Comments on: House — Episode 2 (Season 5): “Not Cancer”

By: ecoli

ecoli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:57:37 +0000

JeffH,
certainly not. A cardiac arrest? A clot to the brainstem (it also controls the hearth)? Mitochondrial diseases?? There’s a LOOOONG list, even for a non-doctor.

By: JeffH

JeffH — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:03:42 +0000

Thirteen said: “nothing causes simultaneous brain and heart problems“. Is this true?

By: Dan G

Dan G — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:27:44 +0000

Lurker, first time poster- I’m in the process of devouring house season by season- so far, HUGELY disappointed by this one and the last one. How is it even possible that one show can range from the genius piece of writing that was “Three Stories” to this BS!? I’m no med student or anything, but this was just crazy. And the new team are basically just arrogant and annoying. This makes me sad. Please, oh please improve soon…

Love this site though, thanks!!

By: Mahima T.

Mahima T. — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:41:31 +0000

This episode just came out here in Belgium, and unlike most people posting here, I enjoyed it. Sure the medicine was silly, but I really enjoyed the drama bits.

The PI is a neat character, someone who understands House and can tell it like it is, but isn’t trying to suck up. He’s cute and quirky, sometimes getting the job done with impressive throughness, and other times failing at something simple like following the girl, or his maitience disgise. I would be interested in this spinoff someone mentioned in the comments. Plus I have a thing for Argyle print.

The little bit with Wilson I enjoyed, he’s staying strong, not gonna cave in for House.

By: ThatGuy

ThatGuy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:34:15 +0000

While the medical side of the episode had serious problems, there is one great thing about this episode: the always awesome Felicia Day. That alone made it enjoyable for me.

By: Roehamster

Roehamster — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:50:55 +0000

I’m a disappointed Brit turning up late to this cocktail party of abuse. All of the best snacks are gone and there’s only a couple of warm beers left for me to snaffle.

I called this show as having ‘jumped the shark’ at the end of Season Four.

Never been sorrier to have been proved right about anything. Over here, the show has jumped from being the top-rating draw on a low-rating terrestrial channel to one that’s being promoted to death on pay-tv.

The most charitable explanation for this mess is that the show and everyone connected with it is staying on until they reach a hundred episodes.

House has turned from curmudgeon to monster. Medicine from a life-saving art to a sadistic form of licensed torture.

I don’t have the heart to skip ahead and read reviews and spoilers for the episodes that have not yet been broadcast here.

By: CCU

CCU — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:09:13 +0000

There is a rare condition to shock a flatline.

Sometime the fibrilation is very small e.g. obese people

And in case of a therapy resistant asystolie we shock sometimes…

i work on/at a NICU in Munich/Bavaria

By: LaserLiza16

LaserLiza16 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:19:28 +0000

Am I the only one who thought the character of Lucas was really #$^%ing annoying? I have now watched much more of the season and am THRILLED that he has disappeared. Anyone else agree?

By: Narcissus

Narcissus — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:28:35 +0000

Sorry, bad English.Scott, this is a great site. I keep commng back here after every episode.

By: Narcissus

Narcissus — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:26:55 +0000

Cancerous stem cells do not act in the way shown in the episode even in any remote possibility.Cancer stem cells have give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample. They are responsible for metastasis and recurrence.