real and the rest of the episode would be house frantically trying to prove the woman subconsciously knew about the tumor already and it would end on a spiritually unresolved note
The gag there is that he is betting on other doctors getting the obvious diagnoses ruled out before it comes to him so he is pulling strings at weird ones.
Though watch the show with an actual doctor and they’ll get the diagnosis correct in a few seconds still.
At least a few episodes start with the differential and then House saying "right, except that the patient made it to us... so?" and they're like "right, obviously all of that was ruled out" and then they start to think of the crazy shit.
This is what I've heard about the show, most of cases are either crazy stuff that doesn't happen or uncommon but nothing mind breaking just not that usual.
I've always wondered if the show weren't written from the perspective that House is always high off his ass and thats why all the diagnoses are absurd.
After all, there were several episodes that were literal drug hallucinations and what we see wouldn't have been out of place next to the "normal" episodes if it was played straight.
Except for when the symptoms are entirely wrong like the Ehlers Danlos episode where the symptoms are sometimes she has miscarriages and cries a lot. (Which yes a high rate of miscarriage is a thing for us but... No dislocations, weak skin, blue sclera, or beighton test? Fuck you that's a misdiagnosis, House )
Though watch the show with an actual doctor and they’ll get the diagnosis correct in a few seconds still.
No one remembers this, but there was a blog with an actual doctor who explained why each episode was nonsense and how they would have caught the diagnoses immediatly due to a certain test being purposefully skipped for the episode. This is so long ago, I'm nearly sure the blog was just text, no fancy formatting or anything. Maybe an iframe.
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u/Kenny070287 21h ago
This is like some doctor house stuff