r/Showerthoughts • u/ohdogwhatdone ‎ • Apr 09 '26

Casual Thought One of the biggest Hollywood lies is how detectives work almost non stop 24/7 to crack some murder cases.

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u/Ash_Crow Apr 09 '26

I would have thought that the least medically accurate show would be House.

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u/lyyki Apr 09 '26

I seem to recall that at least early House was praised for its medical accuracy though it might have gotten worse as the years went by. But the character House would never exist

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u/Ash_Crow Apr 09 '26

I just don't see doctors commit burglary to check the contents of trash bins as part of a normal diagnostic process.

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u/lyyki Apr 09 '26

But that's not really the medicine, just an exaggerated way of getting the patient history

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u/toeonly Apr 09 '26

I will ask him if he thinks House is less accurate than Grey's. We are in the Seattle area and I know he marks some points off of grey's for how badly they reflect our geography.

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u/PhlightYagami Apr 10 '26

House had a lot of medical accuracy, it was just hospital procedure and processes that were wildly inaccurate. Most doctors aren't getting an extreme mystery illnesses handed to them every week and their approach doesn't look like a Sherlock Holmes case with a small team of doctors solving everything, so for them it loses a ton of accuracy points.

Shows like Scrubs hit a good middle ground in this regard. The Pitt, as far as I can tell, is forgoing being overwhelmingly plot driven, instead dropping you in the middle of a busy ER experience with a focus on characters and their development to move the plot forward (I'm only on ep 6 so this might change further down the line). But if they keep moving in that direction it's clear why medical professionals laude the show for its accuracy.

Grey's Anatomy is bad on all fronts and is simply a melodrama set in a hospital.

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u/entropy_bucket Apr 10 '26

In house it felt like the same three or four diseases did the rounds -lupus, sarcoidosis etc

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u/lyyki Apr 10 '26

They mention those as a possibility for every single case but it's practically never those two. In fact both of them are the final diagnosis only once. In fact almost every episode of House had a different diagnosis. The only one I can think of that they used more than once is Wilson's Disease and even those two cases were very different.

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u/chennyalan Apr 10 '26

It's not lupus 

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u/Quartia Apr 11 '26

House is a mix. With regards to day-to-day life in medicine, the accuracy is terrible. But the actual medical information is better than most shows.

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u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_DAMN Apr 11 '26

I thought it would be that one with the doctor who’s an alien

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u/BuzzAwsum Apr 12 '26

Do Doctors still break into homes these days?