Why is House interesting to watch?
1. Because it is a medical drama and everyone loves medical dramas.
2. It is a little more than your average medical drama.
It shifts away from supply-room sex or love triangles involving the intern, her boss and his wife (no, the wife and the intern are not sleeping with each other. Yeah I am disappointed too) but focuses more on the terminologies and the technical aspect of diagnosis and treatment. Though maybe to the trained eye, it is still more drama than reality.
3. It provides a lot of 'Do you know's.
For example, do you know how doctors recognise infections? They look for antibodies which will then tell them what kinds of infection the patient has got. And if a certain test comes back negative, it does not necessarily mean that the patient is free of that infection. In rare cases, it just means that the body is not able to produce antibodies to fight that particular infection.
Another example, do you know that herpes (a type of STD) actually kills cancer cells?
A last example before you get bored: a sudden drop in pain can cause euphoria. That explains why some people keep banging their heads against the wall, because it feels so good when they stop.
4. There are quite a bit of zen-ish and philosophical stuff. Examples:
5. And then there is the quips that everyone makes at everyone else. Though usually it is House at everyone else. Examples:
2. It is a little more than your average medical drama.
It shifts away from supply-room sex or love triangles involving the intern, her boss and his wife (no, the wife and the intern are not sleeping with each other. Yeah I am disappointed too) but focuses more on the terminologies and the technical aspect of diagnosis and treatment. Though maybe to the trained eye, it is still more drama than reality.
3. It provides a lot of 'Do you know's.
For example, do you know how doctors recognise infections? They look for antibodies which will then tell them what kinds of infection the patient has got. And if a certain test comes back negative, it does not necessarily mean that the patient is free of that infection. In rare cases, it just means that the body is not able to produce antibodies to fight that particular infection.
Another example, do you know that herpes (a type of STD) actually kills cancer cells?
A last example before you get bored: a sudden drop in pain can cause euphoria. That explains why some people keep banging their heads against the wall, because it feels so good when they stop.
4. There are quite a bit of zen-ish and philosophical stuff. Examples:
Pain causes you to make bad decisions. The fear of pain is almost as big a motivator.
As long as you're here (Wilson stayed at House's after moving out of his apartment), it's just a fight. As soon as you get a place, then it's a divorce.
Right and wrong do exist. Just because you don't know what the right answer is — maybe there's even no way you could know what the right answer is — doesn't make your answer right or even okay. It's much simpler than that. It's just plain wrong.
You know what's worse than useless? Useless and oblivious.
If you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic.
5. And then there is the quips that everyone makes at everyone else. Though usually it is House at everyone else. Examples:
House: Tox screen was clean, he did however get hit by a bullet. Just mentioning.
Cameron: He was shot?
House: No, somebody threw it at him.
[At the morgue, House is going through the various freezers, checking on the bodies.]
Chase: What are you looking for?
House: I called my mom, she didn’t pick up.
Moments later...
Cuddy: I can’t even imagine the backwards logic you used to rationalize shooting a corpse.
House: Well if I shot a live person, there’s a lot more paperwork.
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