Also, faith is not something that thrives on the lack of proof. We act on the basis of faith (not proof) everyday.

I do appreciate this episode as sort of a balance to the ones that are blatantly pro kill-the-fetus/parasite/tumor.

As for the show, I don’t see how Cuddy’s going with instinct (and against the odds) is any different than House doing that for the guy in the wheelchair, which Scott mentions in his summary.

House (during sugery): It’s asystole, paddling’s not going to do anything!
Cuddy: it’s fine v-fib blah blah..

For the show to not only recognise that defibbing is not the way to treat flatlines, but to explicitly *say* so, I think the medicine deserves an A just for that.

And for the record, I totally agree with TC – don’t get me started on how God is at best, an absent bully and at worst, an evil, malicious b*stard.
And btw, was it asystole? Because Cuddy shocked her back so it was presumably v-fib but it certainly looked like asystole.. Maybe that was the point, I don’t know..

To Flyndaran:
“House loudly claims to be an atheist, but he isn’t.
He quite obviously hates god and you can’t hate something that doesn’t exist. He provokes the religious in an attempt to be shown the way to believing. It’s irritating.”

It’s time to make another distinction: that between atheism and antitheism. I’m an atheist, AND an antitheist, and I see House as the same. Antitheism is objection to religion in general. I not only disbelieve in a “higher power,” but I also object to religion, which I see as an age-old tool of escapism (both of reality and of responsibility) and of control and suppression by those in power of those who choose not to think freely.

I don’t “hate God” and neither does House – he detests the foolish behavior that comes about by belief in God, as do I.

For what it’s worth, I too “poke the religious.” I find their reactions amusing, particularly in adults whom I otherwise find to be intelligent and reasoning. Imagine it – a belief system that requires lack of proof – that actually thrives on it – that forbids testing or any dissent, that promotes ignorance (”faith”) as a virtue. It’s simply laughable. It’d be even more laughable if it wasn’t the cause of most of the problems in the world.

Remember: “God” is the cause of more and bloodier deaths than any other cause in human history.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled program.

Yes. Even so, I do wish they would get the medicine right (because when I *do* spot it it does detract from the episode, sometimes terribly so.) Why make stuff up when there are plenty of plausible conditions out there? Some posters argue it’s drama, but if they’re going to make stuff up, they might as well make up new organs.

One error I did catch: Giving the baby (sorry! fetus!) a paralytic was silly. In an ultrasound if the baby is moving around they wait half-an-hour for it to fall asleep. duh.

He quite obviously hates god and you can’t hate something that doesn’t exist. He provokes the religious in an attempt to be shown the way to believing. It’s irritating.

As a born atheist, I don’t like “his kind” grouped in with me.

Wouldn’t a bladder condition like that of the foetus lead to a severe Oligohydramnion (reduction of fluid in the amniotic sac)?

And wouldn’t one of the first procedures done to a pregnant woman with health problems be the checking for a heartbeat of the foetus via ultrasound, which should have revealed the condition of the amniotic sac and therefore, the distended bladder immediately without all the guesswork?

Just my 2 cents…