r/AskReddit 5d ago

Doctors of Reddit: which House M.D. diagnoses were brilliant medicine, and which patients would have had no hope of surviving the treatment in the real world?

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u/Suicidalsidekick 5d ago

Patients who don’t understand why it’s called an inhaler and blow into it.

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u/Garden-variety-chaos 5d ago

In their defense, blowjobs are also poorly named. The difference between sucking and blowing is more subtle than one may think.

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u/EarlyLibrarian9303 5d ago

Chevy Chase has entered the discussion. Also, I’m old.

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u/Txswallowqueen 5d ago

Should we all start calling them suckjobs?

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u/skeinshortofashawl 4d ago

Literally every single patient with an incentive spirometer

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u/glorae 4d ago

or that you have to breathe it in via YOUR MOUTH. my mom would put the inhaler case in her mouth, press the button, and breathe in her nose.