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House was a diagnostician. His job and passion was solving the mystery. Patients have to give consent to recieve treatment.
That said, House avoided scans whenever necessary because they almost always showed benign tumors. He preferred identifing possible diseases through symtomatic analsys (discussing with whiteboard) and using diagnostic trials (trying a treatment) to eliminate remaining possibilities.
I want a series reboot.🤩
He’s wheel of time Semirhage from the age of legends heals the patients but gets their kicks torturing them before that he just prefers psychological torture to Semirhage’s physical torture.
He needs mouse bites!
Only note: I think he’s so
borderlinecriminal in his behavior that he never actually documents the insane expensive tests for billing. He just does them without scheduling or booking the machine or equipment. Note how he often has doctors operating the MRI, and not a radiology technician or someone trained to actually take the pictures on the specific machine.Are most of these tests actually expensive for the hospital, or is it mostly the hospital overcharging for them?
Some tests are legitimately expensive, some are “priced for insurance”, and some are a complicated middle ground where you could reasonably argue either way. Like, an MRI isn’t a cheap machine, nor is it devoid of ongoing costs, and the facility requirements to operate one are also extensive. The actual cost to run a single MRI scan though is materially cheap, ignoring labor costs. About the cost in electricity to power a house for a day. Less than $10 dollars.
On the one hand, taking those upfront, ongoing maintenance, and facilities costs and spreading them out over the cost of each scan seems reasonable. Without that money they can’t actually buy and run the machine. It can add up to $500-$10,000 per scan.
On the other hand, if you don’t get the test and the machine is just idle during the time, their costs only go down $10. You could reasonably argue that they should take any offer more than $10 if they have more idle capacity available than is needed for emergency usage.Some genetic and nuclear testing just intrinsically involves expensive materials. They’re not done often and the materials are difficult to get together safely. Given the nature of the show, those are going to be represented more often. It’s not nearly as fun to watch the rogue doctor fail to charge $75 for an automated metabolic panel as it is to watch him jam a hamster gall bladder full of neptunium up someone’s urethra while spinning them like a rotisserie in an fmri.
In the same way you said hospitals “price for insurance”, I wouldn’t be surprised if medical equipment manufacturers were doing the same, but to hospitals.
Most of the tests themselves aren’t expensive to run, but the equipment is often really expensive and maintenance, repair and software licenses needed use the equipment add expenses. Trained tech time isn’t cheap either, but yeah the costs are still massively inflated in for-profit hospitals.
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nah not a villain because he actually finds out what’s wrong with the patients and fixes it. Even if the methods are torture, as someone suffering from chronic illness where I haven’t yet found a doctor who gives a shit to actually find out what it is, I’d gladly almost die if it meant I’d start feeling better. Usually I just get pushed out the door ASAP with some pills.
If your experience with the medical system is worse than Dr House, it does not speak well of him
Play You’re Just Imagining It for a “fun” way to see how the medical system treats you when you have a chronic illness.
Yay! npckc is one of my favorite Ren’Py game makers!
what?
He definitely isn’t a good guy
OP is onto something
I’ve only watched the first 4 seasons or so of House, but in the basically the definition of an anti-hero?
