House, Go Home

I made the terrible mistake of watching House on television recently. I think that my brain is starting to turn to mush.

Apart from the fact that he and his staff are somehow capable of performing and administering any and every test and procedure in the hospital, feel that they have the right to invade and inspect patients' homes at will, and have no qualms at talking patients into experimental and dangerous therapies that have little likelihood of doing them any benefit - they seem incapable of taking an adequate history, performing a physical examination, or ordering investigations appropriately or safely.

The plot tries to account for this by placing him in a Department of Diagnostic Medicine that handles all the difficult cases - but many of his cases are far from difficult, or are completely contrived. He and his team are just incompetent.

I better stop watching before I become as incompetent as he is.