Corrected entry: When House is walking out after screening the movie, Cuddy says, "Where are you going? Rescue kittens from trees, read to deaf kids?" Reading to deaf kids makes no sense. You would read to blind kids.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Actually, having reviewed this scene, the ground is bouncy in all shots, including the initial shot. Take a look again.
Daddy's Boy - S2-E5
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: House is told Laura can't donate her heart because she has Hepatitis C. He declares that she doesn't have hep c, since it doesn't present with a fever and an upset stomach, which Laura had that morning. While hep C doesn't present that way, people with chronic hep C still get fevers and stomach problems like everyone else. Her fresh symptoms are completely irrelevant when it comes to whether or not she has hep C.
Correction: The implication is that House changed Laura's medical records to show she had Hep C so that her heart would be rejected.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: Non-ferrous metals are not attracted by magnets. The wheelchair could be made out of any non-ferrous metal.
Corrected entry: Season 2 - Episode 15 Timestamp: 41:24 Dr. Cameron hands money to Dr. House, but a Canadian $20 bill is amongst the bills. (00:41:20)
Corrected entry: 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."
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: When the episode starts Dan is playing lacross for a team called the Tartans. Towards the end the team is called the Comets.
Correction: It's a completely different team. Not a mistake.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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. (00:01:10)
Correction: She needn't remove or lower them, she simply pulls aside the gusset of her knickers and away you go.
Acceptance - S2-E1
Corrected entry: When they do the MRI on the death row guy, House says that the ink will get sucked out due to the strong magnet. This is incorrect; the only thing that can happen is a bit itchiness or skin irritation.
Correction: He isn't serious, he's saying it to scare the inmate.
Corrected entry: Doctors can't just randomly work in any department they feel like. Cameron, an immunologist, is not qualified to work in the ER. Chase, on the other hand, is, as he is specialised in emergency medicine, but he works on the surgical staff despite being neither a surgeon nor an anesthesiologist.
Correction: It's stated that Chase works as some kind of assistant in the surgical team, the surgeons are referred to as his bosses. With Chase having his time in House's team on his resumée (House obviously has quite a reputation) he would have no problem getting a job like that. As for Cameron working in the ER, well, not many doctors want to work in busy ERs so they pretty much take what they can get, even doctors that technically aren't qualified (or so my mother tells me, she works in one). Also, again, working with a famous doctor like House gives advantages.
Corrected entry: House says Einthoven was Belgian, but in fact he was Dutch. It does not serve a further purpose in the episode, and it would have been the character's mistake if that character hadn't been House. Because the series is based on House being near omniscient, it must be a factual mistake.
Correction: House often makes mistakes in the show. For example, in the Season 1 episode "DNR," House thinks that the jazz player has Wegner's Disease, and is proven wrong, even stating, "Another mistake."
Corrected entry: 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).
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: When House gets called back into work by Cameron it is almost midnight, as stated by Cameron. House then goes up on the roof, where the sun is shown either setting or rising. He then goes back down to his team and checks his watch to note when midnight occurs and Foreman's four weeks in charge are over. This episode takes place in the days directly following last week's episode, which was set during winter (complete with a heavy snowstorm). In winter the sun neither sets nor rises around midnight.
Correction: Given that hospitals are open on a 24 hour basis, House is likely calculating the end of the 4 weeks as being the start of the morning shift on the 29th day. He comes in at midnight, some time passes, sees the sun rise from the roof, then the 28th day ends. No problem. BTW, the sun never rises or sets near midnight in Princeton, New Jersey so proving that it was winter is overkill..
Correction: Cuddy's trying to wind him up. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, given that she's trying to push House's buttons, the less sense made, the better.
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