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Nov 30, 2004 · Occam's Razor: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard. A college boy whose low blood pressure does not respond with IV fluids piques House's curiosity.
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- Bryan Singer
- 2004-11-30
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A young man is on the phone asking his boss for a day off on account of a lack of sleep, scratchy throat, and fever. It appears that he is skipping work to spend time with his girlfriend. However, he admits to his girlfriend that he really does have a cough, and she notices he has a rash, too. They start making love, but all of a sudden he starts h...
The patient brings a mucussample to House for examination. He insults the patient and guesses that she's getting fired because her glasses and teeth have recently been worked on. He agrees to give her a full body scan while her insurance is still good. The next patient has a sore throat. House makes him wait. Cuddy comes in an examines the patient....
In addition to being a diagnostician, House also has a double specialty in infectious diseases and nephrology.House has been a doctor for twenty years.In an attempt to make his clinic hours more interesting, House starts calling Cuddy for consults.First time mentioning about Chase's interest in Cameron. Foreman and Chase talk about how attractive she is. Foreman tells Cameron that Chase cannot look at her without thinking about sex.The title of the episode comes from the principle of Occam's razorwhich states that one should not make unnecessary assumptions when drawing conclusions. It does not, like Foreman states, mean that the simplest answer is usually correct. This principle is played with throughout the episode.
As House himself said, pharmacy errors cause thousands of deaths a year, and many more illnesses. However, colchicine poisoning is rather rare.
There is a label on the conference room coffee machine - "Good Coffee - cheaper than Prozac".House is playing Metroid: Zero Mission on a Game Boy Advance SP. However, the details of the game are not consistent. It's playing the wrong soundtrack. When the character rolls up into a ball in t...The small yellow pills with an "L" on one side are actually low-dose aspirin, the type taken on a daily basis as a blood thinner.The scene between Brandon and Mindy at the beginning was considered too explicit. Originally, the producers put a warning at the beginning of the program. However, many stations refused to show the...As the patient's symptoms fill the whiteboard, the lines circling the symptoms keep changing.Although the doctors describe the patient's heartbeat as "ectopic" (i.e. a premature beat followed by a pause) the heart monitor actually shows a perfectly normal rhythm.During the patient's cardiac arrest he had no electrical activity (asystole) on the monitor - meaning this is a non-shockable rhythm - yet he is given a shock to save him.The writing on the whiteboard keeps changing back and forth during some scenes.IMDB users rated the episode an 8.3 with "8" being the most common rating and 23.3% of respondents giving it a "10". It did best with females 18-39 (8.5) and worst with people under the age of 18 (8).TV.com users rated the episode an 8.8. They chose Alexis Thorpe as their Most Valuable Performer.Polite Dissent thought this was the first episode where the medical mystery was plausible.Pharmacy Errors
As House pointed out, "pharmacy errors" (which is not identical to "pharmacy negligence", but negligence is included in errors) kill about 7,000 people in the United States a year. That's much smaller than the number of deaths from "medical mistakes" (again, which includes but is not equal to "medical negligence" or "malpractice) which is closer to 100,000. The most common pharmacy errors are: 1. Misread/illegible prescriptions (which really is a physician problem) 2. Similar looking medicine...
Diagnostic Trials
Once again, House starts treating a patient without confirming a diagnosis. As Cuddy quite correctly points out, this is exceedingly dangerous even in urgent cases. The wrong treatment can be more damaging than allowing the real disease to take its course. And this is a perfect example. The patient's condition abated on its own once he stopped taking his "cough medication". Had House merely waited, the patient would have gotten better. The tests would have come back negative. The matter would...
Wilson:That smugness of yours really is an attractive quality.House:Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain.Cuddy:It's not gonna work. You know why? Because this is fun. You think of something to make me miserable, I think of something to make you miserable... it's a game! And I'm gonna win. Because I go...House:It was so perfect. It was beautiful.Wilson:Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.House:And triteness kicks us in the nuts.A young man collapses after sex with his fiancee and is diagnosed with colchicine poisoning by House and his team. The episode explores the concept of what if House had a patient who would have gotten better on his own.
Flawless instincts and unconventional thinking help earn House great respect, despite his brutal honesty and antisocial tendencies. A question about the ending for Occam's Razor, Season 1 Episode 3. In the ending, House has two pills, one with a letter and one not with one.
Dr. House and his team race to save a young man who may have not one, but two illnesses killing him.
Stream House — Season 1, Episode 3 on Peacock. A collegian collapses after raucous sex with his girlfriend; Dr. House and his team scramble to figure out why as the student's condition...
- Bryan Singer
- November 16, 2004
- Hugh Laurie
House and his team diagnose a college boy with low blood pressure that does not respond to IV fluids. Meanwhile, House faces a personal dilemma with his pain medication and his team.
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