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I saw the tv show "House" last night. I am sure it was a rerun because it was really late at night.
I always liked this show b/c it has a whole bunch of smart doctors taking their patients very seriously. Not exactly my experience!
Anyways, last night's show had a women who was very sick and sleeping 18 hours a day. The response of the doctors on the show is one of those good news/bad news situations.
The good news is she told them she was sleeping all the time and it isn't psychological, and they believed her! (It has always been such a battle for me every time I see a new doctor to convince him it is not depression. I would always plead - please keep looking.)
The bad news is that one of the possible explanations was late stage lyme. (OK - this part is good). But they dismissed it because no one noticed a rash. If she didn't have a rash, it must be something else.
Ugh!
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Yeah, I saw that too. Kind of disappointing...
quote:Originally posted by My Tapestry: I saw the tv show "House" last night. I am sure it was a rerun because it was really late at night.
I always liked this show b/c it has a whole bunch of smart doctors taking their patients very seriously. Not exactly my experience!
Anyways, last night's show had a women who was very sick and sleeping 18 hours a day. The response of the doctors on the show is one of those good news/bad news situations.
The good news is she told them she was sleeping all the time and it isn't psychological, and they believed her! (It has always been such a battle for me every time I see a new doctor to convince him it is not depression. I would always plead - please keep looking.)
The bad news is that one of the possible explanations was late stage lyme. (OK - this part is good). But they dismissed it because no one noticed a rash. If she didn't have a rash, it must be something else.
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i saw house last night, or part of it. a side story was about a sixty + woman whose symptoms were caused by syphillis she contracted in 1939. house gave her atx for two weeks and she was supposed to be cured. one conversation btw patient and house included, "....the spirochetes are eating your brain..."
would two weeks atx work on syphillis?
anybody know?
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