Dr. House 'save'

Dr. House 'save' its first patient in real life 

A doctor does cure a sick with a mysterious clinical picture thanks to an identical case you saw in the television series.

Prime time in any Western television. As every week, Dr. House, a sardonic and ailing doctor drug addict who plays the actor Hugh Laurie , is facing a new hard case to diagnose.

The patient comes to the accelerated at full speed to the point of risking your life heart. At first House believes that it is lead poisoning and applies a treatment to neutralize heavy metals. It does not work , and the patient is the limit. Finally , just in time , discover the real cause : defective hip prosthesis that the patient was intoxicating chip cobalt.

May 2012 . No Diagnosed Disease Center at the University Hospital Marburg (Germany ) . A 55 year old man comes in with severe heart failure that endangers his life. The patient has also lost his sight and hearing and suffered an unexplained fever . His medical history includes only health problems except hip surgery two years earlier.

Suddenly the doctor Juergen Schaefer recalls Frame House series you saw recently and it occurs analyze the levels of cobalt introduced his patient. Bingo. His hip is defective and has lost the use cobalt has come to poison the patient. Schaefer sends his patient to an orthopedic clinic where you change the prosthesis and is finally recovered from his heart problems.

The exceptional case of the 55 year old man who saved him a television fiction appears today in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. Its lead author , Dr. Schaefer, head of the Center for Disease Undiagnosed your hospital, spent five years using episodes of House as " gateway" to arouse interest among students and familiarize them with " rare or unusual " conditions. "These activities have given me the nickname questionable Dr. German House ," says Schaefer to Matter. "To ensure that our students do not become small House do external evaluations regularly ," he adds .

Schaefer says something like that had lived through. " In the series the writers used actual clinical cases as material to create their unusual cases . Therefore it was only a matter of time acabásemos watching one of these cases in real life . And that 's what happened with our patient suffering from poisoning cobalt, a story that is told in chapter 11 of the seventh season , "says the doctor . " All this shows that the entertainment well done not only entertain and educate but also can save lives," he observes.