Paging Dr. Jackass

Everyone else was presenting lists of things they got for Christmas. I hate to follow the trend, so instead this year I'm posting a list of things I have learned from watching House, MD:

• When you go into the hospital, the first three or four diagnoses are always wrong.


• Diagnoses are determined by what treatments almost kill you.


• Office politics don't apply to the smartest people in the office.


• You know you're being handled by an expert if he never visits you and just has his flunkies do all the work.


• Everyone who goes into the hospital has a seizure, even if they only went there for a broken bone.


• You're going to lie.


• Bedside manner can readily be exchanged for brutal sarcasm with few adverse consequences. This also applies to professionalism, and sensitive matters of race and/or gender.


• Surgeries are best monitored audibly, and should be visually blocked by a hand held up to the TV screen to avoid queasiness.

With that all said, this show is fantastic and I've devoured seventeen episodes in the last five days or so. I intend to keep going.