Comments on: House – episode 10

By: Cedric

Cedric — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:33:51 +0000

The above website says that, in the US, one to seven cases of rabies in humans is reported per year, and that bats are the most common carriers of rabies. fwiw, Bat droppings can cause a fungal disease, histoplasmosis, but this is rare. I wasn’t sure if it was mentioned in the episode.

In this ep, House specifically mentions he does not trust lab techs when Foreman did one of the biopsies.

I notice that this series doesn’t fully explain anyone’s backgrounds, so, IMO, it makes sense that we’re not told *why* Foreman doesn’t like homeless people. He may have grown up in the streets, but his tastes in clothing show he doesn’t see himself as part of it.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:44:48 +0000

In the past couple of decades, the most common way to acquire human rabies in the U.S. has been from bats. Most of the other cases have been from being bitten in countries where dog rabies is considerably more common. Doesn’t mean it’s common to get rabies from bats; people bitten by other animals in the U.S. generally know they’ve been bitten and get treatment, but may overlook a bat bite. So far there have been six survivors of symptomatic rabies, and at least one case of what appears to be human abortive rabies.

By: Anahita

Anahita — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:00:18 +0000

i am an iranian medical student,and whenever i watch this movie,it reminds me that i still know nothing.

By: Billy Trouson

Billy Trouson — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:19:08 +0000

Yeah I know this is way after the fact but I’ve been going through the first season of House (and your rewviews in turn) and I had a question.

In the beginning Wilson is consulting Foreman about the homeless woman and it seems like Foreman is running the show. I get that he’s a Neurologist and he was asking for a Neurological opinion but Wilson is the head of the Dept. of Oncology and Foreman works for House who heads Diagnostics.. I don’t think Foreman has any real title or rank that we’re aware of…isn’t the hierarchy at work here a little wonky? I mean even if Wilson is seeking Foreman’s expert opinion Foreman can’t order a department head to discharge a patient, right? He was essentially pulling rank on Wilson which is why Wilson ran to House to beg him to take the case.

And just to add my own two cents.. I get that the team wouldn’t be running all their own tests but I suspect the writers have them doing as such so A. They don’t have to introduce a new specialist every week that would be an unecessary, throwaway character, and B. that’s usually when the team has their own character convos that reveal info and moves the soap opera along. A bit of creative license is all. Same way all tests on the show can be run within 30 mins.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:25:35 +0000

Reading from a report about the Milwaukee protocol, only a few months before this episode was released.

A female patient was diagnosed with rabies. They induced a coma in order to protect the brain. The also gave a cocktail o of drugs including ketamine, midazolam, ribavirin and amantadine. She showed signs of the immune system being responsive after six days. She spent 31 days in hospital after which she was declared virus free.

Couldn’t this treatment be used, or was it diagnosed too late?

By: Katia

Katia — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:38:07 +0000

I feel like the team runs the tests themselves because they only ever have one patient at a time, and they’d get bored if they just waited for tests to be done by other people. Somehow they have managed to train themselves to be radiologists and neurosurgeons and tab techs and things. :P

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:55:38 +0000

The serotonin syndrome seemed a problem to me. Unless I missed it, wasn’t the patient’s only serotonergic drug the paroxetine, which had been started at the time of admission? I had been under the impression that 1) antidepressants take weeks to have any effect and 2) serotonin syndrome occurs only when a patient is on more than one drug that increases synaptic levels of serotonin, and is still uncommon in those cases.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:05:48 +0000

I’m not a cop, but I know that whenever the cops use their taser, it either stores the information or transmits it whenever its used. Perhaps a few years ago when it aired they didn’t do that, but still, for a cop to lie to the paramedics, the hospital, and on his report, its not a good career move especially if he can easily be caught.

By: epthorn

epthorn — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:49:16 +0000

“Wow. I’m so surprised that on this “debunking” page, no one has clued into the fact that it is extremely rare to contract rabies from bats. In the past 50 years in the US there have only been 40 cases of humans contracting rabies from bats…”

“Extremely rare” is a prerequisite to be turned into a House episode.

I thought the rabies diagnosis was late in coming, considering the photophobia and hydrophobia…

By: roy

roy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:46 +0000

Viva bats, I say. They do a lot more good than harm. In (Houston?) there was a huge bat eradication after one possible bat rabies death. The eradication probably caused a number of insect borne infections.