Dr. John House, of the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, feels that the fictional doctor on Fox’s TV series is at risk for deafness given the amount of Vicodin he takes:
It is bad enough that the show depicts a doctor treating patients while addicted to a serious narcotic, but Vicodin is ototoxic, which means, if abused, it can cause irreversible and total hearing loss.
Maybe that can be incorporated in a future storyline.
