Comments on: House – Episode 18 (Season Three): “Airborne”

By: Artem

Artem — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:09:26 +0000

Don’t You think that the pressure in the airplane is NOT low and that flying on a less altitude would be of any help?

By: Djilll

Djilll — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:43:46 +0000

PS: Cocaine is an international word: the korean could had answer the question if house ask him knowing that his life was to end. Well everybody lies and propably facing jail to life unless recreational use of it?

By: Djilll

Djilll — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:34:57 +0000

Smuggling Cocaine out singapor does not make sens at all. It s propably cheaper and more available in USA.
The singaporian laws are as well pretty hard on drugs: Death penalty even for “small” amount of marijuana!

Then does all the symptoms or missing ones really match a cocaine intoxication?

And even so, before opening the belly: rectum should not be check?

I just enjoy watching again the serie with a more critical eye since i found your website. nice work!

By: Zabby

Zabby — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:51:35 +0000

I have to agree with Scott on this one. I’m still in High School, but my sister’s a doctor in England. She complains to me about House all the time, but we still watch it. We compare notes to Scott’s work here.

It does sound like you are complaining about the episode, not his work here.

I want to thank Scott for his wonderful work here. Thank you.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:14:21 +0000

Exactly what “gaffe in [my] medical review” are you referring to?

You seem to be complaining about the episode itself, rather than my review per se.

While your goal of public education is laudable, you’re preaching to the choir here as I and the majority of my readers are adamant supports of vaccination programs — as any but the most cursory of glances at this blog would reveal.

By: Ginger, APRN, FNP, CIC, COHN-S

Ginger, APRN, FNP, CIC, COHN-S — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:48:10 +0000

Better 2 years late commenting than letting such a gaffe in your medical review go unaddressed.

Meningococcal meningitis is droplet spread, not airborne. It has at least a 2 day incubation period. And I can’t imagine psychosomatic petechial or purpuric rashes would be seen (is there even a documented case of such an event?). It only takes a little pressure on the ‘red blotch’ to determine if it is petechial or purpuric.

Were these travel companions all together 48 or more hours earlier in close face to face contact?

Episodes such as this one serve to perpetuate misinformation about the spread (or not) of infectious disease. If only the public was as concerned about vaccine preventable disease when it came to making vaccine decisions as they often are concerned about potential imaginary epidemic risks.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:46:06 +0000

Flyndaran: That you know of!

By: Flyndaran

Flyndaran — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:42:21 +0000

Weird that so many random people are prone to psychosomatic disorders.
I have severe anxiety but have never had any “false” physical symptoms.

By: LaserLiza16

LaserLiza16 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:11:09 +0000

I love the way the tree random passengers accidentally sound like the people they are imitating. As House said,”You need to agree with everything I say, you need to disagree with everything I say, and you need to be morally outraged at everything I say.” And they did it without even realizing!

By: Hello

Hello — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:11:44 +0000

Actually they didn’t leave from Indonesia, they left from Singapore. Cuddy mentioned that “with a credit card and a hotel room [peng] could get anything he wants”