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Kuiperdolin posted:Speaking of Hugh Laurie House MD aged like a patient of the week with acute progeria. The first season was mostly fine but from season 2 onward it was a precipitous slide into self-parody/indulgence. Formulaic yet nonsensical plots, 2edgy4me themes and a complete unwillingness to move away from statu quo. It's especially obvious now that you can binge it. They also devolved into soap opera and stopped caring about medical accuracy.
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If people cared about medical accuracy Chicago Hope wouldn't have gotten cancelled.
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Jun 19, 2018 20:36
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Nobody watched House for medical accuracy, it was just to see how much of a jerk House would be to his patients/his staff/himself that week.
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Jun 19, 2018 21:12
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People occasionally lauded it for medical accuracy but you're right. There was a doctor who blogged about the medicine in each episode. His site isn't working anymore, but I found it on the wayback machine. e: he also kept track of all the times someone using psychic powers gave people nosebleeds in comics and tv for some reason.
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Jun 19, 2018 21:19
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Samuringa posted:Nobody watched House for medical accuracy, it was just to see how much of a jerk House would be to his patients/his staff/himself that week. House was really just Sherlock Holmes but crime is literally a disease
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Jun 19, 2018 22:56
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I've mentioned Scrubs a couple of times already and I don't want to look like a stalker for continually bringing it up, but it was considered one of the more accurate medical shows. I've watched Grey's Anatomy with my wife a few times and the whole show is just one big HIPAA violation and exhibit A at every single one of those doctor's malpractice lawsuit.
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Jun 19, 2018 23:12
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Krispy Wafer posted:I've mentioned Scrubs a couple of times already and I don't want to look like a stalker for continually bringing it up, but it was considered one of the more accurate medical shows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FyRzgJFeLE
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Jun 19, 2018 23:34
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Samuringa posted:Nobody watched House for medical accuracy, it was just to see how much of a jerk House would be to his patients/his staff/himself that week. And the very mid-00s rants about how religion is the real disease. Makes u think. House was fun for a few seasons. But 90% of the episodes are the most formulaic thing on TV. You’re just waiting for the first wrong diagnosis, then the symptoms get worse, then the epiphany etc.
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Jun 19, 2018 23:42
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SEX BURRITO posted:And the very mid-00s rants about how religion is the real disease. Makes u think. I made it through S3 really enjoying it (except for the Mandatory Villain Arc for each season), but even though S4 mixed it up a fair bit character wise, the cases just got bizarre. And not in a good way.
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Jun 19, 2018 23:46
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Now that Hitlers are back in chic this may not hold up as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnLNJcqlJqE Nah, still works.
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Jun 19, 2018 23:53
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I made it through S3 really enjoying it (except for the Mandatory Villain Arc for each season), but even though S4 mixed it up a fair bit character wise, the cases just got bizarre. And not in a good way. Towards the end the show basically became a parody of itself, with characters calling out House for getting that epiphany look then running away.
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Jun 20, 2018 00:04
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fruit on the bottom posted:Although the bigger plot points about Walt not being able to afford medical treatment for a life-threatening illness, and the same thing for Hank’s physical therapy have aged like a loving wine. We're almost right back there--maybe one republican-sponsored bill to go and pre-existing conditions are back, baby.
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Jun 20, 2018 02:48
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Not Operator posted:People occasionally lauded it for medical accuracy but you're right. There was a doctor who blogged about the medicine in each episode. His site isn't working anymore, but I found it on the wayback machine. I actually was going through old bookmarks and saw this site was down a few days ago. One of his reviews is how I figured out why my dad's urostomy bag was turning blue/purple. None of his doctors had any clue.
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Jun 20, 2018 03:54
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Araenna posted:I actually was going through old bookmarks and saw this site was down a few days ago. One of his reviews is how I figured out why my dad's urostomy bag was turning blue/purple. None of his doctors had any clue. Early on, House had some great medical staff and most, if not all, of the signs and symptoms were bang on for their organ system. Rare, but accurate. By S4 it had a an episode about “mirror syndrome” which has been observed a whopping one time. Which means the irl patient could have definitely been faking it. It is fun to watch with Wikipedia handy to look up what they’re talking about though.
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Jun 20, 2018 04:41
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Early on, House had some great medical staff and most, if not all, of the signs and symptoms were bang on for their organ system. Rare, but accurate. By S4 it had a an episode about “mirror syndrome” which has been observed a whopping one time. Which means the irl patient could have definitely been faking it. Literally any show that uses multiple personality disorder as well. It's a fictional disease that originated from one of those 1950s "Modern Mysteries" things that showcased a woman alleging she had 8 separate personalities. It's become such a popular thing that, like Morgellons, it's become a layperson's imaginary disease that must be real but all major research and study has shown isn't.
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Jun 20, 2018 05:54
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pentyne posted:Literally any show that uses multiple personality disorder as well. It's a fictional disease that originated from one of those 1950s "Modern Mysteries" things that showcased a woman alleging she had 8 separate personalities. It's become such a popular thing that, like Morgellons, it's become a layperson's imaginary disease that must be real but all major research and study has shown isn't. My other two personalities are just as skeptical but I'm possessed by the idea that there's something to it.
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Jun 20, 2018 06:01
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pentyne posted:Literally any show that uses multiple personality disorder as well. It's a fictional disease that originated from one of those 1950s "Modern Mysteries" things that showcased a woman alleging she had 8 separate personalities. It's become such a popular thing that, like Morgellons, it's become a layperson's imaginary disease that must be real but all major research and study has shown isn't. Multiple personality disorder is in fact a thing that exists but it's now called dissociative identity disorder. The reason is that it isn't multiple distinct personalities but rather a fragmentation of a person's personality. The popular media view is the prevailing one that people believe; that it's effectively multiple people living in one head. In reality it's one personality that shattered, generally due to trauma, so parts of it turn on and off that makes it look like a person has multiple different personalities. It's a real thing it just isn't what most people think it is.
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Jun 20, 2018 06:13
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Tiggum posted:Also to minimise the amount of time they need to have babies and children on set, because of the added difficulty of getting small children to do what you need them to and the inconvenience of their extremely limited work hours. It's just a huge hassle to employ children, so you only do it if they're absolutely necessary. The other solution that gets used a lot is just keeping them off-screen as much as possible - at school or daycare, visiting the grandparents, a sleepover at a friend's house, etc. This explains a lot how the vast majority of children on television are animated. Also, harder to molest.
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Jun 20, 2018 09:56
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This explains a lot how the vast majority of children on television are animated. You realize there is an entire and rather large segment of the online population that has taken the demostrably true fact that "you cannot molest an animated child" as a challenge
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Jun 20, 2018 12:51
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Pastry of the Year posted:You realize there is an entire and rather large segment of the online population that has taken the demostrably true fact that "you cannot molest an animated child" as a challenge Don't do this to them, let their life be pure and innocent
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Jun 20, 2018 17:51
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Somebody call the coast guard because that ship is problematic.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:15
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Volcott posted:Somebody call the coast guard because that ship is problematic. Said entire population of creeps uses this exact argument to claim that people are harassing them over "ships" when they create pornographic and/or incestuous content of said children.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:44
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Multiple personality disorder is in fact a thing that exists but it's now called dissociative identity disorder. The reason is that it isn't multiple distinct personalities but rather a fragmentation of a person's personality. The popular media view is the prevailing one that people believe; that it's effectively multiple people living in one head. In reality it's one personality that shattered, generally due to trauma, so parts of it turn on and off that makes it look like a person has multiple different personalities. Yeah, I had a therapist who talked about a patient he had that had all the Hollywood symptoms of MPD and he even called it MPD instead of DID. I stopped seeing that therapist.
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Jun 20, 2018 18:53
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ryonguy posted:Said entire population of creeps uses this exact argument to claim that people are harassing them over "ships" when they create pornographic and/or incestuous content of said children. I was just making joke. My ships are entirely appropriate. Edit: a shameful therapist. Gossiping about patients to other patients is not appropriate.
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Jun 20, 2018 19:14
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Volcott posted:Edit: a shameful therapist. Gossiping about patients to other patients is not appropriate. Yeah it looks like they dodged a couple bullets there
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Multiple personality disorder is in fact a thing that exists but it's now called dissociative identity disorder. The reason is that it isn't multiple distinct personalities but rather a fragmentation of a person's personality. The popular media view is the prevailing one that people believe; that it's effectively multiple people living in one head. In reality it's one personality that shattered, generally due to trauma, so parts of it turn on and off that makes it look like a person has multiple different personalities. That one’s also pretty controversial, most of the diagnoses are clustered around a really small amount of psychiatrists.
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Volcott posted:I was just making joke. My ships are entirely appropriate. I'm pretty sure it's straight up against the medicine laws or whatever they call it and could make them lose their license.
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Jun 20, 2018 23:35
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I think doctors can talk about cases as long as they don't providing identifying info about their patient (or their brain-stowaways)
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Jun 20, 2018 23:46
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Two things in Batman Beyond: the X-treme aesthetic that instantly dates the show to the year 2000, and that blaring music that plays whenever Batman throws a punch.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:05
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It also took the “old people always hate new music” reflex to its height by having the music kids listened to be industrial press and drill noises from a sound library. I don’t know if it was meant ironically.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:21
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People still liked campy musicals in the future, so it's fine.
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Jun 21, 2018 19:26
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Sure it wasn't just Neubauten?
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Jun 21, 2018 23:01
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Man, haven't heard Einsturzende Neubauten name dropped in a while. I caught them in Chicago back in like 2000. It was a....weird show. They really liked talking to the audience.
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Last Chance posted:I think doctors can talk about cases as long as they don't providing identifying info about their patient (or their brain-stowaways) I mean, I never looked into it, but he said she was a famous singer or something? So I probably could have figured it out, based on when he started to transition and what famous singers would have been living near him at the time. So I'm pretty sure he gave me way too much information. It also made me feel really gross to know about someone's private information and know that he might tell someone else stuff about my sessions that had literally nothing to do with anything. Like, it wasn't even like "Oh, I had a patient who had a similar problem, and they said doing X helped a lot". It was so loving random.
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House was my favourite series for its first few years (I sort of lost interest when his original team all quit, though I recall the "try-outs" storyline being good fun) but I have to wonder if there are doctors today who were inspired to go into medicine by it and are now disappointed that they can't play video games all day in their office and be an rear end in a top hat to everyone. 
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Jun 22, 2018 12:20
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Wheat Loaf posted:House was my favourite series for its first few years (I sort of lost interest when his original team all quit, though I recall the "try-outs" storyline being good fun) but I have to wonder if there are doctors today who were inspired to go into medicine by it and are now disappointed that they can't play video games all day in their office and be an rear end in a top hat to everyone. Kal Penn committed suicide to go work for Obama, and everyone forgot about it by the next episode.
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Jun 22, 2018 13:04
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IIRC, Scrubs is still probably the most accurate medicine show apparently. It may help that it focuses less on the weird disease side of things unless they have a reason to incorporate it into a plot, more the endless mundane drudgery and workplace silliness of working at a hospital. The medical mystery I recall first was the guy with the light bulb up his butt.
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Didn't Omar Epps' character have brain surgery and despite major cognitive issues kept on trucking like it wasn't a big deal a couple of episodes later? I think I ran out of interest on season 5 or so. Though the idea of anyone happening to be diagnosed by House would likely end up bankrupt from medical bills was amusing. That website that tracked the plsusibility of the diagnostics was pretty cool to read. But yeah you could tell they were running out of ideas and moved more into House melodrama.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC, Scrubs is still probably the most accurate medicine show apparently. It may help that it focuses less on the weird disease side of things unless they have a reason to incorporate it into a plot, more the endless mundane drudgery and workplace silliness of working at a hospital. The medical mystery I recall first was the guy with the light bulb up his butt. Scrubs also accurately showed that people doing their residency are permanently exhausted.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC, Scrubs is still probably the most accurate medicine show apparently. It may help that it focuses less on the weird disease side of things unless they have a reason to incorporate it into a plot, more the endless mundane drudgery and workplace silliness of working at a hospital. The medical mystery I recall first was the guy with the light bulb up his butt. Early ER was mandatory watching for my class in Med School after it correctly showed the answer to a finals question. Sadly this did not involve a helicopter.
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