This case was about a nun who came to clinic becouse of chemical burns on her hands. House gave her an injection of a anti-allergic medicine but she got much worse a couple of minutes later. Cuddy - the head of the hospital assumed that it was House's fault become he gave the nun too high dose of the drug. House of course didn't belive that he could made a mistake. Eventually he found out that the nun has been allergic to a copper and she got sick because of the copper cross inside of her which was form of birth control in '80.
Whole episode is connected to faith. House obviously doesn't believe in God and divine judgments, his friend Wilson is jewish, 2 people of his team are unbelieving and the third one is a christian. Most of them concluded that in the case of health it is better to trust House than a God.
Phrase (2 this time becouse both of them I found interesting equally):
1) "Hippocratic oath" - oath that ancient doctors made. It was a basis of today's medical ethics.
2) "Damned if you do. Damned if you don't." - in a simple words - "You are screwed either way"
As far as I know, doctors take the Hippocratic oath today as well when they receive their doctor's diploma.
OdpowiedzUsuńAs to whether you should trust God or medicine, a friend of mine had a patient who asked to be operated on before other patients (he wanted to jump the queue). His argument was: "You know, doctor, I am an atheist and I trust medicine and your skills. The other people in the cue trust God so let them pray for their recovery and operate on me in the meantime." True story!