Comments on: House: Some Rare Illnesses for the Team

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:22:28 +0000

This is a bit older, but still noteworthy. Back in February the New York Times Mag reported about a strange mediacla case no one has been able to solve for over 20 years. As of now, there’s still no solution. The case is as follows: a 31 year old female from Oregon with these symptoms: grew her milk teeth only, lost an eye due to a retinal disease, hemangiomas in her brain, kidney failure (followed by dialysis), spasms, inner bleeding, osteoporosis and necrotic bone tissue in her legs.
All they came up with are following diagnoses: leukemia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Morbus Bechterew, Morbus Crohn and celiac disease. No single diagnosis explains everything…
Wonder, if House could solve this, when in real life no doctor could…
Good thing, though, the NHI created a section dedicated to rare diseases and the mentioned patient donated her body to science, so they still might find out what’s up with her. No one should go through the same thing.

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What Do You Think of Last Night’s House Episode? — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:32:59 +0000

[...] of all, it’s interesting that one of the unusual illnesses I talked about recently was discussed as one of the possible daganoses for the POTW. For a while, they thought he had alien [...]

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:20:16 +0000

I think the GRS would be too easy for HOUSE.
(If only one symptom)
The rest sound like fun!!

By: Lina

Lina — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:05:35 +0000

about PICA, I remember some woman telling me (or I hearing she telling someone else) that when she was pregnant she had cravings for BRICKS so she let a piece of one in her bag to lick when she wanted… now that makes sense xDD
and it would be fun if Chase was the one with the Foreign Accent Syndrome and if he suddenly lost his accent and start speaking in american accent… I don’t if it’s possible in the category of the syndrome, but it would so very fun too xDD

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:58:22 +0000

Well, they could also use a story that happened to me, with me being in House’s place. I must admit that fibromyalgia is quite common, but I solved the case way faster than the attending of the actual patient did. Still, it was fun and kept my wits busy.