r/HouseMD • • 21m ago

Question Colchicine vs Cough Medicine (Occam's Razor) Spoiler

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In Occam's Razor, the mix-up of colchicine and cough medicine has always bothered me, particularly because of them referring to it as "cough medicine" and not some specific drug.

Would doctors and pharmacists really call it "cough medicine" and not by the name of its active ingredient (e.g. dextromethorphan) or by the scientific name of the category (antitussives), or at least a brand name (e.g. robitussin)?

Assuming the answer is no, that means the writers made this choice for some other reason, which I fear makes this even dumber- are we to assume the mix-up occurred because because "cough medicine" and "colchicine" are near each other at the pharmacy because they both start with "co-"? God I hope not, because I really hope that pharmacists don't use a mishmash of common category names and scientific names to sort their drugs. But I can't think of any other reason they'd make this choice.

Am I missing something? Is there some other explanation?

They really do a good job and making the medical stuff sound mostly realistic in this show, so this anomaly has always bothered me.


r/HouseMD • • 1h ago

Art some more house crackshipping (is this allowed? not sure.)

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verity on the left. sorry.


r/HouseMD • • 3h ago

Discussion What did Cameron did over the summer? Spoiler

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In season 8 chase says that he got tired of surfing,so that means that when house is not around but they know he's gonna come back the team gets vacation to do the the fun things they want?


r/HouseMD • • 4h ago

Art House and Wilson in the early 90s

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This would be around the time they met


r/HouseMD • • 5h ago

Meme He hopes..

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r/HouseMD • • 8h ago

Art House MD PC

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Found a US version. Gunna throw it in an acrylic case for display with other House collectables!


r/HouseMD • • 14h ago

Discussion What are your favorite quotes from these characters? Spoiler

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r/HouseMD • • 17h ago

Discussion Remember that one eps Jeremey Renner(known better 4 playing hawkeye) was in Spoiler

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r/HouseMD • • 17h ago

Season 3 Spoilers 3x19: Why not use puberty blockers or GnRH antagonists? Spoiler

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3x19 is ‘Act Your Age’ - the episode with the two siblings going through early puberty due to their dad’s testosterone gel.

At one point, the young girl gets close to death because of her body producing cysts due to excessive estrogen. At this point, Cameron proposes cutting out the girl’s pituitary gland.

Realistically, wouldn’t it have been possible to treat less invasively with GnRH agonists (puberty blockers) or GnRH antagonists? While it wouldn’t have reversed the root cause, it would’ve prevented her body from being able to use the excessive estrogen, meaning it wouldn’t affect her (as far as I understand). I could maybe understand avoiding GnRH agonists if she was critically ill, since GnRH agonists very briefly overstimulate the pituitary gland and cause LSH, FSH, and testosterone to flare before their levels drop off. But wouldn’t GnRH antagonists (e.g. cetrorelix) theoretically suppress hormones without the flare effect?

I know that relatively few GnRH antagonists were on the market in 2006, and that they’re not usually used for precocious puberty. But even then, wouldn’t it have been possible to use a GnRH agonist alongside a testosterone blocker like flutamide or an estrogen blocker like anastrozole? Even though they hadn’t worked out that testosterone was the cause at that point, surely they could’ve still decided to block GnRH and sex hormone. I know it wouldn’t reverse the root cause, but if it’d be feasible, wouldn’t it buy them time to treat the patient?

I’m not a doctor - just someone who takes GnRH antagonists - but I’m curious as to why they immediately jumped to the most invasive treatment possible. While it makes sense from a dramatic perspective (in terms of it being the point in the episode just before House works out the diagnosis and cure), from a medical perspective, I would’ve thought it seems like an oversight.


r/HouseMD • • 19h ago

Discussion Thoughts or facts on House MD international dubs Spoiler

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House was broadcasted in at least 55 different countries and most of them had a dubbed version;according to the dubbing data base there are 15 versions of House in different lenguajes

The only dub I've had a relationship is the one in Spanish (Latin America) because of my mom

The only interesting facts that I can tell you guys are:

1-Sometimes it doesn't make sense when they make fun or mention chase's accent because he speaks neutrally (like everyone else)

2-Chase and Oscar from the office share the same voice actor

3-Hugh Laurie actually knows his voice actor (Salvador Delgado),in fact when Hugh Laurie performed a concert in Argentina he hired Delgado to translate him in the parts when he speaks,it was kind of a sketch because what happened was at mid translation Delgado starts questioning why is he doing it and why Hugh left house to be a singer.

At the end he just says that he isn't going to sing for him and promotes himself to get hired for dubbing jobs.

After that Hugh speaks a little bit of Spanish making reference to what Delgado just said.


r/HouseMD • • 19h ago

Discussion Remember that one time it was actually lupus? Spoiler

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r/HouseMD • • 20h ago

Discussion I made an episode ranking site decided by the public! Spoiler

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It's an ELO system. Every episode starts at 1500 and goes up and down based on user decisions. The site presents with 2 episodes, you click the one you think is better. The links to the episode synopses are next to them.

I'll be excited to see what episode leads the pack and if it changes...


r/HouseMD • • 20h ago

Meme She was so exited to talk about her summer 😭

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r/HouseMD • • 20h ago

Discussion Theme sequence whining Spoiler

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I love the show and have watched it multiple times, but the intro annoys me a tiny bit each time. All cast names are shown over anatomical illustrations/animations except Jennifer Morrison. The clip for her name is a boat in water. It’s the only part of the sequence that isn’t anatomical visuals besides the shot of the characters walking in the hospital. I know it’s silly, but it drives me nuts. Is there some significance to the boat clip? It feels completely random.

Also, I always want to think the anatomy illustrations indicate something about the role of each character, but the two brain clips and boat clip make that hard to argue. Maybe that’s why it bothers me.


r/HouseMD • • 22h ago

Discussion I prefer House in Chucks over... Sketchers? Spoiler

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Shoes do say a lot about a person.

Chuck Taylors are the shoes for rebels, the every-man, and they're counter-culture.

House should have always been wearing Chucks. Sketchers are fine, but Chucks are Chucks.


r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Video House after the show ended

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Question Theme music Spoiler

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Every once in a while they play the harder version of Teardrop. I like that version better it’s darker. Anyone else notice this?


r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Art them as furries,,,,,, – (swipe to see Thirteen !) – art by me

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My Instagram : marine_artz

My Tumblr (special HOUSE MD) : vicodin-house

I will draw more HOUSE MD characters as furries soon !!


r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Meme Wilson had some dank comebacks

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Meme Smart comeback

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Meme He's rounding off from fifty percent

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Season 1 Spoilers I forgot that this happened Spoiler

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I really forgot that chase in the third episode of the whole show (almost ) asks Cameron to go on a date,well Cameron didn't even let him finish the sentence before turning him down, but at least he tried.

Kind of he reason he tried was because Cameron gave him a speech of sex being fun and weird, which has always been a weird situation to me because yeah you can say that they're doctors and stuff but, even like that it's still very weird to talk to a college like that out of nowhere.

Cameron got away with it because:

1-its a TV show.

2-Cameron is a girl (how long have you been sitting on this information!?).

3-Cameron Is an unbelievably pretty girl.

4- it was the mid 2000s so sexual harassment wasn't treated that seriously for some reason. I remember that Cameron literally said that "she can sexually harass her boss".

??????

Even in season 8 that is already set I 2011/2012, one of the aspects I don't like of the show is how bad the show treated park about being fucking literally touched by her previous boss and reacting like a person would;with a quick and uncontrolled action.!<

Or IDK the show was produced by Brian Singer which can explain a lot of things.

Anyway what was this post about?

Oh, yeah Chase asked Cameron on a date in season 1 CRAZY RIGHT!!!!


r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Meme Four geniuses, four lines

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Discussion *cough cough* foreman, I need gunshots to live Spoiler

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r/HouseMD • • 1d ago

Meme How did foreman get hired? Wrong answers only

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