Comments on: House — Episode 10 (Season 6): “The Down Low”

By: ecoli

ecoli — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:34:37 +0000

At least from the german wikipedia, I read that sometimes the two colonic arteries (that come from the respective mesenteric arteries) are joined to each other. So maybe Mickey had such an anastomosis that allowed blood from the INFERIOR mesenteric artery to flow across the colonic arteries and the anastomosis into the superior mesenteric artery. Maybe this explains why it was so limited in terms of infarction.

By: Nenad

Nenad — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:26:31 +0000

Wilson: ‘I’m not here for an argument.’
House: ‘No, thats room 10b…’ =D=D=D

House is obviously a Monty Python fan. This is at least the second time he reffered to the MP’s Flying Circus.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:03:10 +0000

Quit whining you losers. None of you are real doctors quit thinking that wikipedia is a solution for real medical training. Even if the medicine was a bit atypical you losers need to stop being so critical. It’s a DRAMA which means they dramatize things. Understand just because it’s on a medical drama does not mean it has to be a text book example of that disease. Maybe Micky just had a weird case idk i’m not a doctor and neither are any of you.

By: Schlyne

Schlyne — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:17:01 +0000

darn. I just had surgery to fix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_canal_dehiscence. I checked this site to see if it was the diagnosis about 5 minutes in. bummer. too bad to see the final medical solution was a loose fit.

By: CJ Standish

CJ Standish — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:54:21 +0000

One of the problems in the US concerning patients who present in the emergency room is no access to medical history. In countries where electronic charts are the norm, this info can be called up.

So they don’t always know truly why a patient is taking a particular medication or what all his other conditions are.

Beta-blockers for stress? That’s what the patient says.

Anyway, there actually have been studies done on the effects of beta-blockers reducing stress and it was found that in fact they do, and they improve problem-solving and test-taking performance USING NORMAL NONHYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS. (See notes from the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience that was held in Washington DC 2005 or 2006.)

So, actually not such a stretch.

CJ Standish

By: Zhong

Zhong — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:57:35 +0000

I wonder if people do routine MRIs or CTs in America without first doing the biochemistry for pheochromocytomas. In the public system in Australia, you never resort to radiology until you have a positive plasma or serum metanephrine, and you definitely do not randomly image adrenals due to risk of incidentaloma!

By: DJB

DJB — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:57:59 +0000

I must disagree with you, D-r Bulgaria…someone tried to do that to me recently. She got very angry when I would not take the drug, but she wasn’t insane. :)

As a veteran i go to the VA here for healthcare and recently my “primary care provider” tried to put me on an anti-hypertension medication without monitoring it or evaluating my health status at all (the VA has refused to even do a complete physical exam for 3 years). To complicate matters further I am disabled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and had had to wait for my appointment in a crowded area where I did not feel safe, so my blood pressure had spiked. I am unsure if part of the problem is that I have no access to a medical doctor…my “provider” is a nurse practitioner.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:23:13 +0000

Did anyone else catch the feeling that the real gangster had a secret gay love for the informant? I thought that was an obvious parallel with the fake gay relationship between House and Wilson.

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:10:24 +0000

more of soap drama and pathetic medical drama…..

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:56:11 +0000

Miss January,

What evidence do you to assert this? Is there an official release?