House

By Scott I should have the House Challenge Scores for the past two weeks up later this week, once I manage to rescue the scoring file from my toddler-damaged laptop. Tags: television medicine house vasculitis lymphoma strongyloides leukemia crohn’s disease The mystery was fairly bland in this w...

By Scott This episode of House started well but collapsed under the weight of its ridiculous medicine in a surprisingly short period of time. The soap opera was well done and enjoyable, though Last week’s House review A list of all prior House reviews

By Scott An interesting premise initially on this week’s episode of House, but a slight episode over all. It was in many ways a rehash of House vs God, only not as clever You’d think after six years, Jennifer Morrison would know how to pronounce ascites.

By Scott The medical mystery was good this week — lots of unexplained bleeding usually is — though not terribly original. It earns a B+. The final solution generally fit the symptoms, and had a nice twist, so earns another B+. I have mixed feelings about the medicine overall. Most of it was quite good, bu...

By Scott As the episode ends, Foreman is officially put in charge of the team — what little team there is left. Taub has quit to take a surgical job and Foreman just fired Thirteen because he feels he can’t be both her boss and boyfriend. To further complicate matters, House has realized that difficult...

By Scott Has then ever been an episode of Fringe telegraphed more blatantly? Who didn’t realize who the killer was, once Hughes mentioned that wife and infant son died in childbirth? The episode could have been salvaged by a climactic ending, but it instead it was over faster than the big boss figh...

By Scott The episode starts out with a montage of scenes of House locked in a room and undergoing Vicodin withdrawal. Not a very pleasant experience, but he comes through it unscathed. Not much non-psychiatric medicine this episode, so no major complaints. Minor ones are in blue, nit-picking in gre...

By Scott 10. Pseudocyesis Season Six of House starts two weeks from today on September 21st, so it’s time to begin this year’s House challenge. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s easy. Here’s how to play: Make a list of ten conditions or diseases you think will show up on HOUSE. Be as specific as possible: no categ...

By Scott Tags: television medicine house alien hand syndrome liver failure clotting disorder propylene glycol A perfectly serviceable episode of House – for the middle of the season, anyway. As a season finale, it was a bit of a let down (until the last five minutes, that is). Scott is a 20 year-old w...

By Scott Tags: television medicine house gonorrhea drug withdrawal atrial fibrillation toxic epidermal necrolysis sepsis I wanted to like this episode of House, I really did, but the absolutely horrible medical care just wouldn’t let me. There is an accident during a ballet recital, and 21 yea...

By Scott Seth now develops a fever. The team suggests a post-operative reaction, an Arnold-Chiari malformation, pseudotumor cerebri, or Epstein barr virus. Foreman, who’s in charge now, favors that latter and starts Seth on ribavarin. Seth now develops urinary incontinence, which makes the te...

By Scott The medical mystery itself was good again this week and deserves a B+. The final solution almost fit, but should not have been as significant a puzzle as House’s team made it, I give it a B-. The medicine was very sloppy, and even the smallest amount of research would have shown that “generic” c...

By Scott Big spoilers in the write up of this week’s episode of House, so don’t read it until you’ve watched the show. Overall, the medicine was good, though I would have liked to have seen more of it. Well, just one: Kutner may be gone, but Taub and Thirteen are still around and Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.

By Scott Tags: television medicine house locked-in syndrome varicella sclerosis cholangitis behçets disease leptospirosis An interesting concept felled by extremely poor medicine on this week’s episode of House. Lee is a roofer who ends up in the ER after a bicycle accident. He has suffered he...

By Scott A very blah episode of House. Basically a weak copy of the themes of House versus God, with much less exciting medicine. The best part was Taub’s side story, and that — like a car crash — was painful to watch but you couldn’t look away. Poor guy.

By Scott A good episode of House with a fascinating premise and some good soap opera and social moments. The medicine was average, but didn’t hurt the episode much. Too many genetic disorders to test for them all? But they tested for them all in at least two previous episodes.

By Scott Despite the barely above average medicine, I enjoyed this episode of House. Probably because it focused more on House himself than on Foreteen. I did like House’s realization that he can’t be the brilliant diagnostician he wants to be if he’s not in pain.

By Scott The medical mystery was modestly interesting this week and deserves an B. The final solution was good and earns an A. The medicine was shallow (lots of jumping to diagnoses that make little sense, no good testing), but not terrible. I’ll give it a weak B. The soap opera was well done — Wilson yank...

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house coproporphyria guillain barre carcinoid sibo sleep apnea An enjoyable episode of House; one of the better of the season. A good mystery, and the medicine was generally decent. Some nice battle of wits soap opera as well. Emmy...

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house melioidosis cushing’s disease pancoast tumor scleroderma A cleverly set-up episode of House with some unfortunately very sloppy medicine. House is rooting around in Cuddy’s desk when Jason, a patient, enters looking f...

By Scott Foreman does finally go to House and ask for help, but House turns him down. Commiserating with Cameron and Chase he has his own Eureka! moment when he realizes that Jonah is suffering from iron toxicity from all the extra vitamins his brother had been feeding him to make him stronger.

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house lead poisoning whipples disease celiac sprue chlorine gas agoraphobia Tonight’s episode of House was fairly light on actual medicine, focusing more on the personal aspects. Though there wasn’t much, for the most part, t...

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house family mediterranean fever insomnia sleepwalking fifth disease abruption An interesting medical mystery on this week’s House, unfortunately bogged down with a solution that makes no sense. Meanwhile Cuddy is having p...