[Leica] Cameras and TV

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

I'm sorry I missed the episode. I don't watch much TV but I  
occasionally catch "House" just to take curmudgeon lessons at the  
feet of the master. Then I have to spend the next day being careful  
not to channel Dr House when seeing my (cancer) patients and  
interacting with colleagues (except some--colleagues, never patients!).

As a physician, I advise anyone watching "House" without the benefit  
of medical experience to approach it from the point of view that the  
action takes place within a culture, in a country, on a planet,  
perhaps even in a universe, that are not our own. Little that  
happens, medically or interpersonally, has any actual parallel in the  
space-time continuum we inhabit. Put in a more culturally relevant  
way, "House" is the TV version of the comic book "The MedX Men:  
Superheroes of Medicine". The dynamics and behavior of the characters  
are literally just that comically simplistic and exaggerated.

(But God do I love how Laurie does House...maybe if one day I retire  
from clinical practice and take up being a professor at a medical  
school....)

--howard

On Apr 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> Every film I have seen dramatising something I know intimately has  
> got it COMPLETELY wrong. Knowing that i steel myself in advance.  
> Sadly some young people's only history education seems to be  
> movies :-(
> Ignorance and misconceptions ensue.
> Frank