Once Again TV (via Hugh Laurie) Saves A Man's Life

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**Ahtman**

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LONDON (AP) -- If you're unlucky enough to be stricken with a rare medical condition, you'd better hope your doctor watches the right television show.

That was the lesson for one German man with severe heart failure and a puzzling mix of symptoms including fever, blindness, deafness and enlarged lymph nodes, which baffled doctors for months.

The 55-year-old man was diagnosed only when he was referred to Dr. Juergen Schaefer, a fan of the U.S. television medical drama, "House."

"After five minutes, I knew what was wrong," said Schaefer, who works at the Center for Undiagnosed Diseases in Marburg, north of Frankfurt.

He said the man's symptoms matched up almost perfectly with a patient on an episode in which the fictional Dr. Gregory House, played by British actor Hugh Laurie, identified cobalt poisoning as the cause. The series ended in 2012 after an eight-year run.

**LordofHats**

I'm sure Dr. House will happily take credit

**timetowaste85**

I figured most of the stuff from House and other medical shows were mostly fictional. Does it actually have basis in real medicine? If so, that's awesome, and why is it off the air? Hugh done? Run out of the drive to continue?

**Kilkrazy**

Mr Laurie has jazz albums to record.

**insaniak**

timetowaste85 wrote:
I figured most of the stuff from House and other medical shows were mostly fictional. Does it actually have basis in real medicine? If so, that's awesome, and why is it off the air? Hugh done? Run out of the drive to continue?

The medical stuff was generally 'real' although they did get the occasional thing wrong.

As for why it finished, I suspect that the writers just went as far as they could with it. The last couple of seasons wound up focusing far more on the doctors than on the medical drama.

There were also some health concerns with Hugh... He was told that if he kept walking with a fake limp for too much longer, he would do permanent damage to his spine. Don't know if that was a factor in finishing the series, though.

Edit: nope, apparently it was actually just penny-pinching by Fox that killed the show. Well done Fox, you're the reason we can't have nice things...

**Flashman**

Hugh Laurie was next due to play Blackbeard in a new TV series, "Crossbones", but after a bit of reading around, the role appears to have passed to John Malkovich