Comments on: House – episode 16

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:19:49 +0000

Chase became an asshole so the writers could make it easier for people to swallow that he was working for Vogler.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:45:05 +0000

My eyes are green and my husband’s eyes are dark brown, but our son has (deep) blue eyes.

So Scott, I think your comment is not correct.

quote:
So yes, if you marry a blue-eyed man, all your children will have brown eyes, but you may have several blue-eyed grandchildren.

(though my husband’s eyes are really dark brown and so are his parents;s, blue eyes do run in his family (grandmother and aunt))

By: ashwini88

ashwini88 — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:57:54 +0000

about the warfarin…

Most often it’s given orally. In this case, I don’t think there’s any indication for it to be IV (i.e. poor gut absorption?).

Also, I’m not sure that warfarin-induced skin necrosis (which is due to too much clotting) is a dose-related side effect (it’s a rare side effect caused by inhibition of protein C synthesis), so I don’t think the issue is a possible warfarin overdose. But, giving heparin might prevent this. (btw, this is not the actual reason you bridge warfarin therapy with heparin first…)

By: Florence

Florence — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:56:40 +0000

The part about the eye color really bothered me, and considering how most people learn that brown eye color is dominant in high school, it also bothered me that the patient didn’t question it. Blue and green eyes are the result of recessive genes, and brown dominant. So two brown eyed parents could produce blue and green eyed children, as long as both had a blue or green eyed ancestor somewhere in the past generations. And since the majority of Latino people are actually Mestizo, tracing back to a comingling of Spaniards, Native South and Central Americans and Africans, it’s very likely that there’ve been some blue and green eyed members of the family tree. There are even naturally blond and red-haired Latinos.

It seemed sloppy, like if House had just reversed the eye colors, pointed out that she and her husband had blue eyes yet some children had brown, or mentioned some other dominant trait in the children that neither parent had, like a cleft chin or widow’s peak hairline, that subplot would have worked for me.

By: Diseraph

Diseraph — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:04:12 +0000

I found Chase’s issues against American obesity really bad on the writer’s part. It was sudden and had no real impact on character development, nor was explained in his past (i.e. being beaten up by an American fat kid). Also, just because he’s Australian, doesn’t give him the right to judge lifestyle issues in America. I’m Australian and I can honestly say we have just a bad problem here as over there if not worse. The only difference is we don’t have supersize in our fast food restaurants.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:36:06 +0000

I agree with this assessment. Just look at the opening DDX. They suggest the heart attack might be because of her high blood pressure, and Cameron agrees that the hypertension is “likely due to her size.” (Something like that.)

The patient would have been on a cardiac monitor on the way to the hospital, and BP is the #1 vital sign that all EMTs and Paramedics monitor. They would have checked it again when she got to the ER. It would have been checked every time she went to the doctors office. Cameron is sitting there with the patient’s file. Couldn’t she have just looked to see that the patient had hypertension, rather than just guessing that she did?

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:22:11 +0000

Considering that the couple in question was Hispanic, I would actually consider it quite probable that they would have a child with green eyes, as that phenotype isn’t uncommon amongst Hispanics. Blue eyes I don’t see as being as likely – but I don’t think it could necessarily be discounted. No reason why one of them couldn’t have had that allele..

By: Ashtara

Ashtara — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:54:26 +0000

“Oh, and warfarin is a pill, not an injectable drug.”

I don’t know about an injection, but I know it’s available as an IV solution, because I gave it to my father on a weekly basis.

By: Splash112

Splash112 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:48:24 +0000

Hi Scott,

Great blog! Very interesting to read!

If my blue-eyed self and my brown eyed Chinese girlfriend would ever get a baby, I guess chances on a non-brown eyed child would be practically 0%. Not so many blue eye genes going around in China. I guess practically the same for the Hispanic background the husband seems of? I would guess the 11% probability of having kinds with blue eyes is not for him, probably many times smaller and making house’s assessment that he fathered 3 or maximum 4 of their children quite legit.

By: Flyndaran

Flyndaran — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:17:03 +0000

According to many websites it is unlikely but possible for two blue eyed people to have a brown eyed child.
I wonder if any marriages have been destroyed from such occurances.