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DeltaBlack t1_ivo8lis wrote

Reply to comment by BoOtto in In House M. D. there is an episode in which the doc asked the lady who was concerned about weight gain. Doc asked her to raise their hand and by seeing that he was able to determine she was pregnant. Do arms and pregnancy have some correlation? by Abhinav_Mani

There was a website named Polite Dissent from an MD who reviewed the episodes. Unfortunately it no longer exists but I remember that especially in the later episodes some issues would have been diagnosed very quickly with standard medical procedures.

I think in one instance it was said that looking at the blood sample before running the lab tests would have revealed the disease instantly. In another it was said that after a positive pregnancy test and a negative ultrasound test the next step was to look for an ectopic pregnancy (which took the team a while to figure out).

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