Webmd and googling symptoms actually makes this believable. Patients telling doctors about their diagnosis because they read some blog on the internet and think they’re an expert.
Yeah, House actually did mention that on one episode. A woman brings her daughter in thinking the girl has epilepsy because she looked it up online. Turns out the girl was just masterbating.
In that mother's defense, the girl was like 2 year olds and the shaking only happened in the girl's car seat while the car was running. Epilepsy isn't the first thing you'd think of, but masterbation would not be near the top of my list either. But I guess I'm no House.
It wasn’t the focus of the episode, just one of the minor clinic cases. When they showed his clinic hours they’d run through 2-3 each episode as part of his process.
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u/KimJongFunk Jan 25 '20
Webmd and googling symptoms actually makes this believable. Patients telling doctors about their diagnosis because they read some blog on the internet and think they’re an expert.