Talk:Lines in the Sand (House)

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"Hello sick-people", I am the guy who started the Ali patient history on this page, where I noted that Ali's neurological symptoms would require the formation of a fungal meningitis (a very rare form of meningitis (House's favourite kind)) on the Frontal lobe of her cerebral cortex, which would cause her impairment of judgement and loss of inhibitions (this combined with being a teenage girl (she was introduced as a vain peer-social materialist)) should've caused her to turn into a star of a Girls Gone Wild video (another favourite). Thusly my skepticism reasoned me to also note that we didn't get to see her honky Badonkadonk (I see it as an essential diagnostic criteria for House's diagnosis (of Frontal lobe fungal meningitis)). I also noted the other diagnostic criteria for Coccidioidomycosis which should've been required, but were not present or overlooked for one reason or another. I mention these glaring issues as I started the article, saw no causation for it's modification, but my fellow House-fans have seen cause to edit-in grammar & spelling mistakes and the deletion of my observations of House's deceptively unjustified diagnosis. I've tried making corrections to their deletions and insertions, but my enthusiasm for this episode has been exhasted by my writing of this critique (work smart not hard). The new final line however:"It is likely that House lies to her that loving House is a symptom to make Ali leave him alone.", (despite the grammar oversight in this line) this statement would be consistent with the flow of the episode as Ali's final scene came after Cuddy futily bombarded House with a barage of lies designed both to test his experiences-with and undermine his attraction-for Ali. It's not a move I would expect from House ofcourse, mostly because Cuddy ordered him to break-up, but especially since according to the wiki-articles Age of consent, Ages of consent in North America & the below image: the legal age ranges from 16 in the East, to 17 or 18 in the West. (The actress is 20-something, my rant is purely for the quality of the article.) I understand that repelling Allison Cameron's pity-love & Lisa Cuddy's sperm-lust is essential to the environment of low sexual tension (with high professional hostility) that House seems to believe is essential to his methods, but saying no to free nooky on the side, without even telling her to "Wait 22 weeks or else!", what was he thinking to be ditching her without even confirming Coccidioides immitis? You know, all that, doctor stuff. :-] --202.76.178.108 18:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If you think this is valid to the article, then put it in by all means. Honky Badonkadonk is hardly lingo for an encyclopedia, however. PullToOpen talk 03:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * True, slang has little right to be mentioned. Using any terms that you like, surely you too can see the rather obvious errors and omisions in Ali's history.  I just think these oversights should be corrected by someone who hasn't had their previous additions deleted when they weren't looking, that's all.  As for Ali, I believe she'll figure out some other explanation for her milky tears, maybe from another doctor who might bother to give her some medical evidence to support their diagnosis, then give Ali a reason to come back to House, that is if she forgives him for the rather obvious dis-diagnosis (mis- implies mistaken falsehood, dis- implies deliberate falsehood).  --202.76.178.108 16:31, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Although Coccidioides immitis doesn't necessarily cause desinhibition (except for the improbably rare case of frontal meningitis mentionned above), we may mention other parasite that have been alleged to present such symptoms, like the toxoplasmosis according to some recent articles (also featured on slashdot). In addition of being a way to send away the girl, by pretending that her crush was actually a symptom of the fungus, it could also be a nod to that publication.DrYak 23:16, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

References I don't buy that the Mel's Diner thing is a reference to "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." --75.15.240.202 00:36, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I removed the reference to Grey's Anatomy (TV show). The reference is just about the textbook, nothing more. Sandtiger 17:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Gray's Anatomy
From Article:

Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body: House says "So, think maybe Gray's Anatomy got it all wrong?". It is a reference of Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy.

I was wondering if that quote may also be an allusion to the medical Drama Gray's Anatomy which has been criticised in the past forbeing unrealistic medically.

see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%27s_Anatomy#Criticisms --Tom of north wales 12:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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age of consent
I thought that 202.76.178.108, in his ramblings above, would have mentioned this, but apparently he is thinking about the age of the actress, not the age of the character. The age of consent in New Jersey is 16, so there was no real legal reason for House to turn Ali away. Unless there is some sort of a hospital internal regulation against involvement of doctors with their patients. Iago 212 16:08, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Many states have degrees of illegality for sexual activities with someone under 18. Some states, for example, have a legal age of consent that has the harshest sanctions, but there are less severe (but still serious) sanctions for one or two years above that age of consent, such as "contributing to the delinquency of a minor". In any event, however, if House's hospital has any standards whatsover, there most definitely is an internal regulation, not to mention that a physician having a sexual relationship with a patient puts his/her license to practice in serious jeopardy. Script writers tend to be oblivious to those regulations related to professional ethics. Cresix (talk) 17:19, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

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