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Originally Posted by Patricia
I am packing for a trip to Paris. ( I hope to meet Zelda, Natch and Hadrien on Tuesday).
Don't take any notice of House! I believed it until they showed a couple of episodes involving people with haemochromatosis (Hemachromatosis, if you're in the USA). We have it in our family (it's an inherited disease) and the episodes are very silly and ridiculously over-dramatised.
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Yes ... which is why I seldom watch medical shows. Nearly twenty years of working in hospitals and ARC (before and during law school) left me sitting in front of the TV shouting "You have GOT to be KIDDING me!!" at the screen. Not a pretty picture.
Can't watch most of the legal shows without the same problem.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
don't forget a sweater (here's hoping you won't need it).
but nonetheless, you must admit, hugh laurie *is* sickeningly talented. i recommend "a bit of fry and laurie" which is a sketch show they did together (before house, and possibly before Jeeves and Wooster, i'm not sure of the dates) which will make you fall off your chair laughing. (he plays the piano in those as well).
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I had such a crush on Stephen Fry until I found out he was gay. Not that it made me think any less of him ... I still think he is ever so smart and good looking ... it's just that my crush suddenly seemed so incrediby futile. (Not that I would have had any real chance with him if he were a heterosexual ... but I could at least PRETEND that I had a chance then.)
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I like 'House' - even though most of the medical dialogue is gibberish to me  .
But I appear to have missed the episode, either the end of series 1 or the start of series 2, where he discovered a cure for male pattern baldness  . |
On medical shows generally ... I gave up on taking any of them even half way seriously the day I watched an episode (don't remember what show -- but it was set in Los Angeles) where "Very Important Specialist" waltzes into the laboratory and pushes aside the tech to peer knowingly into the microscope.
"Ah," he says (also knowingly) ... "eo-sophi-nils!!" And ... waltzes out again.
OK ... at this point, I am laughing hysterically. Why?? Because:
1. the word is properly pronounced "eo-sin-o-phils."
2. this is a cell that often pops up in people with allergic reactions, a few on any blood smear are to be expected.
3. In Los Angeles where the air is better these days, but still smoggy, having a fairly high number of the little buggers still isn't particularly cause for concern. It just goes with living in LA.
4. Specialists just don't come wandering into the lab. It just doesn't happen ... really, it doesn't. Unless, of course, they have the hots for someone down there and come in for the social chit chat (rare but does happen).
