Comments on: House — Episode 4 (Season 6): “Instant Karma”

By: Psychostician

Psychostician — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:30:31 +0000

About Cameron pronoucing ‘Acities’, I think its more realistic.

Anyone who knows me knows I can’t pronouce things over 4 letters the right way, but I like the way I pronouce them and continue to do so.

Maybe Cameron is like me.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:56:33 +0000

Is it me or was the MD at the beginning treated for C. diff with IV antibiotics? Even if you were dumb enough to treat for C. diff in this case, who would use IV antibiotics for C. diff?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:23:18 +0000

M&M stands for morbidity and mortality (I think).

By: Neuroimage

Neuroimage — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:56:48 +0000

Did anyone notice that House calls for “intracranial electrodes” to be applied to this kid to check his seizure activity? That’s not an EEG, that’s brain surgery. Intracranial electrodes require electrodes to be placed on the brain surface and are only used when the skull needs to be opened up for epilepsy surgery or similar reasons. What they should have and did use was an EEG, as you can see from the electrodes taped to his head when he goes in for the Ryobi intervention. The equipment use was fine, although you’re only going to catch a grand mal seizure (which should be pretty obvious on its own) with that few electrodes, unless by coincidence the seizure starts directly under his forehead, but the terminology was not even close.

By: Roehamster

Roehamster — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:49:07 +0000

Hey ! It’s like the old team is back together again !

If we’re following what the shark did after he had finished jumping over House, MD, the answer appears that he converted to Christianity and became a Televangelist. Then turned his sharky talents to writing for the show.

This one is the parable of the rich man who thought that Karma meant he could lose his wealth and save his dying son. The “Instant Karma” of the show’s title. Foolish man loses both the son and the wealth that could have provided some kind of cushion to his grief. Buddhists bad.

Hugh, America must be the world’s most brilliant country if you have been offered permission to stay in it – just for signing up for four more years of this.

By: Mia

Mia — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:01:24 +0000

About the short stock: I suspect House was simply lying about having done it. If so, there’s no need to speculate about its ethics or if it’s going to come back and bite him in the ass; he was simply messing with Wilson (who was telling him he wasn’t really a jerk after all — i.e., House was trying to convince Wilson he was a jerk).

I could, of course, be wrong about this. However, there’s been no indication before that I know of that House has any familiarity with the stock market.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:13:20 +0000

I thought the episode wasn’t too bad – a standard House episode, if you will. My issue with it though was the ending. Way, way, waaaay too predictable, and thus boring.

As harsh as this sounds, if the ending had been that the father signs away his fortunes and then the kids dies (or even just the kid dying would have been “good”), I would’ve liked it much better due to it being a change from the typical “patient is saved and everyone is happy” ending.

By: MrBuddwing

MrBuddwing — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:39:58 +0000

Had to wait for the episode to show up on Hulu.com to see it.

Unlike Dr. Scott, I didn’t find the episode “slight” – I thought it was pretty intense.

Interesting how, at the very end, the father looks perfectly happy after his son is cured, even though he’s plowed his entire financial empire into the ground – I guess he felt his karma did change. I’d like to think of it as an affirmation of life over money, but still …

Also had to chuckle over the way House referenced “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

By: tikva

tikva — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:01:30 +0000

I don’t know how intense the questioning gets at an M&M, but I figured it didn’t matter. This was a “Tell-Tale Heart” kind of situation, where even if no one was looking for a murderer, Chase and Foreman were going to be paranoid about being accused. Maybe someone would ask questions or maybe everyone would just sleep through the whole presentation, but guilt is going to mess with Chase and Foreman’s heads regardless.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:03:01 +0000

About that hand drill. Now I’ve seen some pictures of hand held medical drills, but a hand drill to the head? I understand that you can use a drill bit with a geometry that will cut only hard substances and not soft ones. But call me crazy, I don’t think that its a good idea to have a hand held drill making holes in someones head. Please tell me that in the real world there are precision drills mounted on locking gimbals or some kind of harness so a patent doesn’t have to worry how many cups of coffee their surgeon drank that day.