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Ensia t1_ivnzfqc wrote

Reply to comment by killcat in In House M. D. there is an episode in which the doc asked the lady who was concerned about weight gain. Doc asked her to raise their hand and by seeing that he was able to determine she was pregnant. Do arms and pregnancy have some correlation? by Abhinav_Mani

And full of misinformation on top of that. I remember a few episodes in they said malaria is caused by a fungi and that was it for me. You don't even need to pay an expert for that, Wikipedia would have told you it's a parasite. Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but stuff like that really rubs me the wrong way.

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oscillius t1_ivo48vz wrote

I really enjoyed house. Love Hugh Laurie as an actor. I’ve watched the shows more times than I can count although it’s been a long time I think I know the episode you’re talking about.

But im pretty sure it was toxoplasmosis they said was caused by a fungus and not malaria.

The only malaria episode I remember is where the guy can’t speak properly, a journalist with bipolar or something. They diagnose malaria at the end but I don’t remember them mentioning fungus.

I checked for that episode and it was s2e10 “failure to communicate”, diagnosis was cerebral malaria. Some websites listed the goofs and they say that when they looked into the slides the “parasite” that was supposed to be malaria looked more like the bacteria that causes syphilis.

I’m trying to find the episode with toxoplasmosis but I can’t remember what the episode was called. I remember it was about a politician. I’ll edit it when I find it.

E: https://www.moviemistakes.com/tv4941/episode23818

Didn’t take long, s1e17, “role model”. It wasn’t the final diagnosis so I couldn’t find it in the list. But that website has the mistake listed at the top.

“Factual error: House and Foreman tell the Senator that he has toxoplasmosis, which is caused by a fungus. Toxoplasmosis is actually caused by a protozoan parasite”

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weeknie t1_ivnzq89 wrote

I know they often embellished the symptoms or the chance of something happening, but this is such a basic fact that it's just ridiculous. Then again, you feel like you're being nitpicky, which makes you feel me doubt whether they actually said it as straightforwardly as your suggesting

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Ensia t1_ivo022n wrote

Granted it was a long time ago, but i remember the scene was at the end of the episode where they figured everything out and were telling the patient they have malaria, which is a disease caused by a fungi and now they just need to take some medicine and it'll all be alright.

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ijustwannacomments t1_ivo0vf7 wrote

Pretty sure I remember an article that linked the popularity of Scrubs to an increase in medical mistakes be because basically "lol woops oh well everyone makes mistakes 😅"

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pursnikitty t1_ivo0pyv wrote

I watched another show where a medical professional stated bubonic plague was caused by a virus. Couldn’t watch it after that

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