come House didn’t detox if he stopped using vicodin after the ketamine treatment?

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By: Gersande

Gersande — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:27:25 +0000

I know this is an old review but I’ve been going through a bit of a House phase and while I wait between loading the seasons from Itunes, I’ve been rereading your reviews, generally entertained by the tidbits of how realistic the medicine is and etc etc…

I do have a small, tiny comment to make about the spontaneous standing of the Addison patient. I have a small knowledge of that disease, as well as personal experience with it, and let me tell you, cortisol, especially when injected, works super fast. The first time I saw it being administered the effects were seen in under fifteen minutes. It was through an injection and the patient had gone undiagnosed for probably about six months (which can be very dangerous and the disease is extremely hard to test for- our doctor said the tests were inconclusive, but wanted to try the treatment just in case).

Anyways. That’s just my experience, which isn’t that vast, I must admit, but I thought you might find interesting.

Thank you very much for all these reviews. :)
Gersande

By: Kenneth John

Kenneth John — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:49:42 +0000

If it wasn’t, it should have been Loudon Wainwright III who said ‘Seven is a magic number. But then again, so is eight.’

House has been recuperating for 8 weeks, runs 8 miles and has a patient who has been wheelchair bound for 8 years. No scriptwriter with a decent ear could miss the resonance, and this writing team have ears supremely tuned to dialogue.

Are they playing games with us?

By: Miss Parker

Miss Parker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:32:35 +0000

@ Bill: Your comment makes sense to me. I have to laugh thinking of those poor people with that telephone number!
I think too even if it was not a deliberate ploy by the writers, it could merely have been a mistake that was not caught in time…we’ve established the show has its imperfections because the humans who produce it are also not perfect (who is?), even if they may try to be….it happens…