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rhysintherain · 11 months ago

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For a show about diagnostic medicine, House does shockingly little actual diagnosis.

"Start him on antibiotics." Have you seen a bacteria? No? That's because apparently nobody on your team knows how to grow a culture or run a gram stain.

"It's probably cancer, start him on radiation." Without finding the cancer?? Without knowing what it is so you can decide on a treatment plan??

Very funny that actual diagnosis is too boring for House, so he just throws treatments at people until it almost kills them and demonstrates what the problem isn't.

#'checking for a bacterial infection will take too long'#dude i have personally had cultures grow in 12 hours #you don't need a mature diagnostic growth pattern you just need enough to throw some antibiotic discs on to see what kills it #throw it on a half dozen selective growth mediums at the start to see what sticks #pretty sure agar and the incubator are cheaper than antibiotics #cancer is pretty easy to diagnose so y'all could at least try lmao #you somehow rule out MS in 15 minutes #even though everyone i know who has it waited 5-10 years for a diagnosis #so spend a little time of the fucking boring cancer please?#I'm not even gonna touch antigen tests for viral infections #you people went to med school even if the writers who created you didn't #act like it #House MD

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