Comments on: House – episode 13

By: Cedric

Cedric — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:01:07 +0000

I’d *still* like to know why the hospital lets everyone inside the room and why the testing rooms are always dark! :D

Fun series, although this is something like the third ep where the *hospital* was the cause of the patient nearly or definitely dying!

By: Wveth

Wveth — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:59:10 +0000

Anyone who says House is a POS series simply has no or very little knowledge of what good screenwriting and dialogue is.

No, the medicine isn’t always right, and yeah, that sucks. I think it’s silly that they don’t do enough research to make it -perfect- and they should be ashamed.

But the show itself is just phenomenally put together, especially when you look at the series as a whole.

By: Piotr

Piotr — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:11:00 +0000

Thalidomide caused fetal limbs to degenerate because it blocked the blood vessels; so the limbs degenerated because of oxygen deprivation. As far as I’m concerned, it works the same in certain forms of leprosy, by blocking the blood vessels feeding the parts of skin affected by the disease, so they degenerate and die, and the mycobacteria with them…

By: Big big House fan

Big big House fan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:13:44 +0000

I love this show (and Baba O’Reilly by The Who), but i also like reading these bloopers too!

It’s not a medical show, it’s about a bloke who can’t relate to other people – just like my hubby…

Can’t wait for him and Cuddy to get together – now i’m just being soppy…

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:38:39 +0000

Just to be as nitpicky as possible, when House looks through the scope at the suspected insulation, those are most certainly not animal hairs he’s looking at. There is no scale pattern at all, seemingly. The medulla is also discontinuous which is not very common in animals, and it is also much too small; the medulla looks more like a human’s. Animal medulla are usually 1/2 to 2/3 the overall width of the hair.

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:09:22 +0000

@ Sid and others about thalidomide – It is used in one of the complications of Leprosy called Erythema Nodosum Leprosum, an inflammatory reaction to dying lepra bacilli in the system. It is no more recommended in the treatment of such reactions. (See http://www.who.int/lep/research/thalidomide/en/index.html ). Steroids are used instead.

By: Re: philantropist

Re: philantropist — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:23:01 +0000

@ philantropist :
Anthrax isn’t contagious. At all. Its only danger is that when you inhale it and it infects your lungs, survival is only about %10. So Dr. Chase was correct in wearing the mask to take the sample, and leaving it off the rest of the time.

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:51:25 +0000

Nobody said they cured their leprosy with a short round of antibiotics, a cure takes months or years. However, a patient stops being contagious as soon as he/she starts multi drug therapy. Furthermore, if those who have been in contact with the infected receive even one dose of rifampicin they have up to 75% less chance of getting infected themselves. Combine this with the fact that 95% of the population is naturally immune to the disease and you can see that this really isn’t a problematic disease (if diagnosed correctly) in the developed world. The only problem is, since the disease presents itself with very few distinct symptoms initially, by the time you diagnose it correctly irreversible neurological damage can occur.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:11:42 +0000

re: the anthrax – I assumed the doctors received Anthrax vaccines as soon as the diagnosis was made. I would still expect them to exercise precautions, but their lack of terror of contracting the disease would make more sense if they’d already been vaccinated.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:36:04 +0000

I disagree with the C on the sub plot. I thought the sub plot was unexpected and different. I mean, of all things who was expecting Chase’s dad to show up? I think this episode was also a big part in the whole show because, in the first season we are learning more about all of the doctors,and I think this was a very important episode in that process, because we learned about Chase’s past.