House Challenge — Week 10

December 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Medicine, TV

A fairly low scoring week, but most of the players gained at least one point.

Louwrens has this week’s high score with 9 points.

Overall, Sable Hope takes the lead to herself at 38 points. Ash is in second with 34 points, and JockM right behind at 32 points. The Erskine holds fourth with 27 points, and Dogma-Central and Harvey are in fifth with 25 points.

Full scores are available here..

10 Responses to “ House Challenge — Week 10 ”

  1. Karl Withakay
    December 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    This may be the first time anyone’s ever said this, hooray for Guillain-Barre!

  2. Eric TF Bat
    December 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    I remain confident of winning the coveted bottom position by season’s end. I’ve had a look at the original predictions by the five others who still share the zero-point sweet spot with me, and they’re all boringly plausible. I’m frankly amazed that Tammy’s chronic lymphocytic leukemia caused by Agent Orange hasn’t shown up yet, for example. But I’m confident the only way the Spon Plague or the Dreaded Lurgi will appear on House is if Stephen Fry shows up for a guest spot, and what are the chances of that?

  3. yarnpiggy
    December 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am

    I’m back to my normal zero-points routine…last week really ruined my campaign to beat Eric. :-)

  4. Corien
    December 4th, 2008 at 3:33 am

    Finally a good House episode, AND finally some points ;)
    Indeed yay for Guillan-Barré.
    Corien 5 - 1 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 1 – 0 – 6 >> 13

  5. Harvey
    December 4th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    “Heavy metal poisoning” is the gift that keeps on giving. It is Season 5’s Lupus and Vasculitis.

  6. Hart
    December 4th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    Eric TF Bat, I resent that. My predictions are absolutely ridiculous and you know it.

  7. Jeff R.
    December 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Huh. When you didn’t even talk about the ‘medicine’ in the fake case I thought it wouldn’t end up counting, but it looks like it did. Glad to have the points, though…

  8. Scott
    December 4th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
    Official Comment

    I figured it was only fair to treat it as a clinic patient in terms of scoring; after all, Taub and Kutner were trying to come up with legitimate diagnoses. It’s not (entirely) their fault it was a fake patient.

  9. Chaim
    December 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    So are we getting points for being more specific than the show? I got six points this week, I’m assuming for Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (a prion disease) and Cadmium poisoning (heavy metal poisoning).

    Hooray for getting on the board!

  10. Scott
    December 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
    Official Comment

    1 for Prion disease (you listed two), and 5 for Heavy Metal Poisoning (which Cadmium counts as) since they treated it (though incorrectly for cadmium as chelation is not recommended).

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