Who Tried to Kill the Kid? | House M.D.

[@anonperson3972]

What he did was actually really important. Somoene needed to go through those pills and make sure the wrong drugs weren't prescribed again. He was the only one who actually cared enough to do it.

[@WestOfEarth]

I don't know if 'cared' is the proper description. He's obsessed with knowing the truth and tying up loose ends. That it helps the kid is only a byproduct.

[@anonperson3972]

@@WestOfEarth The latter seasons did develop his character and that deep down he did care about his patients wellbeing. However, that isn't what he meant. He cared about getting to the bottom of the case, he cared about getting the right answer. That is still caring. Whether the motivation is the puzzle and getting it right or about patient outcomes is secondary, he cared enough to put in the extra work and get the job done.

[@lindathompson3982]

​@@anonperson3972YES.

[@rhiannascureman2185]

​@@WestOfEarthhis obsession showed a level of care. Your comment is incredibly pointless here. He cared about getting to the truth.

[@258thHiGuy]

Doing the right thing is just a side effect of finding the solution

[@geneanthony3421]

Got to love that House clips are still going up over 10 years after the show was off the air.

[@stanleypeters5383]

Great empathetic Doctor older procedural drama for a New Generation

[@geneanthony3421]

@@DavidaVeddar I love the show and I agree it's aged well. I just get so many updates that you can forget how long it's been off the air.

[@DavidaVeddar]

@@geneanthony3421 you’re right- SO glad it happened pre- Covid

[@GottaWannaDance]

So is M•A•S•H

[@DarcMagikian]

The clips are still going up after 10 years is because they repost the same clips over and over again, with a slightly different title every time. It's so people will keep clicking on them and they earn money.

[@MsJimmysgirl]

I love how razer focused House was on the fact that Brandon was given the wrong medication by the pharmacist and finally proved it.

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

Occams razor ? 😕 The term you were looking for is "Laser-focussed" 😒

[@NoobMicesters]

​​​​@@peterfitzpatrick7032tbf, razor focused is also an expression, its defintelly less used than laser focused. Razor sharp focused is the full expression, and it means you're fully focused on what you're doing while also being aware of your surroundings. (Like a razor) while Laser focused means again you're wholly focused on the task but not anything else. (like a laser)

[@nunya3163]

Except that the pharmacist was correct, he was taking illicit drugs on the side.

[@WlatPziupp]

@@nunya3163 Doing MDMA twice is harmless 99.9% of the time, someone screwed up the pills as shown at the end of the clip

[@Mant111]

@@nunya3163 He said he only took ecstasy "twice", which wouldn't have had enough of a payload to affect his body that much. Someone prescribed him the wrong medicine, which he proved in the end.

[@deathknightrevan]

It is actually scary how realistic the bit with the cough drops is. Thousands upon thousands of different kinds of pills and some of them look almost identical even though they do totally different things.

[@MacabreAfterparty]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ shhhhhhh

[@lindaheath784]

Would be good if all MD s,nurses and especially all home health nurses saw this show before they graduated. It's a shame how close some pills look alike. Voice of experience. Another problem is when a patient goes to different MDs It's amazing the "mess" they can get themselves into. It appears some MDs don't care what other MDs ordered.

[@cbalan777]

This is why the stuff they used to euthanize animals is now bright pink, because vets have accidentally killed animals before. by giving them the wrong injection.

[@MrOlympuse410]

do prescription drugs in the USA not come in individual trays clearly marked with the medicine name? seems foolish to introduce potential human error with the filling of a bottle.

[@sarahprice659]

I sometimes have a bad reaction if my meditation form is changed. Taking tablets? Okay! Capsules? Not so much… What’s worse is that different pharmacies carry different versions of generics, which of course, look different. 😮

[@thomasharrington1477]

"wouldn't hurt you to be wrong every once in a while" "what you don't care about these people?" that perfectly sums up House, he's always right because he has to be.

[@TheOneSeer]

Not has to be, needs to be. House is autistic. He cares more about the solution then how to get there.

[@Chrinik]

To be fair, every episode of house is the team (including him) being wrong for 40 minutes until House has an epiphany.

[@nunya3163]

@@Chrinik And sometimes he is wrong to the point that the patient dies.

[@gridwreckgamer6254]

wasnt there the ep with the autistic kid where it shows house isnt autistic, just wants to be@@TheOneSeer

[@haddy106]

​@@TheOneSeer in fairness he gets 1 patient a week, if they die its a pretty substantial blemish on his record

[@princessleai]

I think it’s funny that he still found out the difference of pills, and Cameron didn’t even have to tell him

[@kafkaesk_]

Because House rejected Cameron's proposal, she was trying to torture him with this stupid way.

[@leachy114]

It also made him feel better than his drugs do

[@polynominastiria6877]

Love the way that when he see's the two medicines proving he's right, he throws his head back in the same way he does when he takes his painkillers. Showing how addicted he is to solving the cases as it give him the same euphoria as the medicine. ( EDIT: I'm still receiving notifications for this comment months after I wrote it, most of the comments saying it's reading too deep. I'd like to clarify that over the seasons specifically focusing on House's addiction it is shown how much his drug addiction is tied to his ability to solve cases, specifically season 3 ep1(?) I think. Over many episodes it is clear that House goes FAR beyond the call of reason and legality in order to solve cases and prove himself right. In fact half the show is about himself proving he is right in order to validate his chronic addiction. This "reading into" the specific head movement in the clip is not an isolated event, over many episodes you can see him make the same movement both when taking pills and when uttering the final line that solves the case and diagnoses the illness. Sometimes you can even see him in the diagnostics room when the team are suggesting diseases, he'll tilt his head back partially in an almost tasting sense, trying to see if the given explanation fits the case and is satisfying enough to sate his addiction. Often when that first initial diagnosis is proven wrong he'll jump back to the pills because the euphoria of being "right" immediately wears off. NOW STOP COMMENTING! Edit 2: it has been 8 months. I am still hit with reply notifications regularly. I am resigned to my fate.

[@Officialmryuck]

Ive watched all seasons back to back since this show has options for seasons on DVD. This is one of the best shows ever IMHO.

[@Tao_Tology]

Talk about seeing what you want to see, there was no head 'throwing' back. He was sitting into a more relaxed posture now that he had solved the mystery. Yes I know you are going to disagree.

[@Officialmryuck]

​What's even crazier is this show came out 8+ years ago yet these comments are just 2 days old 🤔

[@bigbay1159]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Reported for spam

[@seatofblack6032]

@@Officialmryuck This video came out three days ago

[@scottsommer9843]

Lesson here: NEVER EVER EVER try to play doctor when someone you love is in the hospital. The mother was absolutly in the wrong here and literally almost killed him. Any wayward mediction could mix what is already in his system and cause more issues.

[@smkh2890]

The hospital needs to know what the patient has taken, but then takes over and whatever the patient was prescribed by their GP is discarded.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Yup. I accidentally took my own antidepressant when last I was at the hospital and I immediately realised my mistake. Wanted to throw up or pump my stomach or something lmao. Luckily my parents gave the nurses my meds and they squared everything that they needed to away so it was fine.

[@sleepynoodles6425]

Exactly. The doctors need to know anything and everything about the patient

[@flickcentergaming680]

​@@sleepynoodles6425 Hence the saying "tell the cops nothing, but tell the paramedics everything."

[@marieguillou8808]

Never try to play doctor when you're not one and above 8.

[@OynxWolf11]

"Come on, no one's going to get mad. I just want to know, WHO tried to kill the Kid" That's what I like about House. He just states the facts, screw the pleasantries.

[@samstromberg5593]

THANK YOU I know it's rude and whatever but honestly people need to grow up It's refreshing to see someone who doesn't sugarcoat things, people are insensitive and fake and it's quite frankly stupid

[@calvin22]

One can only be blunt when they are irreplaceable ...

[@samstromberg5593]

@@calvin22 Or if the people around them have a bigger intelligence than ego Which unfortunately is true very very little of the time

[@robertframe7349]

The pharmacy sold him knock off cough medicine.

[@samstromberg5593]

@@robertframe7349 Well Yeah We saw the episode too

[@NEPAAlchey]

The pharmacist's confidence is so infuriating. Not to mention the lack of attention his family paid to his medicine.

[@Beowulf95]

Well his family couldn't tell difference between goat and cough medicine Although why you need prescription drug for cough seems absurd like the guy may have lung cancer or whatever Anyways, the pharmacist had to fake confidence since he would get sued to oblivion

[@shanecoyle3676]

The look almost identical, unlikely the family would know the pharmacist should have tho. But there are probably 500 formulations of most medications on the market its a hard job to memorize them all.

[@novaiscool1]

I can't even remember the names of all my medication I've ever taken, let alone the ones my family take. And I don't know anything about what these pills look like before I'm given them, so if a similar looking pill is given instead how am I to tell them apart.

[@jetsettech8804]

​@@shanecoyle3676they don't memorize them all. They look it up

[@theatog]

I have two different pharmacist friends who had no connection to each other both confirmed to me that the troupe is real: a lot of pharmacists think they are better than doctors XD

[@namfle4922]

Proving stupid, irrational people wrong is one of life's true joys.

[@MCNarret]

More like a curse.

[@guyforlogos]

Problem is, they’re so stupid and irrational that even when you do, they scoff at you for it.

[@SaltySeattleCyclist]

Two votes!!

[@monikamorningstarshadlo4129]

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristodd reaction but I don’t judge

[@Mole-Esther]

​@RepentandbelieveinJesusChristWhat makes your God real when there are older ones with more followers? If God is all knowing then why does he need to test us if he already knows the answer? If God is all forgiving why did he not forgive Adam and eve? If lucifer was gods favorite and he knows everything then why did he continue to be gods favorite? If he was an angel and perfect and god make him then why did he turn so evil? If God made us perfect then why are we so driven and guided by emotion? Why do we tend to lean to hate certain groups of people or feel superior to them? Why are we so vain and arrogant? Who made the devil If he is like he is? Most Every culture has a religion because they believed they needed an all power figure to create then and the earth but if you need that to create then who created God? The Bible believed the earth is flat but the scientific method proved it wrong. People believe in religion because they need to know what happens when we die.they need to know they can go there. They need to know that there loved ones can go somewhere amazing and they can meet them again. That they can be forgived and loved no matter what. They need to know that the good will be rewarded and the bad will be punished. If you listen during a sermon you will realize God is not good. He is toxic. He tests our love and belief in him because he loves us. There will be people that will push him away or think of you as ridiculous but don't listen to him because what you believe is right and he loves you. He created you. He helps you. He gave you the strength to get through life. It wasn't you who accomplished on your own who fought and was smart.

[@alijaffery7735]

What Chase should have asked was to see the Colchicine pills also. That’s when he would have found the colchicine pills looking similar to the cough medicine.

[@ashleycnossen3157]

Yes I never liked Chase, I felt he wasn't thorough a lot of the time.

[@RealCutieMutie]

Probably what Cameron was thinking in the end, he was sent there to confirm if the medication given was wrong but all he did was basically "Small and yellow? Close enough for me!"

[@Tazazak]

Didn’t House specify that there were hundreds of colchicine pills on the market though? That’s what he was going through at the end, all of the different gout meds. So you are saying Chase should have sat there and did what House before they saved him.

[@alijaffery7735]

@@Tazazak Yes but a store usually would only have like 3-5

[@mikeyisbombable]

haha House forgetting Brandon's name so Cameron has to keep reminding him 😂

[@jadedbrad]

❤I want a rude brilliant Dr who forgets my name. I know a guy who is dying because of a lazy nice guy doctor. Did I mention how nice he is?

[@jr-ex8vd]

Who?

[@DragnYT]

​@@jadedbradBlud what 💀

[@Songbirdstress]

Dys. Certain dys makes it difficult to remember names.

[@saltyk9869]

Forget? Did he know it in the first place?

[@MaximumP0tential]

S1 was actually one of the seasons that had the nicest version of house

[@josend]

It was him at his most professional. He was cold but not over top

[@libRteedude]

Yeah, that's one reason I preferred the early-era House episodes. They had him as cold and sarcastic, but not an outright misanthrope who crapped over everybody for little to no good reason. The later seasons made him unbearably antagonistic and hostile, and it killed a lot of the enjoyment factor.

[@3DSDF]

@@libRteedudeyeah. It started getting uncomfortable when he would act exceptionally hostile to everyone when he was in a bad mood in the later seasons. Yeah he was self-destructive in the early seasons, but they had him loudly proclaiming to staff members that he’s sleeping with Cuddy.

[@jjsmthr]

@@libRteedudefist seasons were more like everyday sitcom-like-comedy (but smartly written), and later seasons were full drama genre Netflix series. Nothing wrong with both, just different taste things.

[@Roguefem76]

Very true. The makers of the show seemed determined to keep topping themselves in how outrageous they made him, and it was counterproductive because the audience just wanted snarky genius House. We didn't need or want whackjob edgelord House.

[@tyfyh622]

that's why I love House. He sticks to his point. "Never should have doubted myself!" because he's right. Why? Because! ..but in a very slim chance he isn't, he proves it. He will do anything as to open all bottles of medicine in the pharmacy.

[@lousialb8962]

A lot of people think that House is arrogant about his intelligence. (Is it arrogance when it's true?) I think there's something else going on here: it's about his instincts and intuition (for lack of better terms). It's common to geniuses. Einstein, for example, said he "knew" something unequivocally, then had to do the tedious work of proving it. Most of us methodically work out way toward finding the solution; geniuses get the solution first, then have to prove it to the rest of us.

[@FutureDeep]

He's always right. The second time. If he always held on to his first theory all his patients would be dead.

[@lousialb8962]

@@FutureDeep Ah, but he DOESN'T hold onto the first theory (hence, the space for a second, third, or fourth). So he's right to trust that he will eventually get it right.

[@Sumguyinavan_]

He deduced the Occam's Razor that someone screwed up was the simplest answer. But he should have mentioned Hanlon's Razor as well as it fit the narrative and the solution- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[@DiamondkeyOwO]

Everytime I see someone mention Hanlon's Razor I can only think of one thing. Hanlon must have been a real malicious guy.

[@cloudyskies-exe]

@@DiamondkeyOwO but he was probably just stupid

[@thisisnotachannel]

Ignorance fits the bill there, too. Often times... at least in my experience, ignorance is mistaken for malice as well.

[@catstac2542]

​@@cloudyskies-exeCan you elaborate on what you wrote?

[@jelly434]

I'm too old to believe in Halon's Razor -_-

[@rob12449]

the ending with house sitting on the floor checking the meds is so cool, great writing, and great tune to go with it!

[@carlosdanger7907]

"Make a note! I should never doubt myself :)" "I'm sure you'll remember...." Best duo ever 😂

[@thecommanderincheif1]

When you tell the pharmacist to refill the bottle it proves nothing because doing a refill does NOT mean he will do the mistake again, especially with all these eyes watching him

[@thepope98]

The refill was to get some to show the parents on the assumption they would look different from the ones he took, but the twist at the end is they looked very similar anyway.

[@thecommanderincheif1]

@thepope98 It's true, but still, it won't prove the pharmacist is wrong unless you have some pills left from the previous bottle. 🥴

[@PhrontDoor]

Sometimes the source will be wrong. So you can reach for X and it's been filled with Y instead, so you are dispensing Y.

[@thecommanderincheif1]

@@PhrontDoor That's experience talking 👌

[@Scaven03]

Let’s get house on the phone alone with the pharmacist, that’ll work.

[@julieannelovesbooks]

And this is why I’m very happy with the blister packages we get in the Netherlands. Unless something happened while packaging them in the factory (which really doesn’t happen), you can be 100% sure of what you’re taking and the exact dose. No pharmacy screwups. At least, not this specific type of screwup.

[@scottw6704]

Some pharmacies here in the US dispense them that way, and because I take so many medications, I am grateful.

[@rundamoonsong]

Here in Australia as well, we have blister packs, it is very rare to have pills in a bottle.

[@Thi-Nguyen]

@@scottw6704me too. As a former pharmacy technician, I remember that we usually didn’t dispense blister packs except for inpatient use. I always wondered why we wouldn’t just use blister packs for everything because it’s so much easier to count, dispense and to ensure safety and integrity. It would especially make controlled substances easier to manage as well.

[@TheNobnob]

Same in France

[@52flyingbicycles]

As soon as he whipped out the pills at the pharmacy I thought “and what do gout pills look like?”

[@techissus7449]

Comerade cora commenter

[@maryfelix1546]

Can you imagine if we had doctors as thorough as Dr. house.

[@pasques]

House is a fictional character. Every doctor you'll ever meet is perfectly fine. As a matter of fact, many of them could even be just as arrogant as House.

[@undercoverg.o.d.]

Doctors like House would never exist cause no one in their right mind would hire a doctor like him, because a lot of people would sue him and the hospital in the blink of an eye.

[@heavystarch100]

They would sabotage his career! Because shitty doctors power this crappy American medical machine!!

[@billtalent1]

we might but they would be fired instantly so who knows

[@invictus6176]

@@undercoverg.o.d. Well I have no doubt people LIKE House exist they would HAVE to restrain themselves unless the Clients signed specific Wavers to his "Unique" ways of doing medicine ig lol

[@megatron111184]

I can hear Dr. Mike screaming "HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT"

[@ISayThingz]

The best one… “STOP ACTING LIKE YOU KNEW ABOUT RACCOON POOP!” 😂

[@zerocool4835]

I watched some of his videos , him saying that soo often has stuck with me too

[@MadilynnBrock-f5w]

I like how Wilson is smiling at 5:01. It’s funny that in the end he’s always right.

[@JohnnyBooi]

Yeap, and he's calming down the patient's parents too to house's antics

[@JoeyDecay]

I just love that he doesn't feel satisfied until he absolutely knows the answer. The first 3 seasons were so good.

[@normaharrington6246]

It happened to me. I was give the wrong medication by the pharmacy. I was about to take it when I noticed a letter on my new pills. Called the pharmacy and was told not to take and bring the pills back. The pills were for high blood pressure which I don't have. Pharmacy was grateful for noticing their error.

[@CatsinHats4]

Almost the opposite thing happened to my mother. My mother had Hashimoto's and needed her thyroid medication. Every time she picked it up she opened the bottle right there at the counter and checked the pills. One day she pours some of the pills out and they're large, blue ovals. They are typically very small, round, white pills (she couldn't swallow large pills at all). She tells the pharmacist "this isn't my medication" the pharmacist says "yes it is". My mother, who has been taking this medication for decades, explains the difference in the pills and how this clearly isn't her medication. Pharmacist says "the pill you're describing is the on-brand. This is the off-brand version. It's the same drug. It's also cheaper". My mother tells the pharmacist how it's covered by insurance anyway and so she doesn't have to pay for it regardless. She asks the pharmacist to go double check for her actual medication. The pharmacist refuses to double check and just says that they were out which is why he filled it with the off-brand. My mother goes on to tell him about her VERY serious sulfa allergy (which was in the pharmacy system) and how she has cancer and it was imperative that she have her actual medication. They went back and forth for about 10 minutes before a pharmacist that my mother had spoken with many times with comes out. He asks what's wrong and she explains it. Good pharmacist tells the other dude to go check the off-brand medication's ingredients and then goes to double check for my mother's actual medication. Turns out that they DID have her medication but it would take about 10min to fill. The pharmacist who tried to give my mother the off-brand pills was just too lazy to go back and mix the stuff together so he just filled her prescription with the off brand without even checking her records. Also turns out that the blue, oval pills DID have sulfa in it and would have killed my mother. Like within minutes kind of killed. Moral of the story check your pills at the counter. My mom did it religiously the entire time she was alive and I never truly understood why until that happened. It's very important to know what your medication looks like.

[@mikelheron20]

You should made a formal complaint. There is absolutely no excuse for an error of that sort. Their procedures should have been audited and someone disciplined.

[@kianaone2610]

One of my husband's friends was given the wrong medication as well. He needed blood pressure medication, he was given Shcitzophrania medication instead. The prescription still said his medication so he took them and ended up having major issues. Police and ambulence had to be called as he was found in boxers face first in a pile of snow in January. It's believed that the schizophrenia medication had an adverse reaction to the beer he had. No one knows exactly how long he was in the snow for either.

[@LovinglfDesigns]

You can look up your pills online by their description and the letters on it. I always do if my pills look different.

[@normaharrington6246]

@mikelheron20 I should have. You're correct. Looking back, I was too accommodating. I could tell when I went back that the people working there were nervous about the whole thing.

[@myrealname9656]

House was one of those shows that actually showed the hospital failing at their jobs....or just in general of the hospital industry failing..but of course the whole issue of the complexity of medication makes it fun.

[@owenleal]

You can tell this is season one because House is acting jovially, somewhat professionally and is only mildly sarcastic, as opposed to later seasons where he has a psychotic break every other episode and goes on angry Rick Sanchez rants.

[@ravenID429]

Do you know what a psychotic break is? And what rants lol

[@owenleal]

@@ravenID429 so youre telling me there arent like 5 episodes across the late seasons were House straight up loses his grasp of reality? And yes he does go on angry rants extremely frequently. Thats like his whole thing.

[@libRteedude]

House: "Wilson, *urp* I turned myself into a diagnostician, Wilson! I'm Dr. HOOOOOOOUSE!"

[@xxxCrackerJack501xxx]

​@@ravenID429he literally had Vicodin induced hallucinations and couldn't tell them apart from reality in like season 5 or 6, as for the rants I'm sure you'll find countless examples in these clips

[@TheSongwritingCat]

It's almost shocking how relatively kind he is to the family when he asks them about the medication.

[@DavidaVeddar]

I started watching these little synopsis of episodes and got so addicted I streamed all 8 SEASONS - this is one of my all time favorite shows ever and was gutted by the series finale- brilliant

[@thedavidalopez]

8 episodes 😮

[@rayquaza_is_da_boi8661]

@@thedavidalopez I think it was supposed to say seasons not episodes lol

[@DavidaVeddar]

@@thedavidalopez Oh my God all 8 SEASONS and was gutted by the last episode 🤦🏽‍♀️ sorry

[@shydreameress264]

Did the same haha I use to watch House when it was on tv when I was a kid (long time ago now, I bet I didn't understand any of the jokes because I didn't remember the show being so hilarious). I don't watch many shows but I can still safely that this show is amazing and still very watchable even all these years later (keep from your eyes the old cellphones tho xD)

[@Truvidien]

I like how Wilson is smiling at 5:01

[@sophiat8250]

thats his husband in there

[@AuthorZaraHoffman]

I always look at the description of my pills on a bottle-especially because my medicine keeps changing its look. But this episode always made me paranoid and made me tell other people in my family to always look as well

[@mentalrebllion1270]

I do the same thing, especially now that I’m trying to find a balance to my psyche meds. Even between different levels of dosage they change in color and sometimes shape so I look them up to make sure they are correct. Probably not the most well adjusted reaction but I have a long history of negative reactions to psyche meds that are supposed to help me and been misdiagnosed and even tricked into taking a higher dosage of pills than I was comfortable with so yeah, I check descriptions now. It’s a nightmare how many different shapes and sizes and designs they come in though. Hard to track even when technically the only thing different is the amount sometimes.

[@sarahholland2600]

My relative was given the wrong psyche meds twice purely because she had the same first name as another patient on the ward & the Nurse was too lazy to look at last names. Luckily they looked v different & she refused to take them. 🙄

[@ZianaSue]

For someone who claims not to care about his patients, he is very dedicated to getting them better even after he has supposedly cured them. For example, the hunting down similar-looking medicines to figure out which one he was actually taking. Now I want to see the rest of this particular patient's story. EDIT: Thanks for the likes and the discussion. It's nice to compare opinions with those different from my own.

[@MikeBrin96]

Being obsessive doesnt equate to being compassionate

[@alex84632]

I think it’s been said a few times in the series that he cares about the puzzles, not the patients. It just so happens that solving the puzzles usually helps the patients.

[@ZianaSue]

@@MikeBrin96 I don't consider House obsessive in regards to finding diagnoses for people. Addicted to various pain meds? Sure. Obsessed with his job? No.

[@ZianaSue]

@@alex84632 That's not really what I was referring to. However, yes, solving the medical puzzles helps the patients.

[@MrDaneHoward]

He’s obsessed with solving puzzles. Both are a relief from his pain, when he doesn’t have puzzles, he abuses the meds even harder.

[@bogdog999]

My youngest brother dropped dead in the shower of heart failure. An autopsy found traces of chemicals that proved he died of repeatedly doing Ecstasy.

[@cherryblossom7944]

I am so sorry to hear that. My heart goes out to you and your family.

[@CoachJohnMcGuirk]

LOL very true story there, for sure not written by an 11 year old...

[@commoguru]

@@sally5732 Exactly, not to mention the dubious purity & content of illicit street drugs.

[@dysdrone8952]

​@cherryblossom7944 haha nice, I see what you did there

[@thejmc4074]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@lowellriggsiam]

Don't develop gout, it's quite painful. I'm 52 and first had an attack at 21. I started way too early.

[@ForsythJC]

I got in it my right foot during my early thirties. It was the worst pain I've ever felt (and I had my appendix explode inside me). I literally begged the doctor to cut my foot off to stop the agony. Gaut is absolutely MISERABLE!

[@ODST_SSGT]

I had a friend who had given birth and had gout, she said the gout was 10 times worse.

[@lowellriggsiam]

@@ForsythJC I can't speak for you, but almost of my issues appear in my wrists and my knees. It can make life difficult.

[@mariansmith7694]

My husband's first gout attack was at least partially due to a blood pressure medication, which made the gout much more painful than regular gout.

[@ACAB.forcutie]

I feel like we don't teach guys how to take care of their health, or maybe teach them the importance of it? Idk, just, you know the stereotype, the old dude who's definitely having a heart attack yet refuses to go to the hospital. And how married men are more likely to live longer because their wives are basically their live in nurses and personal chefs. My best friend is a very liberal dude, and I legit have to drag him to the doctor when he's actually sick. I don't get it. I have a condition that will most likely reduce my lifespan, and it seems like he's wanting to join me shortly after. 😔

[@Onlera]

And to think how much of the issue could’ve been avoided if the mother just didn’t go behind the doctors backs to give him pills they weren’t aware of. I know it’s part of the complexity of the case, but it DOES happen in real life that people thinking they know best or hissing things from docs makes things WAY more difficult or complicated.

[@daniellaalouf]

This show is actually teaching me about the real meds I take. Thank you for another banger 👌🏼❤️

[@commodoor6549]

It's a big mistake to take your medical advice from a television show.

[@G.r.e.g.g.l.e.s]

​@@commodoor6549 A fact-checked medical show? When you can research medicine after watching?

[@commodoor6549]

@@G.r.e.g.g.l.e.s I think I misunderstood your comment... sorry.

[@halotoro5972]

@@commodoor6549 What? Recognition of a mistake and then an apology? On the internet?! POLICE!

[@FF8Irvine_Fan]

There's a surprising amount of accurate medical info mixed in with the nonsensical jargon.

[@thesilversurfer7136]

I love House. I wish all doctors spoke like him instead of the fake caring.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

He does care. That’s why he’s helping people. He just doesn’t care to be nice about it.

[@seaglass22]

Many moons ago I was in hospital here in London. The nurse brings me my medication in one of those little plastic beakers. I look at it and I say: "This is not my pill. Similar... but different." Her reply: "Oh, don't make a fuss! Take it just for this once!!!" I kid you not! (I didn't take it, obviously, and reported her)

[@eddhernandez3084]

Well done

[@JoshSweetvale]

All nurses are sociopaths.

[@Swnsasy]

I can literally go all the way back to the first season and watch all over again... Loved me some House...

[@rawikirran]

until the season he started hitting the Dean for me

[@shydreameress264]

​@@rawikirranWhat about when he hit the Dean's house?

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

I love House because (for the most part) it isn't afraid to get into the weeds. It trusts the audience a lot.

[@justincase7848]

The casual banter in this show is beyonf brilliant

[@saberasurovy2984]

Look at Wilson, enjoying the drama just standing there, quiet as a mouse. Love him.

[@D._Eath]

" Occam's Razor : The simplest explanation is almost always 'somebody screwed up' . "

[@justinchristoph3725]

I thought about being a pharmacy tech at one point as I only needed a high school diploma. But I joined the military instead and went into another line of work. Sometimes I wonder...

[@NewWesternFront]

what line of work. and you can always go for it still

[@toriyaki27]

it’s actually so scary how pills looks similar to each other. I used to work in a pharmacy and all medication bottles should actually tell you what each pill looks like even if there are letters. I always check that before I take any medication. you can also google to make sure it’s the right pill

[@QueenShireen]

Love how the Pharmasist from the hospital is just standing there like, I know House, I'm used to this.

[@jamielancaster01]

All he needed to do was reference a PDR and he would’ve found exactly which medicine it was that was small, yellow and round with no letters.

[@BlackSeranna]

The mother had already given all the pills by the time House asked her, so he had no frame of reference. Also, a lot of people don’t pay attention to what is on their pills, they just take what’s in the bottle (I have been around a lot of old people that can’t even name their meds and some had no idea they were being double dosed by different doctors)

[@rebeccahicks2392]

@@BlackSeranna He did have a frame of reference, though. He knew what the pills he was looking for looked like. The reason for physically searching through pill bottles was it makes for good television.

[@juneledell6983]

there goes the script!

[@mohammedmughal6644]

‘Make a note. I should never doubt myself…..’ ‘I think you’ll remember…..’ Wilson really was the perfect foil for House

[@xanderkane9202]

What about Aluminum foil ?

[@anthonyC214]

In the US, the pharmacist is also a doctor. While not a Doctor of Medicine ,but Doctor of Pharmacy or Pharm D. Every pharmacy must have a Pharm D on duty along with assistants or techs working with him/her

[@spikesgirl9371]

Nope. The pharmacist were all grandfathered in and you do not have to have a pharm D on duty at all times.

[@persuasiv84persona]

"Page Dr. Occam, he'd wanna hear this" :D

[@zenkalt]

I like how two IDENTICAL looking pills for two DIFERENT types of health problems are ONLY distinguished by a single small insignificant looking detail that can easily be missed. What a great way to make a product where a single misunderstanding can be lethal.

[@Mant111]

That detail might be small and insignificant to normal people, but the pharmacist/supplier is supposed to pay attention to that. Having or not having a big L on each pill is a big deal.

[@mayaenglish5424]

To be fair, there are millions of different types of pills and only so many colors and swallowable shapes lol. 😂

[@pamjames9077]

A great episode and a great show. I still watch it. Thank you for showing us these clips!

[@electric_dream_machine]

You know House's latest theory is right when the CGI finally kicks in to show how it works 😂

[@skildude]

A PDR would have made his search so much easier. Round Yellow pill and the drugs name and you'd find the drug in seconds instead of wasting a pharmacists time and touching every pill in the hospital. Also, The drug store pharmacist could have easily looked for the drug on his shelf.

[@Laughing_Angel8832]

"Make a note, i should never doubt myself" "I think you'll remember it"

[@iloveplasticbottles]

"Every day, cells die" I cri everi tim 😢

[@Legba85]

2:06. The House way of patient treatment.

[@lunawolfking1340]

ever since i watched this episode i always pay attention to what my meds look like so im sure i get the right thing!

[@yyndsai]

Love the episodes when they concentrated on patients more than personal feelings

[@m.r.jarrell3725]

Brandon has a great gig on Rookie:Feds now!

[@scarredface2684]

This might take a few weeks to edit, I have a suggestion...from Pilot til last episode that Dr. Chase had eureka moments and helped solved the case 😅

[@wobby1268]

There's an excellent video on KZbin like that right now, titled "Chase Becoming House Over The Years."

[@The-Entelechy]

it's so funny that he goes for the simplest explanation, but takes the worst solution possible when he could have just asked the kid what the medicine looked like instead of spending hours opening bottles. I guess that type of obsession is part of the thrill when you want to go at it alone.

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Pretty sure he knew the kid’s description of “round, yellow, and with a letter” and was looking at all the pills that contained the chemical he was looking for until he found it.

[@The-Entelechy]

@@nicholaslewis8594 I don't think he ever got that info cause he wasn't in the room when the kid said that. And I don't think Cameron/Chase would have said anything especially with how the scenes are spliced simultaneously. Plus I think it's more in line with House to obsessively look through every pill

[@chakatfirepaw]

At that point they knew that the pills he took did indeed match the cough medicine he was supposed to be taking in appearance. The time spent opening bottles was to see if there was a brand of the wrong medication that matched. (Of course, he would have actually been looking through a pill reference. There are ones even designed for a reverse lookup so that you can try and identify unknown pills.)

[@andyaskew1543]

Wouldn't be much of a show then...

[@The-Entelechy]

@@andyaskew1543 yea I like the scene and show. It's just a funny thing to see between House's beliefs and his actions.

[@kitkatmccabe]

This happened at my local pharmacy they gave a nursing home the wrong medication for a number of patients so they had to call in all the prescriptions they had given out that day and the day before as some of the prescriptions had been made up the day before. I had to wait over 3hrs for my brothers prescription as he needed to start it that day it was a mess some people had been waiting for over 5hrs for theirs

[@dusk4974]

I'm a pharmacy tech, and I do filling. We have specific locations and names for these bottles. Carefully put back to each location, we also have descriptions of the drug we will be filling. The shape, exact color, letters and numbers or even brand names. A picture can be seen by the pharmacist on his or her screen. Screw ups happen. I accidentally grabbed five boxes of the correct amount of eye drops, and one that was a bigger amount. My pharmacist caught it and told me. So I adjusted where everything sat on the shelf until it was all correct. I should've caught it, one box was slightly bigger than the rest. I'm in the learning stage since I'm newer to the field. But we always always ALWAYS ask. If you are at all concerned about the medication being a different type to what you were previously given, ask us. It may be a new brand, so new numbers. It could be a recent design change by your main manufacturer. It never hurts to double check. Just ask us why it looks different and we can tell you why. We want to know these things so we can ensure you get your meds.

[@jeannin.wallace2795]

You know its the 1 or 2nd season when Foreman has hair 😂

[@not_really_here2379]

Omg he was coughing. Well good thing you’re at a HOSPITAL with DOCTORS and MEDICATION that they know isn’t wrong.

[@yechielyosef]

I've watched the entire show all the way through (like a vicodin addict) 5 times now

[@Dularr]

The big recommendation is to bring your medication with you to the hospital. Then only take the medication under the direction of your doctor. It will save you money not having the hospital markup.

[@joansamuels3241]

If you get admitted to the hospital, they go thru your belongings. The nurse or aide lists the things they are taking away. You sign the sealed envelope or bag and it's returned to you upon discharge. Cash, credit cards, checkbook goes to the safe at the Cashier Medications and any oral product, including tic tacks, Tums, and lactase pills are held in Pharmacy and returned upon discharge. Your socks, underwear, pjs, robe are fine to keep in your room. The hospital must track and control all of the medications you take when under their care. They will provide your usual daily medications..

[@Dularr]

@@joansamuels3241 where is that? I've never done that.

[@KristenK78]

@@joansamuels3241I’ve never had a hospital take away or secure valuables, or anything else. They might go to that extreme if they suspect that’s where the problem is, in terms of the patient self-medicating inappropriately, but that is not the default.

[@julianjaffe8739]

I take 1 mg clonodine and seroquel 25 mg pills every night and they look nearly identitcal except the clonodine is slightly lighter in color and a bit more rounded whereas the seroquel is a shade darker and more flat. I can't take them in the dark or I won't know which one is which.

[@joefarmer4465]

We live in a swirl of madness Dr. House understands so we'll.

[@heavystarch100]

I love how he kills someone once or twice before curing them!😂😂

[@erin-laura]

@6:20 You mean you should never GOUT yourself. 🤭

[@bladester0128]

Its better to actually be right than to just think youre right, important lesson to know and House knows it

[@michaelharris8598]

Hundreds of drugs out there with dozens of variants. To be a pharmacy tech in my state requires over 1,000 contact hours of training. To be a pharmacist requires 5 years of college minimum. To put it mildly my friend from high school wanted into the pharmacy program. She didn't get the grades, so she dropped out and became a chemical engineer.

[@ReneeBamber-vv6mz]

That moment where house finds the pills made me cry

[@Robi2009]

That's why I love that where I live medicine is sold in labeled packages, so the risk of getting the potentially life-threatening poison is reduced to minimal

[@ShadowBeetle]

4:00 "-You are a little negative" Madam, you almost kill your kid, why dont you sit this one out...?

[@niamaria8317]

House is such a great actor 👏🏽

[@pjteves1]

Hugh Laurie

[@Plethorality]

​@@pjteves1is a great actor.

[@bryaneberly3588]

tell your doctor EVERYTHING

[@Theeater126]

At 4:22 , the pills chase is holding don't have a letter on them, showing that they are the gout medication instead of the cough medication. I know they figure that out later when talking to the kid, but never noticed during the pharmacy scene till now.

[@DrCureAging]

This is insane. I'm a medical student, and all these cases feel like answering UWORLD questions except even harder than uworld

[@fluffy_mcflooferson4635]

"The prescription said 'cough medicine'" said no pharmacist ever.

[@jimiewilliams7623]

I haven't noticed the actress who plays the redhead who gave him the wrong medicine, since she played Angela Viracco, in The Last Dragon. Love that flick.

[@redwren4182]

If House could have just been with his patient, he'd have gotten that ever-craved solved mystery euphoria like everyone else.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

The fact that they kept saying "cough medicine" instead of a specific name made the sequence not make much sense. The pharmacist said if it said cough medicine then that's what I gave but no prescription would be written as "cough medicince" and let the pharmacist pick which one.

[@Solitaire001]

I'm going to take a guess that it was for legal reasons they couldn't mention the specific brand name medication in the show. One option might have been to mention the specific generic medication name rather than using a brand name. Like saying "Acetaminophen" instead of brand name "Tylenol" (per Wikipedia). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@kam0073]

House: Remind me never to doubt myself. Wilson: I think you’ll remember 😂😂😂

[@thatguylance45]

4:20 “ah, Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.”

[@rebekahlikesmusic2723]

💀💀💀

[@kittygirl_thetortie498]

Im a doctor practising in malaysia. We have a blanket rule in malaysia to never dispense or ingest any loose pills. Medicines we get in malaysia all come in blister packages with the medicine name and dosage printed at the back on the aluminium foil of the blister package and some meds like antibiotics, medications for chronic illness like hypertension, diabetes, autoimmune illness etc even comes in boxes of 30 pills with medicine information leaflet. Our health ministry decided on this practise long long ago for this very reason i.e. to avoid pharmaceutical mix up such as this.

[@annalisek]

In Poland it's very similiar. You don't go to pharmacy with a presciption and your own previous box for medicine refill. You go to pharmacy, give a prescription to a pharmacist and get your medicines in blisters, small paper boxes with certain amount of blisters inside (like to 2-3, if the medicine is supposed to be taken for like a month) or small plastic boxes with medicine name on it. Each time you get new blisters or boxes. In pharmacies you can get small boxes into which you get put your medicines, if you take pills at certain times of a day - still you need to get the pills out of the blisters and into the separtion box.

[@robertparker6280]

House: Make a note, I should never doubt myself. Robert: I think you'll remember. Right there, shows their friendship.

[@jackwells8107]

After the huge deal the pharmacist made, I really hope he got sued for the bills.

[@dylancobalt7807]

Oh right they're American they have to pay to be in a hospital, can't imagine that.

[@maciejjanicki8385]

In US you seem to deal with the problems that don't exists elsewhere. There is a good reason why in most highly developed countries medicines are being sold in blisters sealed in factories.

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

“The family is prepared to waive liability.” So they never did, and since the pharmacist never admitted to the screw up, they do not have obligation to. I hope that canonically the family sued that pharmacist, because no pharmacist should be that self centered. If you are in a job position where small mistakes can threaten people’s lives, you better take seriously any possibility that you screwed up. When the family said they would waive liability and he still wasn’t even interested in helping, he waived his right to juror empathy. In the real world, that man would probably be sued for a fortune.

[@sluggou812beotch]

Cuz House is for real and so is bigfoot🙄

[@ryanshannon6963]

@@sluggou812beotch one has yet to be disproven.

[@Oscar08814]

It's a tv show bro, relax

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

@@sluggou812beotchThat’s why I said canonically. I am aware it’s a story. That’s the point. Stories draw attention to problems in the real world, and pharmacy screw ups are a major problem in the world with a lack of accountability.

[@annettereynolds7457]

I remember being in a lot of pain after an operation. The nurse came back with a pill I didn't recognize. When I asked her what it was, I asked her to check my wristband. I'm deathly allergic to what she had brought me.

[@ayanoaishi8489]

It’s funny that in the end he’s always right

[@Michaelbrown-xi3mr]

At 2:24 i love Chase's: "He's got a point" nod.

[@PatriciaXara]

I'm glad medicine in Portugal comes pre-packaged from the pharmaceutical company. In the pharmacy they only give you a box, they don't fill it.

[@UstedTubo187]

It's interesting how the show changed as it went on. The lighting in these very early episodes was so dark like they were all shot in the evening and not in a hospital. They changed that pretty early on as I recall to the more familiar, well-lit sets.

[@Holly-ys1me]

There are APPs that people can use now to double check pill identification. I have an allergy to a certain medicine and at times they mistakenly filled the medicine that I am allergic as a substitute for what I was supposed to take. So I know to double check.

[@Moonstone-Redux]

It's worth noting this episode ran in 2004, way before the modern concept of the smartphone.

[@alexanderhood8993]

I love how it show the fact that many medication look very simliarly to each other and fact that medications can even look very simliar to candy/sweet.

[@Un-Kal-El]

Chase should've asked to see all the colchicine they had in stock at THAT pharmacy...would've seen they look very similar.