It took almost 2 weeks for doctors to diagnose me with two herniated discs with my left Sciatic nerve caught and being shredded between the bone shards because they all thought I was a drug seeker. That was in 2008. I'm now permanently disabled and in chronic pain every day of my life because the doctors couldn't see beyond their own prejudices. I kept screaming "I don't want pain killers!! I want you to make the pain stop and they're NOT the same thing!!!!" This was in Toronto. Free healthcare is worthless if the doctors don't know what they're doing.
1) health care is never free you're paying for it through your taxes 2) in all probability (rightly or wrongly) the doctors had some reason to believe you maybe drug seeking. As an ER nurse I saw a lot of such behaviour diagnosed by myself and doctors and 90% of the time we were correct. Gut instinct isn't scientific but it works.
@caseymacmacl7463 Toronto is in Canada. I'm Canadian, but having had two minor medical issues in both the U.S. and Canada, I would say they're different in many ways
It sounded like he forgave her though. When that one kid said the patient is an idiot House agreed with him implying the surgery was the right call, and even though he's suffering from chronic pain it beats the heck outa being dead.
@@zerieth6620house did not agree. He said patients usually are idiots. But House is not an idiot. I also think he would have rather died on his terms than the appeasement approach. Stacy and Cuddy broached his wishes and trampled his rights. House might have died, sure.s but as the patient it was his call to make. His life his body his choice. He had a case for punitive damages.
I went to hospital with a very new lower hernia and they wouldn't stop pumping full of pain killers even after I said I didn't want anymore, doctors are weird
difference between doctors who actually wants to cure is that they treat the root problem of your condition, not offer you palliative treatment for your symptoms
Best part of this episode is how slowly the hall was filled with the rest of the hospital staff, everyone willing to listen and try to understand him. IMO one of the saddest but most beautiful chapters of the series
This sounds somewhat reminiscent of what happened to my grandad. My aunts are still angry that the hospital left him in a lot of pain. He'd already had one leg amputated. I was five or six when he passed away and I have vague memories of going to his house and playing with his prosthetic leg. He'll have been gone 50 years this year.
In 2007 my lung collapsed, 2 days after they removed the tube it collapsed again. After 4 lung biopsies they finally learned in 2008 I had Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Eventually I’ll require a lung transplant.
Well, the damage comes from the patients when they decide to withhold information that could either save their lives or kill them. Iirc before House's hospitalization he was shot in the leg with an arrow months prior and in the clinical case he says that there's no history of trauma.
Funny and scary story about how drugs affect people. I was in Gallup NM filling in for an injured employee. While unloading trailer I started getting pains and since I had chronic kidney stones I knew exactly what it was. Drove to local hospital and after they confirmed with my Albuquerque doctor about the kidney stones the doctor gave me a very strong pain killer and instructions to go back to my motel and go straight to bed. This I had every intention of doing but started getting drowsy on the way to motel. The next thing I remember was about 7 hours later and I was stopped at a stop sign in the middle of the reservation. I had delivered the every package and approximately 50 stops and remember exactly nothing. My manager was aware of my condition was waiting for me when I drove back to the center. He was astonished that I had delivered the entire load and asked how I was feeling? I remember stating very plainly ‘I FEEL GOOD’. Delivered the same route the next day and never heard of any mis-deliveries or running into anyone. Thank god I didn’t cause any harm to anyone while driving completely drugged out of my head.
Well if they give me pain med of any kind while in the er they absolutely will not let me drive. Pain meds don't make me drowsy though. They always have to give a different cocktail of meds to help me through migraines and cluster headaches due to my head injury.
Idk when or where that was but the ER absolutely will not let you drive if they administer drugs. Source? Me, a guy with chronic health conditions who has had many ER visits resulting in morphine or dilaudid treatment.
It's rather about how being in horrendous pain and being disabled affects House! Quote by House in s1 Three Stories: Because of the extent of the muscle removed, utility of the patient’s leg was severely compromised. Because of the time delay in making the diagnosis, patient continues to experience chronic pain.
You notice he hasn't popped a single pill during lecture Either he's trying to hide his addiction or talking about diagnostic medicine or more specifically his medical history eases the pain
@vincentnguyen7978 this was before he started ranting about his medical issue. Then when he got emotional it was basically trauma dump therapy which is why he didn't really pop
Yes...house needs therapy but refuses to engage with anything that isn't objective or rational to his mind... Therapy isn't rational and it can be hard to see how it can help...but it can
I was labeled a drug seeker years ago. Now they are hesitant to give me anything. Havnt been to the doctors in while but I went through shoulder surgery with only Ibuprofen and Tylenol .. Pretty brutal
If Stacy had advised them to amputate, he wouldn't have been in pain and would have come to terms with it a lot sooner. It may have saved his marriage and that would have kept him from becoming as unpleasant as he did. Knowing she saved his life and didn't leave him in chronic pain would have helped. He could have still been an athlete, something he loved and a crucial outlet like it is for a lot of...us.
@@Tiresias55 Yeah he does say that, when advising a patient to go through with it, without even mentioning what it did to his personal life or saying that he risked his life with a stupid procedure. He says it made it him hard and cynical and that "This is just a leg".
@@Tiresias55 - Thank you. I remember that one…where he had to amputate a woman’s leg to get her free from debris that crushed it. He told the short, short version of this story and admitted that he regretted not just having his leg amputated. Although, knowing what he knows, he could alway elect to have his leg amputated so he doesn’t live with the chronic pain.
Ever heard of phantom pain? Quote by House in s1 Three Stories: Because of the extent of the muscle removed, utility of the patient’s leg was severely compromised. Because of the time delay in making the diagnosis, patient continues to experience chronic pain.
@ Doesn't he meant that by waiting so long, they had to remove a lot of muscle, which made the pain worse? He didn't suddenly experience pain, the pain built up over three days.
If i were house and someone i loved made that decision knowing i would not want it i would never speak to them again. I bet she is a "my body, my choice" person (i am) but took his choice about his body. So messed up.
When he said, “they usually are” at the end. It was him basically admitting he knew it was the right call by her and he just doesn’t want to acknowledge it. When he’s having a heart attack he says “I was wrong” him realizing he made the wrong choice about keeping the leg.
I generally try to avoid going to the doctor when I can. I pinched a nerve in my neck a couple months ago, and it only really hurts when I'm working (causes shoulder pain), but I don't intend on seeking treatment for it because I'm not willing to pay for it. If it's not life threatening or impacting my ability to do what I need to (work, chores, hygiene, driving, mobility, and hobbies) I won't seek treatment or take medication. I take birth control, but the reason why I'm staying on it after almost 7 years is because without it, every month for the first 2 days of my cycle it would feel like child birth and I'd be losing a lot of blood. There's also a chance I have endometriosis, so there is a chance I could die if I don't take my medication for a few years or have a hysterectomy (of course since I'm in my 20s, the doctors care more about my ability to have children than my quality of life amd happiness when there's already too many people on this planet anyway.)
Or colitis , or ovarian cysts , or ... It's a sad world where saving your health is outweighed by economics , a third world state of affairs... and American.
At the very least, see a physiotherapist who can advise on the best exercises to help you out. Also, get checked for fibroids - they can cause very heavy bleeding and a lot of pain during your period as well (my wife had this issue, and since it was removed things have got a lot better).
I understand she meant well, but if that was me, I dont know if I could forgive her and trust her anymore. Edit: At least not at first. We would never know if I would've lived without the surgery
Second, even third opinions should always be obtained in questionable cases. Avoid 'cookie-cutter' medicine and absolutely ask questions, expecting clear understandable replies. The more arrogant and aloof a health care provider acts towards you may indicate the more insecure they are with their ideas. When you consent, it must be informed consent, with clear understandings, alternatives and consequences. Don't be intimidated by 'white coat' syndrome.
"The patient is an idiot! -They usually are..."
yeah but its their decision at the end of the day...as long as they dont sue you later
he still had the objectivity to say that
This is the best house episode, it shows that even house can be wrong and shows his humility
It took almost 2 weeks for doctors to diagnose me with two herniated discs with my left Sciatic nerve caught and being shredded between the bone shards because they all thought I was a drug seeker. That was in 2008. I'm now permanently disabled and in chronic pain every day of my life because the doctors couldn't see beyond their own prejudices. I kept screaming "I don't want pain killers!! I want you to make the pain stop and they're NOT the same thing!!!!" This was in Toronto. Free healthcare is worthless if the doctors don't know what they're doing.
I'm so sorry that happened to you
did you or can you even sue them? I'm not familiar with the law in the USA (or almost any law lol)
1) health care is never free you're paying for it through your taxes
2) in all probability (rightly or wrongly) the doctors had some reason to believe you maybe drug seeking. As an ER nurse I saw a lot of such behaviour diagnosed by myself and doctors and 90% of the time we were correct. Gut instinct isn't scientific but it works.
@caseymacmacl7463 Toronto is in Canada. I'm Canadian, but having had two minor medical issues in both the U.S. and Canada, I would say they're different in many ways
2 weeks is nothing. When you have a severe rare disease, it takes a long time for them to decide what it is and how to treat it.
One of the best episodes of any television show ever.
I agree. A tragic tale of what intelligent, arrogance and pride does.
House's condition is very rare. It will never appear in a doctor's top 20. But like him, I'd be pretty mad with what Stacy did.
Muscular pain on the leg? Should be easy to diagnose...
@@gabrielbarrantes6946that’s the symptom not the condition. A gunshot wound to the chest isn’t just “chest pain”
@gabrielbarrantes6946 an aneurysm that led to an infarction resulting in muscle cell death is rare
It sounded like he forgave her though. When that one kid said the patient is an idiot House agreed with him implying the surgery was the right call, and even though he's suffering from chronic pain it beats the heck outa being dead.
@@zerieth6620house did not agree. He said patients usually are idiots. But House is not an idiot. I also think he would have rather died on his terms than the appeasement approach. Stacy and Cuddy broached his wishes and trampled his rights. House might have died, sure.s but as the patient it was his call to make. His life his body his choice. He had a case for punitive damages.
I went to hospital with a very new lower hernia and they wouldn't stop pumping full of pain killers even after I said I didn't want anymore, doctors are weird
difference between doctors who actually wants to cure is that they treat the root problem of your condition, not offer you palliative treatment for your symptoms
Best part of this episode is how slowly the hall was filled with the rest of the hospital staff, everyone willing to listen and try to understand him. IMO one of the saddest but most beautiful chapters of the series
"Who diagnosed?"....."he did", great line!
"Three Stories", AWESOME episode!!
This sounds somewhat reminiscent of what happened to my grandad. My aunts are still angry that the hospital left him in a lot of pain. He'd already had one leg amputated. I was five or six when he passed away and I have vague memories of going to his house and playing with his prosthetic leg. He'll have been gone 50 years this year.
Hope you had good memories with him
To be honest, they’re idiots for not realizing sooner it was him he was talking about
"Sir are you getting any pain in yo-"
"AAAHHHHHHGGGGG"
In 2007 my lung collapsed, 2 days after they removed the tube it collapsed again. After 4 lung biopsies they finally learned in 2008 I had Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Eventually I’ll require a lung transplant.
I had a spontaneous pneumothorax 2 years ago now, I can't imagine it happening twice. I'm glad that you are able to live on after the incident
You need some serious luck to treat rare cases with minimal collateral damage... Luck that most people don't have.
best hope is that others have had it a few times before you so people can spot signs
Well, the damage comes from the patients when they decide to withhold information that could either save their lives or kill them.
Iirc before House's hospitalization he was shot in the leg with an arrow months prior and in the clinical case he says that there's no history of trauma.
Electrical burn on my leg was diagnosed psoriasis. It got so bad I nearly lost the leg. Auto-immune treatments sort of help.
Wild i missed this episode and have watched the series 3 times lol
Funny and scary story about how drugs affect people. I was in Gallup NM filling in for an injured employee. While unloading trailer I started getting pains and since I had chronic kidney stones I knew exactly what it was. Drove to local hospital and after they confirmed with my Albuquerque doctor about the kidney stones the doctor gave me a very strong pain killer and instructions to go back to my motel and go straight to bed. This I had every intention of doing but started getting drowsy on the way to motel. The next thing I remember was about 7 hours later and I was stopped at a stop sign in the middle of the reservation. I had delivered the every package and approximately 50 stops and remember exactly nothing. My manager was aware of my condition was waiting for me when I drove back to the center. He was astonished that I had delivered the entire load and asked how I was feeling? I remember stating very plainly ‘I FEEL GOOD’. Delivered the same route the next day and never heard of any mis-deliveries or running into anyone. Thank god I didn’t cause any harm to anyone while driving completely drugged out of my head.
Aide-mémoire
Well if they give me pain med of any kind while in the er they absolutely will not let me drive. Pain meds don't make me drowsy though. They always have to give a different cocktail of meds to help me through migraines and cluster headaches due to my head injury.
Idk when or where that was but the ER absolutely will not let you drive if they administer drugs. Source? Me, a guy with chronic health conditions who has had many ER visits resulting in morphine or dilaudid treatment.
@ it was back around 1974 so maybe they were just a little more lax with their drugs back then.
It's rather about how being in horrendous pain and being disabled affects House!
Quote by House in s1 Three Stories: Because of the extent of the muscle removed, utility of the patient’s leg was severely compromised. Because of the time delay in making the diagnosis, patient continues to experience chronic pain.
You notice he hasn't popped a single pill during lecture
Either he's trying to hide his addiction or talking about diagnostic medicine or more specifically his medical history eases the pain
1:52?
@vincentnguyen7978 this was before he started ranting about his medical issue. Then when he got emotional it was basically trauma dump therapy which is why he didn't really pop
Yes he did at the beginning
@@tunasandwich8049so he did pop a pill during his lecture…
Yes...house needs therapy but refuses to engage with anything that isn't objective or rational to his mind...
Therapy isn't rational and it can be hard to see how it can help...but it can
I love these videos 🥰
Unless they got insurance, this is an expensive way to get drugs
I know a guy who passed away over $200k in debt to Mountain State Health Alliance for ER visits for his addiction.
Still one of my favorite episodes.
Give me a medical induced coma.. my pain is killing me 😢
I love the vids so much I watch them 24/7 ❤❤❤❤
Good episode
I was labeled a drug seeker years ago.
Now they are hesitant to give me anything.
Havnt been to the doctors in while but I went through shoulder surgery with only Ibuprofen and Tylenol ..
Pretty brutal
If Stacy had advised them to amputate, he wouldn't have been in pain and would have come to terms with it a lot sooner. It may have saved his marriage and that would have kept him from becoming as unpleasant as he did. Knowing she saved his life and didn't leave him in chronic pain would have helped. He could have still been an athlete, something he loved and a crucial outlet like it is for a lot of...us.
He even says as much in another episode, pretty sure he says they should've amputated
@@Tiresias55 Yeah he does say that, when advising a patient to go through with it, without even mentioning what it did to his personal life or saying that he risked his life with a stupid procedure. He says it made it him hard and cynical and that "This is just a leg".
@@Tiresias55 - Thank you. I remember that one…where he had to amputate a woman’s leg to get her free from debris that crushed it. He told the short, short version of this story and admitted that he regretted not just having his leg amputated. Although, knowing what he knows, he could alway elect to have his leg amputated so he doesn’t live with the chronic pain.
Ever heard of phantom pain?
Quote by House in s1 Three Stories: Because of the extent of the muscle removed, utility of the patient’s leg was severely compromised. Because of the time delay in making the diagnosis, patient continues to experience chronic pain.
@ Doesn't he meant that by waiting so long, they had to remove a lot of muscle, which made the pain worse? He didn't suddenly experience pain, the pain built up over three days.
If i were house and someone i loved made that decision knowing i would not want it i would never speak to them again. I bet she is a "my body, my choice" person (i am) but took his choice about his body. So messed up.
That's more or less what he did.
doesnt house do that every third episode lol but i understand what you mean
He would of died if she hadn't, this was the best episode from house. It shows that even house can be wrong, and shows his humility of being wrong
When he said, “they usually are” at the end. It was him basically admitting he knew it was the right call by her and he just doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
When he’s having a heart attack he says “I was wrong” him realizing he made the wrong choice about keeping the leg.
Not that deep
7:36 CHEST COMPRESSIONS CHEST COMPRESSIONS CHEST COMPRESSIONS come on staff
on tachycardia? what would that accomplish?
@@boneheadedfellow He very clearly flat lined after the first shock. They just cut away from it as they are charging the paddles a second time.
his insurance payout must rival the GDP of japan, guess he's not with united...
which episode was it? Im about to finish the series again and I don’t want to haha
Season 1, Episode 21
Cuddy is soo fiiiine 😍
I generally try to avoid going to the doctor when I can. I pinched a nerve in my neck a couple months ago, and it only really hurts when I'm working (causes shoulder pain), but I don't intend on seeking treatment for it because I'm not willing to pay for it. If it's not life threatening or impacting my ability to do what I need to (work, chores, hygiene, driving, mobility, and hobbies) I won't seek treatment or take medication. I take birth control, but the reason why I'm staying on it after almost 7 years is because without it, every month for the first 2 days of my cycle it would feel like child birth and I'd be losing a lot of blood. There's also a chance I have endometriosis, so there is a chance I could die if I don't take my medication for a few years or have a hysterectomy (of course since I'm in my 20s, the doctors care more about my ability to have children than my quality of life amd happiness when there's already too many people on this planet anyway.)
Pay for it? I’m so sorry for anyone who have to pay for medical care
Or colitis , or ovarian cysts , or ...
It's a sad world where saving your health is outweighed by economics , a third world state of affairs... and American.
Pinched nerve? Try yoga or a good massage therapist
At the very least, see a physiotherapist who can advise on the best exercises to help you out. Also, get checked for fibroids - they can cause very heavy bleeding and a lot of pain during your period as well (my wife had this issue, and since it was removed things have got a lot better).
@@samus9397 even in "free" healthcare places you are technically paying for it in the form of more taxes
Remember when doctors tried.
So he became friends with Wilson after messing up his leg? Also was he already working at the hospital or did he get the job after?
I understand she meant well, but if that was me, I dont know if I could forgive her and trust her anymore.
Edit: At least not at first. We would never know if I would've lived without the surgery
Second, even third opinions should always be obtained in questionable cases. Avoid 'cookie-cutter' medicine and absolutely ask questions, expecting clear understandable replies. The more arrogant and aloof a health care provider acts towards you may indicate the more insecure they are with their ideas. When you consent, it must be informed consent, with clear understandings, alternatives and consequences. Don't be intimidated by 'white coat' syndrome.
Is this what doctors dreams are like?
Is that the Cobra Kai guy?
Love it shame
If I was walking down the street with a dog that was yelping in pain… someone called the cops I could go to jail
So is paid
The too many people on planet earth dont live in first world countries, youll regret it eventually
Demerol doesnt work that fast lol
It did for me.
@ramcsingh really? It usually takes over a half hour before I get even a hint of pain relief. It's never made me loopy or drowsy
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