Comments on: House — Episode 3 (Season 5): “Adverse Events”

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:59:19 +0000

And what caused turning red around temples? I didn’t understand.

By: kwh

kwh — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:19:20 +0000

This was a little bit of a dull episode for me; there was nothing particularly interesting about the PotW or the medical mystery that led to his “condition.” But the bezoar twist alarmed me just a bit. I’ve been on strong antacids for years; first Prilosec OTC and now Nexium, with the infrequent Chewy Rolaids as needed. Should I also be concerned about a bezoar? I mean, how common are they? What sort of complications can result if they’re not removed? I take several medications daily (not as “trial” drugs) and I’m wondering if half of them are disappearing inside some huge, disgusting lump of old food particles in my stomach.

I really liked the Lucas/House scenes, but the Lucas/Cuddy scenes were just… creepy. I can’t imagine that if her character existed IRL that she would give him 2 seconds’ thought.

Also, it’s odd that Chase won’t “let” Cameron get a cat, when it’s later established at the end of the same season right before his bachelor party that he will be able to “bond” with Karamel the Stripper because they both own cats. (Or maybe it was just something that House’s Amber-hallucination throws out there for no good reason that wasn’t even true.)

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By: Gal

Gal — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:18:01 +0000

While you can discuss the type of visual agnosia affecting the painter in the first scene, it can not be aphasia. Aphasia is a speech deficit. Nothing to do with perception or gesture control.
But there might be a bit of apraxia (gesture deficit) mingled in there.
Later on, he suffers from prosopagnosia, a deficit in face recognition.

By: trlkly

trlkly — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:40:42 +0000

JimmyP: Usually when this sort of thing happens, it’s a contract thing. Either the actors wanted to leave, but couldn’t, and thus negotiated as little screen time as possible, or they wanted more money for their work, and the show decided not to pay for it. But they still enforced the contract, meaning they have to have minimal appearances.

By: Balok

Balok — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:24:23 +0000

Due to my living in a furrin’ country, I’m only just now seeing season 5 of House. I am not a doctor (nor do I play one on TV), but I respectfully disagree with Scott’s analysis. The agnosia (etc.) symptoms were a MacGuffin — it could have been any random set of dramatically interesting symptoms. The medical mystery was why do the symptoms keep appearing and disappearing, seemingly at random? Thus, the solution didn’t really depend on the symptoms themselves, but on the *real* symptom. I have to admit that my initial guess was that it was a fat-soluble chemical being released into the body as the patient lost weight. Close, but no cigar.

By: Skooma

Skooma — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:18:08 +0000

That’s one big bezoar. It’s the size of a pear.

For some reason I still remember goat bezoars being the panacea for most poisons in Harry Potter.

By: I cuddle you

I cuddle you — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:56:47 +0000

Lets see,

i know some people love to get involved on the real medicine and stuff, some conclusions and the big errors, …

i forgot about the medicine -not that i tracked it all- long a go

now i seek only the emotional side of it,

Taub was superb, for those who apparently don’t remember the detail, he CHEATED on his wife, therefore any move his wife does to please him get him to be guilty, very guilty.. now they’ll talk, nice

Cuddy/Lisa Edelstein flirting was badass, i mean you have many beauties in the show, but none posses that fresh smile, mixing mature and soft woman, damn they did it right this time

By: Frankiesaysrelax

Frankiesaysrelax — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:47:03 +0000

Lilorfnannie,

I would totally disagree!! Just how young is Lucas supposed to be?? And how old are you placing Cuddy at, sheesh!!

Cuddy seems no more than early 40s to me, and the PI mid to late 30s. He certainly cant be any younger, if we are to believe he knows anything about his trade and has any experience. I agree he has a bit of a babyface but thats just how some people are. I would place no more than TEN years between the two characters ages to me, at the most.

And geez…why so harsh on Cuddy?? Older guys go for the hot young thing all the time, whats wrong with seeing her with a younger man? and as I’ve already said, the PI is not that much younger than her (by my calculations at least).

By: Carega

Carega — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:08:22 +0000

I have a few questions:
Are patients able to speak so freely after they had a tracheotomy?
Is it normal to leave the wounds of the tracheotomy without any protection? (The patient had a scar (or a hole?) in his throat)

I really like your medical reviews though I liked the house-cuddy-PI part. I miss Cameron and Wilson…