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LifeArt
06-28-06, 12:15 AM
The other thread expired, so I've started this one.

I downloaded the episode last week by pure chance. I was downloading other TV shows like Alias and Charmed, and there was one episode of House there and I'd heard good things. So I clicked download. Watched the episode. I'm not sure how to react to it. I was angry - and shocked, but in a sense, I expected some kind of garbage in detailing the nature of the condition. After all, I've seen an episode of ER that wholly misrepresents a girl with an intersex condition. But, I have to say....I sat for about 10 minutes in utter disbelief afterwards that the writers got away with putting those words into the characters mouth. However, I don't think I've been personally affected by it in any long-term damaging way, although I can truly understand how some would be. I think that says something about how I have come to terms with my own life, even though I have a long way to go. So, I'm pleased with myself for not taking it to heart and looking at it from a distance. I think it comes from a lack of understanding - and maybe some good can come from it in the form of debate. It would've been nice if they'd got it right though.

Priestess
08-18-06, 10:15 PM
Sometimes art follows life. No, it's hard to believe the words they put in the patient's mouth. But it's easy to believe in doctors who are as evil pricks as Dr House is. I meet them all the time. They're worse than Dr House, he is evil, but at least he sometimes discovers the medical truth. Real doctors don't want to know what the truth is. Hippocrates would be ashamed.