I mean, considering videos that kicked the year off, it's not like there's much competetition.

Doctor Mike to me is personally more interesting in his doctor reaction videos, but I'm growing to like Dr Hope also, the whole processional reacts genre is very entertaining as a whole.

Your profile picture says it all

'Real homeless man reacting to poor people in movies" "Real woman reacting to females in media" "Real child with a lemonade stand reacts to lemonade stands in tv shows"

Next you should do House reacting to an actual Doctor reacting to House.

That's a good point, but if doctors may have missed something on a diagnostic test, it's even more likely they missed something in the interview. I've got a complicated chronic condition, and a shallow interview is a reliable indicator of a bad doctor.

Didn't know this

Matthew Swenson ~ Right, but as acerbic as House is, as much as he thinks everyone else are idiots, he assumes that other doctors are actually competent at their jobs. If he assumed he had to start at square one with every new patient, it could cost him valuable time in diagnosing the real problem.

Not to mention House dislikes interacting with patients. Bad trait for a doctor, but it's well-established.

This is one of the parts I always think people forget about House, if your his patient, like 6 times out of 10 it's because other Doctors have tried and failed to help you, and another 3 times it's because his Team or Cuddy found something they can't figure out. Which explains why it's said rich people are wiling to pay so much for House, thus the Hospital keeping him despite his attitude and why his cases are always so weird.

From a medical standpoint, that is young. There are illnesses that affect only sertain age-groups and illnesses that are more likely in sertain age-groups. Looking at it that way, forties is young.

@@jessicabrack2846 Thank you!

@SorcererOne And thank you!

I appreciated that too, at 33: gives me hope for at least another decade 😁

Most doctors see old people with all their age related issues. Only certain specialties regularly see younger people.

my chest my chest

Just checked it. The actress was likely also 32 years old during filming. Maybe 33.

I don't think she looks 40 something. That age was probably inferred due to her high status job position.

Harsh lighting.

Thread Bomb you're right, but I think it was done on purpose, to make her look like someone who has something wrong with their body

I would have said mid 30s.

NonsensicalVids hahahaha yeah

Right? I was amazed by the fact that lupus always popped up. Like, how many simptoms has lupus? O.o

Except for that one time xD

@@Itta-vd2ek Lupus is the body defense mechanism (or the immune system) killing its own host. Technically, you can say almost everything can be diagnose as lupus. Hahaha.

My mom has lupus in the liver

It's both a negative and a positive when you think about it from a production point of view. A lot of the stuff about how House's patients come to him and how long it can often take are established in the early episodes. For example, the patient in Ep1 he doesn't take until Wilson lies and tells him that it's his cousin, but even that patient had been going from doctor to doctor for a month. In Ep2, the patient is plagued by undiagnosed night terrors and Cameron agrees to take the patient for House, and the fact that the teen is having night terrors is what intrigues him. There are a few cases here or there that are plucked out of the ER or that are specially referred directly to him, but we can safely assume 90% of House's cases probably have sought out every last option until they turned to a very expensive and very extreme option in House. Where it's a negative is that all of this is established in the first season / few episodes and the show lasted 8 years. So midway through Season 4 you might be thinking "Wait, why didn't they do this routine stuff first?" having forgotten what has been established. Also the show's editing doesn't help in that it seems to indicate that Scene A (Patient nearly dying) leads directly to Scene B (House's staff briefing him on the case). In reality, there could be Scenes B, C, D, E, F, G in there which show the patient has been through this a thousand times and that Scene A didn't directly lead to that person being in House's care, but that's also a lot of extra film time which would eat up time dedicated to the main part of the show. So give and take.

Not always the case. There are a lot of moments in the show where the doctors are criticizing House's brash jumps to conclusions, implying that they haven't eliminated the likeliest diagnoses yet.

Appreciate this comment, this is exactly what I'm going for. Great to have you onboard!

Dr Hope's Sick Notes At age 34, with no rational explanation (drug use, obesity, age etc), I had 2 brutal strokes, lost use of my L arm from mid upper arm down, lost the ease of finding the right words I wanted to use, difficulty copying a simple number sequence from a chalkboard to my cell phone, etc. It took 8 months to get back as much as I would, ended my social work career, required the neurologist to medically revoked my drivers license, & (perhaps unrelated) was when I began having absent seizures & the first symptoms of what would be determined as severe fibromyalgia (which I was taught in psych was a diagnosis of exclusion & caused me to question not only the rheumatologist who diagnosed me but my own sanity as well) I was a medical anomaly, & would give anything to have my life back......but if the Drs I dealt with had explained the things as thoroughly as you are, things would have been so much easier! What a great channel, & awesome Dr!! Thank you!!!😊

Saaameeee!!!

+Tori: That's so trippy! I never could have guessed contrast dye around the bladder could cause a remote sensation like that. BTW, I _like_ the contrast in your hair coloring. 😉

It also gives you a metallic taste in your mouth

For me, it felt like I had some thick sludge running up my arm. I didn't really ahve any of the other side effects, apart from feeling the goop travellign up my veins, or maybe that was just some latent burning sensation. Still felt it weird that they stuffed it in my arm to take pictures of my leg. I also HAD to ask the nurse if I was going to have a funny color to my piss. Answer was no.

I didn't really have a problem. But it was a few years ago so I don't fully remember

I was just about to comment this

I'm glad she's in pain, dammit!

That bitch!!

How do you think he got the skeleton? ;P

I think she looks younger than her age, even. It's just the very severe hair cut and her clothes. Put her in sweatpants and dress her up like a college kid and you'd buy that as well.

Haha. I'm working on it!

(you could get one those bicycle reflectors)

@Chris Z Mate....there's no need to be so rude and condescending. People interpret things in different ways. It may not look at all like "Sucknotes" to you, but obviously it does to several other people. Half the letters aren't even written in "correct" cursive. Additionally, you dot your i's whether you're writing in cursive, print, or a mix of the two. Not having that dot means it's even easier to misinterpret the letter.

No. No it doesn't.

@@tikayle9130 You probably think it looks like the red, octagonal SUCK signs at the corner of some blocks.

Heather Is Surviving5Kids WHAT?? I’d have BEGGED for someone to do that watching a medical show with me! Lol

Your kids are ungrateful 😂

My dad did a lot of interrogations and has ruined cop shows for me. He’s not a cop but because of his job in the armed car business he has worked with cops and occasionally the FBI and has proper training from them.

you should listen to your kids

I would love being ur kid I have a brain tumor seizures and so much more and ever since I was 4 I’m 27 now the seizures came a few years ago due to tumor resection when I was 11 that put me in 6 weeks in childrens institute I couldn’t even put two words together to make a sentence like I was trying to read the movie version of Aladdin book and couldn’t even get past the first sentence. But anyway because of that going to the doctors so much all my life when even I was young I loved medical shows medical documentaries like on discovery health channel shows like this greys all those types of doctor shows real and soaps 🧼

A lot of the weird and rare cases on House were taken from real life cases... The issue is, House gets a lot of the weird and rare cases, when in reality a doctor might only see one of these rare cases in their entire time practicing, or may never see one.

The explanation is that House is only supposed to get causes other doctors can't handle, plus cases he selects.

All I was saying is I enjoy his way of breaking down the show because a lot of times House's cases seem very difficult or hard to understand and I get that's because his cases ARE rare and he IS supposed to be portrayed and seen as a genius..... I'm just saying I enjoy Dr Hope's way of explaining things so us who may or may not know anything medical can still understand what's going on.

Of course he gets those weird cases. His whole team exists solely because nobody in the damn country knows what's up with them.

MasterMech77 correct me if im wrong but at one episode i wanna say cuddy as i am not sure who the character was said that house is the best diagnostician in the country

TheMonking406 - great that one week later he watched ep 1. First clip I watched of his, loved his review.

Jane Doe I would watch that. Maybe you could produce the videos on your channel.

arescue I’m not even sure where I would start though!

What about the TV show Bones?

OH or the HBO show "America Undercover" Autopsy

MasterMech77 Bones is more forensic anthropology

I believe it hasn't available OTC in the UK for quite some time. It became unavailable in the US a couple years after this episode had aired.

@@TheFranchiseCA interesting! Thanks for the update!

@@TheFranchiseCA That's not true. You can still get ipecac at many pharmacies. I have a bottle in my bathroom cabinet

I should have mentioned this in the video, because after watching this I won't forget the connection between Ipecac and muscle problems again!

Dr Hope's Sick Notes That‘s cool! Have a nice day 😁

Thank you! Try my best

Foreman might have been wrong or he might have said it just to get her to put the phone down.

MRI is magnetics not x-ray, it will cook that phone because the mag field will induce electrical charges in the circuits and destroy it to the point of exploding.

Yes, you're right. It was only quite recently outlawed. And, as someone who spent an unfortunate amount of time in eating disorder clinics myself (though, quite awhile ago and before it was outlawed -- something I only heard about for the first time a few months back), it was definitely abused in the same way laxatives are abused. ...particularly for those who'd been purging so long their body stopped responding to self-inflicted vomiting, or for those who never had a strong gag reflex. It's extra disheartening bc the weight loss and dehydration of bulimia alone had devastating medical complications (more so than even anorexia), but the substances like ipecac and laxatives alone have their OWN adverse reactions too. Their ingredients and what they rely on to work are individually damaging to the body. It's incredibly sad.

Kaalyn - OPG t5u3

Wow. I initially couldn't believe a doctor didn't know what ipecac is, thanks for explaining. Makes me wonder what other basic things certain doctors don't know about.

I was really surprised that he’d never heard of ipecac. It makes sense that it’s a UK vs US thing. I’m 35 and when I was growing up and up until I was in college ipecac syrup was considered a part of any basic at-home first aid kit. Especially if you had young kids in the house. When I was in middle school I took a Red Cross class for babysitters. They gave us a list of things we could keep in a first aid kit we took to every job so that we knew didn’t waste time looking for the clients’ first aid stuff. I remember ipecac being on that list, but we were told to only use it if we called the Poison Control Center and they told us to. It’s funny that one of the other really core staples of a first aid kit was hydrogen peroxide for cleaning minor wounds and even for easing a very mild earache. Now both ipecac and peroxide aren’t recommended and aren’t kept in first aid kits these days. My son was born in 2009 and around then I got a large pre-filled first aid kit for my car. I was surprised that it didn’t have any ipecac in it. That’s the first time I noticed that ipecac wasn’t recommended anymore. It’s funny that I’ll probably have to explain that stuff to my son someday similar to how I was perplexed when my parents talked about using iodine or castor oil.

@@deepermind4884 Well it wasn't a doctor, but I told a nurse I was allergic to NSAIDs once and she had no idea what those were...

Me!!!

Me too!

I live just up from green gables in Prince Edward Island Canada 😊

I learned about it from a video of a man chugging a bottle of it then ‘washing’ the interior of his car.

Wow I read the book years ago but I didn't remember that..

Too nitpicky of you. Tell me, what's the most common cause of IHD again?

Challenge accepted!

You're awesome.

G-Man Bond 007 oh hell ye more house

ikr, he steals all dr hope's ideas

Cash or ...? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hehe I think he's my number 1 fan

I don't understand this rivalry. You produce good content and there's no shortage of humans watching KZfaq videos. It's not a zero-sum game. You seem so nice and cheerful that it's sad that this has become such a sticking point. The guy might be an asshole (don't know or care), but you can certainly just let it go. Edit: I never comment on KZfaq videos, but I really like your stuff and hope this doesn't keep becoming a recurring thing!

Can't speak for all hospitals, but at mine we have a very limited toxicology screen; ipecac would not be in it. And usually we use these tests to evaluate the extent of overdoses to guide treatment rather than diagnose. We still mainly rely on good old fashioned history / collateral history / patient's signs and symptoms to figure out what people have taken. I can imagine labs for drug testing would sit more under forensics rather than medicine.

I'm so sorry to hear about your father and his health issues right now. Not at all to try to use your comment as a springboard, but that might be a really good section that Dr Hope could create. Starting with ALS: what to expect from a diagnosis. Wishing you and your family all the love and support in the world x

Charlotte Roberts thank you so much. We lost him last night. His lungs kept filling with fluid and he couldn’t cough it out. They kept him comfortable until he took his last breath. I would love for Doc to make a video about it. It took us over a year to find a diagnosis for my father, taking him to over ten doctors multiple times. Then we finally got a diagnosis and he’s gone the next day. It still doesn’t feel real.

Oh my darling I am so terribly sorry. My greatest condolences to you and your family. Wishing you all strength at this time x

@@THEMCkown My sincerest condolences to you and your family. If you need to, please talk to someone that you can trust, otherwise have a talk to your local doctor.

So sorry for your loss

The ECG function doesen't work yet. It comes with an update in the future

Blimey! I should watch more YT I may have got the diagnosis :)

Giving someone a violent emetic as a 'prank' is definitely assault.

David Szaks i think it’s basically poison to the body.

Vicodin is an opiate (like morphine for example) that binds to opioid receptors (special proteins in the brain, spinal cord and GI tract) with the aim of blocking pain. Opiates are very effective at this. But they come with a well known downside (other than addiction and possible worsening of pain) of tolerance. Patients develop opioid tolerance when their receptors become desensitized to the drugs. This means that every subsequent dose will need to be higher than the previous to achieve the same level of pain relief. It's likely that Dr House is at that level of desensitization (hence why he pops vicodin like tic tacs) that he doesn't experience the side effects to such a serious degree (like taub). But the "high" could explain his detached nature and cowboy attitude to patient management as well.

Yeah, that I know. It's imply in the series that the fact that he is on Vicodin makes him dissociative from everyday emotions. When he has to see Cuddy when she was ill he is unable to go until he takes the Vicodin. I always figured that when he is on Vicodin he does not feel the physical tool of emotions, either. However, it was always a doubt that I have when it comes to the cognition part. Especially, since I know patients that take Vicodin and are very em... slow.

Alright I'm going to do my best to explain here. I definitely have insight because I'm a (recovering) opiate addict. I should start by saying that the effects are different for everyone. For me, I became addicted because I'm a naturally anxious person and opiates give you a warm feeling alongside dampening down thought processes. Yes it numbs, but for me, it feels like it brings me back to normal and allows me to function. I imagine that House has a similar reaction to me, hence why he takes the vicodin. The most important point to note however is that most people react differently to different drugs due to genetic and social factors and that's what determines how, when and why they become addicted. As a personal example I can function on doses of opiates that would be highly unpleasant and dangerous to other people but I absolutely abhore the effects of alcohol (and consequently do not drink).

Well, that's a nice reply. Hope you are being honest and, more importantly, fine. It's quite interesting what you are saying about bringing you "back to normal". And yes, I know that drugs react differently according to the person. I have a lot of questions, although. Would you care to answer them privately? I am very curious about the addict-psyche.

Pretty sure episodes set prior to his addiction and when he is off it show that he has ALWAYS been detached and a bit of a cowboy. At best the Vicodin might have exacerbated it, but generally speaking this is just who he is. A combination of his natural personality plus growing up in an abusive household is the real culprit here.

OMG HE ACTUALLY SAW THIS COMMENT.

She is now the actress Sarah Clarke was norn in 1972

Yes, born in 1972, making her 32 (give or take) at time of filming.

I dunno, looks like she hit the ipecac a little too hard.

thicc*

They were pretty likely based on lists of strange rare diseases. These lists are based on actual cases. So indirectly, yes they are based at least on large numbers of real cases. There are likely specific episodes based on sanitized cases from medical journals. Oddly enough there is a real life case that is based on an episode of house. More correctly, one of the doctors in it drew inspiration in his diagnosis and treatment from a 7th season episode of house where a patient was having a litany of symptoms and being very refractive to treatment. The diagnosis ended up being heavy metal poisoning from cobalt in her hip replacement.

I agree. Diagram was a bit messy and message not as clear as could have been. Will work on it. Thanks for the feedback.

Dr Hope's Sick Notes I do want to reiterate that I really enjoy your videos, and I like the medical examination from front to end! I've always wondered how close to reality the writing got on House...