Are the diagnosis on House real?

It's based on real-life medical mysteries.
According to co-creator David Shore, House was inspired by two different medical writers. One was physician Lisa Sanders, who wrote a column called "Diagnosis" in the New York Times Magazine.

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How medically accurate is the show House?

House M.D. has some well-researched plots, but it also has some pretty far-fetched situations you wouldn't encounter outside the world of fiction. One significant inaccuracy occurs during episode 6 of season 6 when a “truth serum” is given in addition to an MRI to see if a patient is telling the truth.

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Is the show House based on a real doctor?

A We're sure there are plenty of cranky doctors currently practicing medicine but the character of Dr. House, played brilliantly by Hugh Laurie, is not based on a real-life doc. The idea for the show, however, is said to have come from 'The Diagnosis Column' in the New York Times Magazine.

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What was House's diagnosis?

House would eventually diagnose the infarction himself. An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic. House had the dead muscle bypassed to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest.

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Is Gregory House a real doctor?

We knew the fictional Dr. Gregory House of Princeton, N.J., was good at solving medical mysteries.

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What is Gregory House's IQ?

If we do math, then IQ of house would be min 160 and Martha's 140.

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Did they film House in a Real hospital?

The actual building filmed in the flyovers is not a hospital. Instead it is the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University. This building is the former Palmer Physics Lab and a new modern addition creating the main social center for students of Princeton University.

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How many of Dr House's patients have died?

House but they never win. Only roughly eight patients actually die, so the success rates give you hope. At the end of each episode, you know there will be catharsis. It wasn't until a Season 5 episode in which a patient had agoraphobia that I started to realize how much of a shut-in I had become.

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Why was House cancelled?

On February 8th, 2012, following the broadcast of House season 8, episode 11, "Nobody's Fault," an open letter penned by Shore, Laurie, and executive producer Katie Jacobs was published stating that they had decided the show's then-current season would be its last "after much deliberation." Much of the reason the ...

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Could House have saved Amber?

The team confirms House's diagnosis of Amber. With all of her organs damaged, she is unable to qualify for a heart transplant, and so there is nothing they can do to treat her, with Foreman noting that as soon as her heart degenerated into v-fib, there was nothing anyone could do.

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Why did Jennifer Morrison leave House?

Neither Fox nor Morrison's reps would comment, but I'm told the actress did not quit; her exit was a creative decision on the part of producers. Morrison — the first of the show's original cast members to depart — shot her last scene earlier this week and her final episode will air in November.

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What mental condition does Dr. House have?

Psychological symptoms

House is a drug addict, but he lives in self-denial, which is a common characteristic of people suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) (Mueser et al., 2006).

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Are Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard friends?

To this day, he is still close with Dead Poets Society (1989) co-star Ethan Hawke. Is very good friends with House (2004) co-star Hugh Laurie.

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What is the most realistic medical TV show?

Doctors consistently rate Scrubs as the most accurate depiction of doctors at work. It may be surprising for the show sometimes described as a live-action cartoon, but the thirty-minute workplace sitcom speaks to many aspects of real-life doctoring most medical shows leave out.

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What was the most common diagnosis on House?

Most common diagnoses
  1. 1 Cancer (24 times)
  2. 2 Heavy metal poisoning (6 times)
  3. 3 Porphyria (4 times)
  4. 4 Sepsis (3 times)
  5. 5 Hemochromatosis (3 times)
  6. 6 Severe allergic reaction (3 times)
  7. 7 Vitamin K deficiency (2 times)
  8. 8 Arteriovenous malformation (3 times)

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Who solved the most cases on House?

I recently came across this bit of trivia for House MD on IMDb , which says that: Though other characters occasionally insinuate that Dr Chase is a bit dim, he actually comes up with more correct diagnoses than any other supporting character over the course of the series.

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Why Hugh Laurie was never the same after House?

After eight years of playing House, Hugh Laurie knew that he could find a similar role as a doctor in the future if he wanted to, but he felt like doing so would mean that he was basically putting himself in a box. He didn't want to typecast himself, so he decided against working on other medical shows.

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Why was Cameron removed from House?

Her last episode as a main character was Teamwork, the 8th episode of the season. She left when she realized that House had a heavy impact on Chase and she couldn't live with it, after her failed attempt to make Chase quit the hospital as well.

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Why was Cuddy removed from House?

They wanted to pay certain actors (including Lisa Edelstein) less per episode so they could pay Olivia Wilde more as her new contract stipulated (due to her being an "in demand" actor now). Lisa Edelstein was not happy about this and didn't renew her contract which resulted in Cuddy being written off the show.

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Why does House use his cane wrong?

We have received this question more than once. And the answer is quite simple. His problem is likely extracapsular. In the pilot episode of House MD it was explained that he suffered a vascular infarct to the quadriceps muscle.

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How long would it take to watch all of House?

House M.D. - 7 days & 8 hours

While gripping and addictive, binging the 176 episodes of House M.D. comes to 7 days and 8 hours of screen time.

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Why did Wilson leave House?

Her death eventually leads Wilson to conclude that his relationship with House serves to enable House's dysfunctions. To remove himself from House's influence, he resigns from Princeton-Plainsboro at the beginning of Season 5.

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Who else auditioned for House?

Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part of House. Kyle MacLachlan auditioned for the role, too—he described it as one of the worst auditions of his life. Dempsey, of course, ended up playing another doctor: Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy.

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Is the House in the lake House a real House?

The actual house did not exist, and was built for the movie, then dismantled.

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What horror movie is based on a real House?

The Amityville Horror, a somewhat underrated flick, is based on the real-life Lutz's unsubstantiated claim that the house was actually haunted. The Dutch Colonial-style home still stands in Amityville, but its address has been changed from 112 Ocean Ave. to 108 Ocean in order to throw off curious tourists.

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