House drives me mad
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chrishansenhomeNo, not my residence. It's the TV show, House. I'm sure my US readers are all familiar with it, but it is now showing on some Sky channel here, and HWMBO discovered it through a friend of ours who likes it.
I call it Sherlock in a hospital, and my feelings were confirmed when I saw a picture of House's house, with the house number "221B". Briefly, someone has an accident/incident at the beginning (à la Six Feet Under) and is taken into the teaching hospital where Gregory House, a brilliant but very eccentric doctor is the head of diagnostics. He's got a coterie of three young doctors with him, and when the victim^Wpatient is brought in, they all normally kill the patient at least once and bring out the paddles. The graphics of what is going on inside of the victim^W patient are gruesome. House had an accident of some sort when he was a younger drug-addicted doctor, and is lame in one leg. He pops Vicodin like TicTacs, and is grumpy, nasty, manipulative, but brilliant. At the end the patient is normally discharged beaming.
Now after the first season I happened to sit down to watch with HWMBO, who always complains I spend too much time with the computer. I found it interesting, and have continued to watch it for a couple of weeks, sometimes two or three episodes in a night: Sky+ records each daily episode.
My problem is that it is affecting my dreams. I take beta blockers, and one side effect of these pills is to give you vivid dreams. So I wake up in a cold sweat, after some operation or other, and have difficulty getting back to sleep. The dreams often have some medical theme, and they're gruesome. I wouldn't call them nightmares, but they are VERY vivid, and thus are disturbing.
My diagnosis is that House is very bad for my imagination. I must quit, cold turkey. Perhaps I'll start on Vicodin.
I call it Sherlock in a hospital, and my feelings were confirmed when I saw a picture of House's house, with the house number "221B". Briefly, someone has an accident/incident at the beginning (à la Six Feet Under) and is taken into the teaching hospital where Gregory House, a brilliant but very eccentric doctor is the head of diagnostics. He's got a coterie of three young doctors with him, and when the victim^Wpatient is brought in, they all normally kill the patient at least once and bring out the paddles. The graphics of what is going on inside of the victim^W patient are gruesome. House had an accident of some sort when he was a younger drug-addicted doctor, and is lame in one leg. He pops Vicodin like TicTacs, and is grumpy, nasty, manipulative, but brilliant. At the end the patient is normally discharged beaming.
Now after the first season I happened to sit down to watch with HWMBO, who always complains I spend too much time with the computer. I found it interesting, and have continued to watch it for a couple of weeks, sometimes two or three episodes in a night: Sky+ records each daily episode.
My problem is that it is affecting my dreams. I take beta blockers, and one side effect of these pills is to give you vivid dreams. So I wake up in a cold sweat, after some operation or other, and have difficulty getting back to sleep. The dreams often have some medical theme, and they're gruesome. I wouldn't call them nightmares, but they are VERY vivid, and thus are disturbing.
My diagnosis is that House is very bad for my imagination. I must quit, cold turkey. Perhaps I'll start on Vicodin.
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Date: 2014-03-12 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-12 01:56 pm (UTC)We watched every episode of the original run, and I never noticed this detail.
It was a fun show. I have to say that the complete improbability of the workings of the hospital (this team of diagnosticians did every possible procedure themselves; an awful lot of "It must be X, let's do radical therapy Y immediately") wore on me after a while. And I wanted Wilson to stop being friends with House more times than I can count.
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Date: 2014-03-12 02:10 pm (UTC)I have found it formulaic, but somehow it engages my id in ways that result in vivid unpleasant dreams. This is not good for me.
And, while I hadn't articulated it, I guess it's quite unusual for a team such as this to do every single procedure. My experience is that in hospitals you are covered in nurses all the time--they teem with nurses. You hardly ever see one here.
Wilson is Mutt to House's Jeff, or Laurel to House's Hardy.