Doctor Reacts To House MD Obesity Episode | Medical Drama Review

House MD is one of the most entertaining medical shows out there… but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the most accurate. Today I watched Season 3 Episode 6 “Que Será Será“. In this episode, an obese man is assumed dead by some firefighters, only to find he’s actually in a coma… after they’ve cut a hole in his wall to remove him. House, Foreman, Cameron, Cuddy, and Chase dive in running a series of tests that’s hard to believe in order to find out what’s wrong with the poor gentleman. They test for STD’s, foreign pathogens from his produce, run x-rays and MRI’s… quite frankly it gets a little out of hand and the poor guy suffers a lot. This episode shares an importance lesson in leading with compassion when it comes to treating patients, especially ones living with obesity.

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[BrandonVout]

"Are you gonna give me a zebra or a horse?"

It's House, he'll find an albino zebra with 5 legs.

[miasargent]

‘You can’t be unsympathetic and be a successful doctor.’ Tell that to literally everyone in the mental health ward.

[mrnonsense]

"Think horses not zebras."

House doesn't even think zebras. When he hears hoofbeats, the thinks two coconuts being clacked together.

[anxia-tea]

i think the reason they always think "zebras" first is because they're only handed cases that have had all the "horses" checked off.

[alexanderkuptsov]

The bit when Cameron drugged the guy to get him readmitted brilliantly shows how step by step everyone on House's team was turning into a version of House. Excellent writing.

[boneitch]

"Don't poison your patients". The knowledge I get from this channel is wild <3

[swiseman]

Foreman is actually a neurologist on the show. Idk if that qualifies him to do neurosurgery, but it's not as bad as it first seems. Cameron is an immunologist and Chase is an intensivist.

[geebean]

What I find funny is that despite House being the harshest and rudest of the bunch, he was the only one not putting every little symptom down to the man's weight, he never judged his weight once.

[fernandovalverde]

For the most part, the patients in House are referred to him after "normal" doctors treat patients and can't figure out what's wrong. That's why most of the time, the cases already have a bunch of tests completed.

[bvollm]

"She DRUGGED a patient so he wouldn't leave?!"

just you wait and see where this show goes

[aer]

A girl I grew up with who was chubby all her life; people just assumed she ate a whole bunch later on in her life, it was discovered it was her thyroid the whole time.

[Great_Olaf]

2:52 I'd actually buy Foreman knowing that. He's a neurologist, and pufferfish venom is a neurotoxin, so it's not completely out of his wheelhouse.

8:34 Yeah, House has not been a good influence on Cameron.

[stuartrobertkennedy]

"you can't be a unsympathetic and be a successful doctor"
House: hold my cane

[tobyturcott]

When my husband fell and hurt his back, I ended up having to threaten the attending physician with a lawsuit to get an x ray. This was the 6th time he'd been in the ER and the second time THAT DAY. Turned out he had vertically fractured his spine in three places. The scenario presented in House is absolutely believable to me.

[jackmeriustacktheritrix]

The thing you have to remember about the show is that House and his team are basically a team of Sherlock Holmes', by the time a case comes to them most of the likely causes have already been checked, the show is about the "zebras" with a few exceptions

[brianluttrell]

The thing about House is that he’s supposed to be a diagnostician who will only take rare cases. And while majority of the time his team does things out of order, the usually do the obvious stuff off camera before the episode really starts.

[genozuzek]

I remember watching your videos when I was a 360 lb drug addict. 215 now (6ft4), and sober. You helped me change my life and start making health conscious decisions. Words can't express my gratitude.

[divadude]

As an obese man, I can't count the number of times when I have had a legitimate medical condition, that I was told there was nothing wrong with me and I just needed to lose some weight. I had a (benign) tumor in my head that went undiagnosed/untreated for almost a decade. It took almost 10 years, and 6 doctors, and one specialist ENT to find it, all because all but one of them couldn't look past my weight.

[burtieeee]

“WHO GETS AN EEG WHEN A PATIENT ROLLS IN” this killed me 😂

[ramonalavigne]

Ann Readon from How to cook that is a food scientist. In one of her videos she said (and showed) that you can revive a lettuce by putting it's stalk in water and letting it absorb it into the leaves. She then said that you shouldn't actually do it though because the pesticides on the leaves will be absorbed up through the roots and will be throughout the plant itself rather than being washed off. The writers were actually accurate when they made that statement.