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Experts point out how TV's Dr House often got it wrong

Croatian neurologist Denis Cerimagic and colleagues published a paper this month analyzing medical errors in the TV series House M.D., which aired 2004 to 2012.
They identified 77 errors across all 177 episodes, motivated by concerns about the show's depiction of clinical practice and diagnosis accuracy.
Examples include specialists performing wrong procedures, such as a neurologist doing a colonoscopy on the wrong patient end and a non-radiologist conducting MRI scans.
Cerimagic explained that their attention was on identifying the diagnoses of key cases, reflecting how conditions actually present in clinical settings, and recognizing medical mistakes, while also acknowledging that some decisions prioritized how effectively things appeared on screen.
The researchers, still fans of the show, concluded that despite its flaws, House M.D. Could help train medical students but warranted cautious use due to inaccuracies.

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