Wondering about the wacky medicine that Hugh Laurie practices on TV? Meet Dr. Lisa Sanders, the medical adviser on House, M.D., and why medicine at times loses out to humor.
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Love the show but I wish they would stop giving levofloxacin for meningitis. It’s in about 10 episodes.
It won’t work.
Isn’t a medical advisor supposed to catch that?
In the first episode of House I watched they coded a patient for like two days and showed a huge pile of empty epi pre-filled boxes on a mayo stand. More epi than a pharmacy probably stocks. Made me a little crazy. Especially since after coding the guy for two days House figured out what was wrong with him and five minutes later he was awake, alert, oriented, and not intubated. (One reason why people want their loved ones coded forever is because they see it work on TV all the time!)
Also, he uses his cane in the wrong hand. They should at least have him use his cane correctly.
I can’t stand the show!
The long code/epi thing is silly.
House uses his cane in the wrong hand. In season 2 he goes to PT and they yell at him about this; he is too stubborn to listen. He says “but I like it in the wrong hand.”
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