Sleeping more isn’t always possible, but if you haven’t tried diet and exercise, that should be your first move.
People think that question is not taking their disease seriously, but it’s the other way around. People don’t take diet and exercise seriously enough. They’re ultra powerful determiners of health, including mental health.
Bit of an ignorant take honestly. US medical system is horrible but we absolutely have some of the finest and most advanced teaching hospitals and medical research centers in the world if you’re fortunate enough to end up in their care. Mayo clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General, UCLA Health, UC Davis Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, the list goes on.
House MD takes place in a fictitious teaching hospital in Princeton, NJ, of Princeton University fame. It is an extremely wealthy area and the reputation and prestige of the hospital is going to be far more important than what the patient can pay.
Also though, no hospital can legally refuse care if you aren’t stable, they might just not do much for you other than stabilize you enough to discharge you so you can die somewhere else.
It was never presented as representing a typical patient experience.
He did have quite a few patients who very, very clearly couldn’t afford what a hospital would charge to put up with his bullshit.
It was in many ways an idealized teaching hospital. A lot of episodes had “C” plots about House’s shenanigans in the free clinic.
See my post above about the Mayo Clinic. I recently got back from there. House it was not.
I was treated at Stanford. Same here. Our system sucks donkey nuts
I mean its like being in tech support. Losing weight and not eating shit is the equivalent of “Have you tried turning it off and on again” it should be obvious but its not.
Which is a lazy response when actually trying to troubleshoot.
No, it is important to check the easy outs. If you act like the issue is solved or communicate the expectation you can be a harmful dick though.
Most of his patients are transferred to him because the original doctor did all they knew how, it’s either Goto House or try some ginseng in your tea.
Good luck finding doctors bold enough to admit they have no idea and need help…
That is the job of general practitioner. Solve the issues with easy solutions and diagnosis. Send everything else to a specialist.
He took patients based on personal interest. The only way to get to his team was to have symptoms intersting enough to get his attention.
In fairness, they’re the last reaort, so would happen after the “have you tried meditation?” Doesn’t work.
Don’t forget “you’re over 30, your body just does that now”
I got “don’t worry, it should go away by the time you’re 30”
I was 19 at the time, and it did not
I mean, this but unironically. There’s a lot of muscular-skeletal issues that you get from… sitting in an office chair for 20 years. Or not getting tons of physical activity for most of your adult life. Or various deterioration of this or that bodily function from over/under-utilization or simple wear-and-tear.
Ask a Sports Medicine doctor what to do about compounded injuries and most of what you’ll get is “We can replace the part that’s broken” or “Stop doing the thing that’s causing you injury”. After that, there’s no miracle cure that’s going to make decades of strains and bruises and stress injuries just vanish.
I’ve sustained far more injuries sitting at a desk than I ever did as a soldier, or manual laborer.
Then you were very lucky.
Met a guy last week who found himself next to two different IEDs while in Afghanistan and then Iraq. He had far more scars to show for it than I ever did as a desk jockey.
Obviously war time duty in a warzone is far more dangerous. I’m not trying to imply that sitting at a desk is more dangerous than fighting in a war. I’m saying that physical labor is better for your body than sitting on your ass.
There is a lot of truth in that though haha.
But yeah, it sucks seeing stories of people getting told that it is just growing old, while they have a chronic illness.
In Canada they just skip that entirely and go straight to “kys lol”
this vexes me
“Let’s do some imaging on you that will cost you hundreds of dollars and pay me thousands”
Alternatively
“Have you considered that you’re faking it?”
There are a bunch of House, MD scenes where he’s doing boring consults and we get the “Stop eating shellfish if you’re allergic to shellfish” bits and gags.
I actually know people who died because they had cancer, but the doctor kept refusing to do actual examinations and just said “Oh uhh… just get more potassium or something…”
Not bothering to look further until it was too late… It’s very sad
Nichojou?
I haven’t seen it (don’t watch almost any anime), but I tracked it down. Here’s the link timed to the start of the conversation: Azumanga Daioh Episode 4 Subbed - Pool Pool Pool (HQ)
Oh thanks!
I believe the hospital in House was also a college and the cases were for study purposes. Patients getting treated was just a side effect of the experimentation…
Yes. Basically, doctor House had enough of a reputation to justify having a whole team.
And there was an oft-maligned “clinic” where stupid people would go to be harassed by House when he was being punished with working a shift there.
Binging Chubbyemu vids last night sure makes it seem like that’s not exactly true… There are far too many that begin with “presenting to the ER visibly fucked, the doctor just tells them it’s anxiety and to stop being a little bitch about it. But it wasn’t anxiety and they were not, in fact, a little bitch.”
You forgot the inflection. “Pre👆🏻SENting to the emergency room…”
