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• mtpender@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The real villain is the US healthcare system.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly, any normal country doesn’t have patients avoiding the hospital till the bitter end

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If anything they specifically avoided the payment issue most of the time. Having a team of 5 specialists just working on a diagnosis for one patient at a time is extremely expensive and most people (even those with some kind of insurance) wouldn’t be able to afford this. If anything they glossed over this entirely on the show.

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• Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wasn’t it a teaching school? Implied that it was cheaper or even somewhat affordable?

  But yeah I think he was the villain of the show, in some fashion. His own worst enemy, at the very least

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IIRC the clinic was free, but “teaching hospital” just means it’s affiliated with a university med school. My local university hospital is definitely not cheap.

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  • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you look at what he did to everyone who surrounded him, made Chase a paraplegic, bullied Wilson and Cuddy unrelentlessly, drove a car through Cuddy’s living room, made Foreman a lesser doctor than he was destined to be, was part of the reason cutthroat bitch dies, not forgetting the misdiagnosis and the general attitude, yeah… He was the villain of the show

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      made Chase a paraplegic

      Can you elaborate on this one?

      This is what Wikipedia says as a plot summary, which doesn’t really support your interpretation:

      As Chase attempts to biopsy the patient’s rash, the patient suffers another psychotic episode and stabs Chase with a scalpel, lacerating his heart. Chase survives surgery but is left paralyzed. House concludes that the paralysis is caused by a blood clot. Chase regains feeling when surgery is performed to remove the clot that is pressing on his spine, but he faces extensive physical therapy.

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s definitely a take.

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