Are there jobs out there like House's on House M.D?

Question

Do hospitals similar to his actually exists? He basically gets one specialty patient at a time, and then does clinic hours. is this realistic?

Answer 1

It is unlikely that anyone sees one patient at a time, has three (or more) fellows running around running his errands, and then sits in his office watching porn and taking narcotics which he obtains by questionable means.

Additionally, it is very difficult to tell what his specialty is... in one show he is a specialist in infectious disease, and the next he is speializing in something else. He also seems to have his fellows, running MRI scanners, CT scanners, doing technical diagnostic procedures, which may at times be performed by physicians, but generally by the physician who has specialized in that field.

They then make numerous mistakes, misdiagnose every patient at least twice usually three times, give treatment which make the patient worse, if not permanently injure the patient, only to get the diagnosis 50 minutes into the show (for dramatic purposes). Also his internal medicine/infectiousdisease/diagnostician fellows, are frequently doing burr holes in the OR as neurosurgeons, then running the bowels in the OR as a general surgeon, then performing other diagnostic procedures usually performed by physicians who have at least been residency if not fellowship educated to perform. Then when they are finished doing the job of all of the physician specialties, they run to the lab, and perform the med tech duties, they do most of the nursing duties themselves, perform their own xrays. Gee they are enterprising. An when they have reduced their patient into a complete coma, usually after the second misdiagnosis, one or more of the fellows (if not House himself) breaks into the patient's home or car and finds a key peice of evidence which guides the diagnosis (usually taking a moment to have intercourse in the patient's bedroom).

If they actually had any team of physicians like this in the US, they would only have one patient at a time, because the remainder of their time would be spent preparing for the malpractice cases.

No... the show is in no way realistic...but it is entertaining!