House has writing consultants that are doctors and medical researchers. Before filming/writing an episode, people actually research potential diseases, and all its available symptoms/signs before they can come up with a good episode to produce.
The medications they recommend for certain ailments are, for the most part, pretty accurate. Then again, it is a drama, and on television, so some things may be exaggerated for dramatic/ratings effects.
Any show that has particular instances where things can be construed as facts, such as crime dramas %26amp; medical shows, there are people on the team who have background in such an area so that they can provide feedback on what works and what doesn't.The amount of scientific fact in House tv show?
All of the ailments are real. All of the treatments are real to and have been tested at some point, somewhere in the world, not always with the success of House and his team. This is more or less in some cases 'speculative medicine'. In other words if we had the means, if all people responded accordingly, and if all the conditions were met in a perfect circumstance then the results would be favorable and everything would be like it is on TV.
You can find the results of these medicines in several medical journals both the pros, cons, success rate in rats, failures in humans.
All of the diseases are real, and most of the treatments are experimental. They are more in the order of wildly exaggerated by making them worse or have multiple diseases at once and speeding up the time frame. They don't invent it entirely. Even House's infamous ketamine coma for curing chronic pain (end of season 2) -- which I thought was nuts when I first heard it-- is real.
Seconding what the responder above said, and also contributing a link: reviews of House episodes' medical accuracy.
there is some info available at the show's website under Features
http://www.fox.com/house/features/resear鈥?/a>
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