Comments on: House – Episode 9 (Season 4): “Games”

By: Nadia

Nadia — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:44:38 +0000

ok so my lil sis has more things wrong with her then not. lets see if Dr. House can figure this one out!!!!! She has chromosome disorder the only one in the world. her 13th broke off and reattached to 18th. she has 6 fingers, highly extreme epileptic of all sort, she is blind, and we are not sure if she can hear. she currently has a g-tube, she is fed all of her food through it but right now she is not keeping anything down, her body is not digesting anything but her meds, and even then some of her meds come out as well. her lungs keep collapsing because of mucus and we dont know where it is coming from, so there for she on on oxygen at all times and her heart rate keeps going up above where she is supposed to be. so the main question is how do we fix her????? the Docs are stupid and dont know what is wrong with her and she is back in the hospital and she just got home 2 days ago after being in there for a month. anyone please we are open to ALL suggestions!!!!!!!!!!

By: ecoli

ecoli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:46:31 +0000

AtyEclipse,
not a doctor, but while corticosteroids as immune suppressants can enhance infections (like measles), sometimes the immune system does more damage responding to an infection than the infection itself (it is suspected to happen with HIV), so suppressing it could actually be a good choice. BTW, as far as I know, there’s no legitimate reason to rule out immunosuppression+autoimmune like this, because different autoimmune diseases (or allergies) and different infections require different parts of the immune system that can also sometimes act against each other.

By: AtyEclipse

AtyEclipse — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:45:50 +0000

there are several things I didn’t understand…

1. Is it schistocyte is the ‘bad blood fragments’?
2. What the relationship of corticosteroid and measles?

By: RahulDP

RahulDP — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:58:26 +0000

Correction Pulmonary Emboli orginates from the femoral veins not deep veins of the leg…
thrombi formation does take place in deep veins though.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:38:40 +0000

Heh, I just have to laugh at everyone saying ‘this will happen.. so-and-so will be fired.. this person will fall in love with House..’

Since when have you been able to predict the future? I’ve got no problem with people saying ‘I think this will happen and so-and-so will be fired etc’, it’s when they say that it will happen and don’t seem to realise that they can’t actually see into the future. That’s when I laugh at them.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:14:58 +0000

Just found this post, and don’t have time to read through all the comments, but:

Re: seizures– from my research as someone in the process of being diagnosed with epilepsy, it seems that complex can mean that you lose awareness. Not REALIZING you’re swallowing and tuning the world out for a minute might be considered complex… or if not I can understand why the writers would think it might be. Also, I have simple partial seizures (mainly in response to noise and loud music, ironically enough) and have been warned that if my seizure threshold is assaulted efficiently and often enough there is a chance my seizures might escalate into TC’s.

Obviously this might or might not be true for a case of the measles, but it seemed worth mentioning. And of course, I’m sure not a doctor, just a nursing student undergoing a lot of EEG’s.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:49:21 +0000

Just my thoughts, but is the immune system really ravished by the drugs, or is it more like the deterioration of hygiene, sleep, nutrition etc. and its effects seen in some stratas of society who may or not use drugs, don’t get me started on my stoner neighbour playing Wo’W all night while lending me his WhiteCastle DVD. For example some of the damages seen in Meth users are AFAIK due to an interaction of drugs actions, e.g. nicotine is more enjoyable, teeth are tending to grind, there is something sympathicomimetic going on with your saliva, you start executing stereotypies with the termites under your skin, and social factors, like diet etc.
Effects not seen in other use, I like to think my 5 mg of MPh help to keep the refrigerator stuffed with something at least partially healthy and me away from the next Doener Kebap. ;)
Sorry to ask, but mention of putative immunosuppressive effects of certain substances get my Duesberg (and Mullis) reflexes going, and I’m not talking aneuploidy of cancer cells here… ;)

By: Sulpher Dragon

Sulpher Dragon — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:25:04 +0000

Easily the worst house episode ever.

By: Alex Clarke

Alex Clarke — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:16:53 +0000

I’m a European so we automatically start off by liking the ‘nasty’ character – I’m sorry to see CTB go. She might not have had much depth – none of them do – but she had panache. 13 is just ‘troubled’ or, rather, has been given a fatal disease which is short-hand for ‘troubled’. She’s going to develop into a first rate sob story with attendant pain-in-the-neckitis, mark my words.

Has anyone noticed a general deterioration in the depth of characterisation in this series? House’s eccentricities and quiddities somehow are now just dramatic tics, with no real motive, rather than being symptoms of his physical agony and his addiction. Cutty is no nothing more than a giggling, flirtatious dorm mother while Foreman doesn’t do much but alternately smoulder and sigh at House’s ‘outrageousness’. The only character who seems to have maintained any nuance is Wilson and that’s only because Robert Sean Leonard’s acting is so disingenuously naturalistic that he will undoubtely be fired for being ‘boring’ and replaced with, hmmm, that brimming-eyed nonce, Ethan Hawke.

I must admit, while I did like the reality show-elimination motif of the first nine episodes of Season 4 it suggested that alongside the purging of Foreman, Chase and Cameron, and the change in the show’s tenor, somewhere behind the scenes a major change has taken place and now someone new is calling the shots in the production staff. I wonder who it is and how they got the network to approve this radical retooling of the programmes structure and style?

On a general note, may I also add my voice to those applauding the variety, tone and breadth of your site?

By: Polybus

Polybus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:16:08 +0000

Whilst I agree that the music at the end of the episode is indeed ‘Spirit In The Sky’, I am less certain that it is the version recorded by Norman Greenbaum in 1969.

Instead, I wonder if it might be the 1988 cover version by the British ‘one hit wonder’ group, Doctor and The Medics.