Life vs. House (the show)

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Ok, in House, Forman is the neruologist. I was just wondering...in real life, are there neurologists that just do overall neruology work...like they don't speacalize in something like headaches, or neurodegenerative diseases? Are there some that do all of the neurology work?
 
Yes there are many neurologists who are General Neurologists...especially in private practice. In academics most have done fellowships and specialize in Neuromuscular, Movement Disorders, Neuro-immunology, Epilepsy, Headache etc. Although, along the interview trail I have met some generalists who are in academia and some programs (Harvard) offer fellowships in general neurology(to better prepare neurologists to be hospitalists and to have fellowship degree attached to it i suppose)...so it is definitely out there.
 
The stuff of House is utter bullsh--. Thats not how real world medicine works.
On house, the neurologist is probably the same guy that does neurosurgery.
Its sad to say, but ER is probably the most accurate portrayal of real world medicine out there today.

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Real neurologists are much cooler and better looking than the ones on TV.
 
Scrubs all the way.... Did you see the comparison of medicine vs surgery?

Or like when the surgery residents started fighting to get the back of the attending who was deciding who they were going to hire next year?

If you take out the humor in the show... it's pretty damn accurate.
 
Look I haven't written anything here since I was a med student. Now I am a PGY-3 Neuro resident and learned a lot over the last few years.

Scrubs is the most accurate in both medicine and resident life. I think that all of the "controversies" in residency are dealt with well especially when things go wrong. There was a lot of self-identification with every episode over the years. The medicine is actually pretty accurate too.

House is cool only for the case itself. The one thing that made me disbelieve in the procedural aspect of it was the "IV gabapentin STAT". And yes hospitalist neurologists are becoming more popular.

ER is crap. Anyone that has worked with an ER in today's defensive medicine world knows that most ER physicians act like triage nurses and depend on junior Neurology residents to figure things out (Don't get me started)

And by far, the WORST is Grey's Anatomy! Surgical residents managing the plague!! Come on people!!
 
Bill59 said:
Real neurologists are much cooler and better looking than the ones on TV.
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Ha ha...I hope we're all better looking than House...he's pretty scruffy.
 
Ross_neuro said:
ER is crap. Anyone that has worked with an ER in today's defensive medicine world knows that most ER physicians act like triage nurses and depend on junior Neurology residents to figure things out (Don't get me started)
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Uh, correct on the show, you have craniorectal inversion pertaining to the field.
 
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