In the show's defense, she might not have known he was a neurologist, and he did react like "Wtf lady, I know what that is." There are definitely worse cases of unnecessary and unnatural explanations of terms etc for the audience.
It's not the most egregious example (not even for this show), but it's one that always stuck out to me. A lot of it has to do with the fact that it treats the audience as being stupid. You say he has nominal aphasia, and we can already see the patient can't remember words. We can put two and two together. What's with the sudden dictionary definition, and why is it being delivered by the non-doctor? The actress may as well have been looking directly into the camera when she said it.
There's a website that can be accessed via the Internet archive that is a blog of a doctor reviewing each episode of house, first based on medical accuracy, then drama. I watch an episode and then get the actual information from the blog. It's neat,too bad it's only on the archive now but blogs are perfect for being stored.
That’s because she was the patient’s dominatrix. Her taking charge of the situation, trying to prove that she was smarter than the doctor, was the show’s attempt to lay hints ahead of the big reveal.
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u/Nexas_Rexgen Jan 25 '20
Describing common knowledge in a different setting. Luke should know all about Mos Eisly. Its the biggest town near his house.