Comments on: House — Episode 4 (Season 5): “Birthmarks”

By: ecoli

ecoli — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:59:13 +0000

Oops, I forgot the name and e-mail address in the CT comment. Sorry, Scott

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:57:39 +0000

@petrino,
maybe because a CT scanner cannot properly tell what something “weird” is, resulting in too many false positives/negatives.

By: ecoli

ecoli — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:38:54 +0000

How did the nails end up in the middle brain (where most centers of the reward system and also of possible “addiction centers” are)? What caused the vomiting? Did another nail go to the brainstem?
Yes, from what I know there are such thing(s) that can be referred as to “addiction center(s)”, they are involved in learning, reward and apparently schizophrenia, but curing addiction with a “simple surgery” would still fall squarely under “disease does not justify the treatment” – way too many risks and side-effects, I’d rather say.

By: petrino

petrino — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:46:19 +0000

” scanners don’t beep when something weird shows up.”
why dont they? they should.

By: Kit Wayne

Kit Wayne — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:53:09 +0000

Though the Statue is some sort of Buddha (laughing Buddha),he is not the actual Buddha , in fact the deity is called Budai .

By: Alok

Alok — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:13:05 +0000

House: Anybody has Taub’s pager number?
Thirteen: Whats up?
House: Maybe give him a call. He touches that switch on the MRI and she is dead.

We dont need to switch on the MRI…..the magnet is always ON….this is really silly

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:28:04 +0000

Just watched this episode for the first time. I have no medical background, but here are two thoughts.

1. When House said “licorice root”, i figured the Chinese doctors were using traditional herbal medicine to strengthen her Spleen, as an adjunct to whatever Western treatments they’d used. (Certainly they would not have used herbals as a primary treatment for SARS in China! Unless she had actually gone back a century in time.)

2. When Kutner said “pleasure center”, i immediately thought “nucleus accumbens”; i seem to remember from a psych class that lesions to that area might affect addictive behaviors in rodents. (Wrong structure?) That might offer an explanation for her behavior, but removing the pins wouldn’t fix the damage.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:01:33 +0000

Physics nitpick: at the range at which Nicole is holding the magnet, it wouldn’t have caused appreciable force on the nails in her brain. Magnetic field strength falls off very fast with distance (inverse cube).

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:35:05 +0000

Anybody got a video of the part where House clips a part of his dad’s ear and is then in a different room with Wilson? Wilson says something like “Are you just going to act like a child and keep repeating-”
House: “Admit it admit it admit it admit it admit it admit it”

By: paul niake

paul niake — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:38:47 +0000

Scrubs just don’t last like they used to. I bought a pack the other day that were trash in 2 months.