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House: And what is the treatment for advanced ovarian cancer?

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Episode 6.12, Moving The Chains: Marcus tells House that he and Eric were arrested for stealing a car, he was 16 and Eric was 14. He also says that his brother never did anything criminal after that. In season 1, we were told that Eric was 16 when he was arrested for stealing a car. See more...

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The character of House is based on Sherlock Holmes. Both suffered drug addictions (House - pain killers, Holmes - cocaine). Both focus on the patient/criminal's motives and actions rather than physical evidence. Neither can cope with normal society and have sociable sidekicks (Wilson and Watson - Dr. Wilson actually gets called Dr. Watson once by a patient in the first series). Both are extremely lazy when not on a case (Holmes read the agony aunt columns in the paper, House watches Soaps). Both never call anybody by their first names and finally both live at No 221B. See more...

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House, M.D. (2004) - 33 corrections

starring Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard (add more)

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Season 2 - Episode 15 Timestamp: 41:24 Dr. Cameron hands money to Dr. House, but a Canadian $20 bill is amongst the bills. [This is not trivia, and character mistake.]
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At the end of the Season 3 premiere, House breaks into Wilson's office and writes himself a prescription for Vicodin with Wilson's prescription pad. Vicodin is a Schedule III controlled substance, which means that a pharmacist requires verbal authorization from the prescribing doctor or his staff to dispense it to a patient, even another doctor, making the prescription useless to House, which he should know. [Actually, it isn't often verified (scary, I know). I am a paramedic and work at a hospital and no one ever questions the ER docs who write narcotic prescriptions. They simply verify that it is an actual doctor.]
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Cameron, Chase and Foreman frequently perform MRIs, CAT scans and regular x-rays. In order to do that you need to be a radiologist, which none of them is. [When you go to med school, most of the time you are taught HOW to do these procedures, you just don't do them usually. Doesn't mean they don't know how not to. Besides most of these test are done by radiology TECHNICIANS nowadays (with only a few months of schooling sometimes.)]
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Chase, Foreman and Wilson wear ties almost all the time. Any doctor working with infecteous diseases knows that ties are huge bacteria herds and that doctors should absolutely not wear them. In fact, most hospitals forbid their doctors to wear ties. While some doctors may not know this, Chase, Foreman and Wilson work closely with House, who is an expert on the subject and would most definitely know about it. [Just because they know it shouldn't be there does not make it a mistake. I am a paramedic and I can tell you a LOT of things occur that we know SHOULDN'T happen. And I know MD's and RN's with ties, and long finger nails and long hair (unbound) all the time.]
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In the episode "Daddy's Boy", it is stated that a patient of House's collapsed while attending a frat party at Princeton University. However, Princeton does not have any fraternities or sororities. [There are still fraternity parties at Princeton as the fraternities are "underground" and the students still refer to the parties they hold as frat parties. The school does not officially recognize or sanction them, but they do exist.]
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Several times throughout the show, notably in episode 12 of season 4, there is a wheelchair in the room with the MRI machine. MRI machines use very powerful magnets with strong magnetic fields: a chair with that much metal would almost certainly get sucked into the machine or at the very least pose a danger of getting sucked in and harming the patient. MRI machines are always kept on (it can costs thousands to turn them off and on), so it's not like they wheeled her in and then moved the chair before turning it on. You can watch a video of what happens when chairs get too close and how strong the magnets in these machines really are here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4uzJPpC4Wuk. [Non-ferrous metals are not attracted by magnets. The wheelchair could be made out of any non-ferrous metal.]
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In the episode "The Greater Good," House is forced to use the stairs and uses his cane with the wrong hand. [House actually uses his cane in the wrong hand all the time. He uses it on the opposite leg, something that Cutty even points out in a previous episode.]
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In House M.D. season 7 titled "Now What?" They are looking for a neurosurgeon to replace the one that is sick. Foreman is a neurologist who would have studied neurosurgery, but they took the whole episode looking for a neurosurgeon. [Studying neurosurgery as part of neurology does not make one a qualified neurosurgeon. Foreman would undoubtedly be familiar with the basic practices involved, but he would by no means be qualified to take on that role.]
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In season 6 episode 4 Cameron calls Chase by his real name (Robert) right before Chase tells Cameron about there being something wrong with the Dibala case. [His name is Dr Robert Chase. So calling him Robert is simply using his first name. The actor's name in real life is Jesse Spencer.]
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There are several episodes where doctors continue to defibrillate a patient even after s/he flatlines. A flatline (asystole, where there is no electrical activity in the heart) cannot be corrected by defibrillation, which stops a heart that's in an abnormal rhythm and gives it a chance to start in a normal one (the heart has already stopped when there is a flatline). [This is more a trope of TV and movies, rather than a mistake. The actual things done to restart a stopped heart are too graphic to show on TV, so they resort to the nice, safe paddles. This is more an issue for TVtropes.org than Moviemistakes.com.]
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Heavy (series 1)

When Jessica is first shown jumping rope the ground is normal. In some of the close ups of her feet after this suddenly the ground has become very bouncy like a trampoline. [Actually, having reviewed this scene, the ground is bouncy in all shots, including the initial shot. Take a look again.]
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Cursed (series 1)

Chase tells the two boys that he's a doctor treating Gabe Riley. That's a direct violation of his confidentiality, which no doctor would make. [This show requires some suspension of disbelief, as all of the doctors, including House, routinely violate protocol, not to mention the law, as when they break into peoples houses.]
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In this episode we learn that Chase is 26 years old. Considering that he's studied to become a priest, gone through four years of college, four years of med school, two years as an intern, four years as a resident and that he's worked for House for at least a year, that means he graduated high school at the age of 10 (if not earlier). [Chase could have graduated high school at 17. Then graduated undergraduate in 3 years. 4 years of medical school and 2 as a resident. (You do your internship while in medical school). Plus there are some colleges that do a combined undergraduate/graduate program that lasts 6 years. He could have studied as a priest as an undergrad.]
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DNR (series 1)

At the end when the jazz player comes off the elevator says that he has been discharged. Hospitals require that a patient be wheel chaired out. [I work in a hospital and have had plenty of my patients not wheeled out. If someone says no, you can't FORCE them to.]
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Fidelity (aka: Truth or Consequences) (series 1)

7 minutes and 30 seconds into chapter 3, Dr. Cameron and Dr. House are walking through a hall-way and Dr. Cameron's mic wire is very evident under her shirt. [The show is not recorded with mikes, no show is. The show is filmed with booms - overhead microphones on sticks.]
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The Socratic Method (series 1)

The show runs in approximately real time. "The Socratic Method" (1x06) is set around Christmas. Several characters note that it's House's birthday (although the exact date isn't specified). In the S2 finale, "No Reason" (2x24) House is wearing an admissions bracelet after being shot, and it reads "DOB 06-11-59." [As revealed later in the S2 finale, everything that happened since House got shot is an hallucination, so it's possible that the DOB on his bracelet would be wrong.]
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14 minutes and 33 seconds into chapter 2, the camera operator and camera can be seen in a reflection on the glass wall on the right side of the frame. [I just watched that episode, and I didn't see any part of the camera crew. If it is visible, it's only visible by freeze-framing, and thus not a valid mistake.]
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Maternity (series 1)

In the scene where House and Foreman ride the elevator down and are talking about Cameron, if you look at the the back of the elevator, there are panels where a light is shown moving up to signify that the elevator is moving down. When the elevator reaches the ground floor and there is a "ding," you can see that the light in the panels is visible while the door is opening, but then continues to go up and disappear out of sight even though Foreman and House are walking out of the elevator. [I have been on a lot of elevators where the bell goes off before the door opens and its still moving down.]
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Occam's Razor (series 1)

The episode begins with the patient in bed with his girlfriend. When she straddles him, we can see that her underwear is still on. A second later, they begin having sex without her ever removing or lowering them. [She needn't remove or lower them, she simply pulls aside the gusset of her knickers and away you go.]
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Paternity (series 1)

When the episode starts Dan is playing lacross for a team called the Tartans. Towards the end the team is called the Comets. [It's a completely different team. Not a mistake.]
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