"Dr House" - gra i semiologia

Cobalt intoxication diagnosed with the help of Dr House.

574 www.thelancet.com Vol 383 February 8, 2014 In May, 2012, a 55-year-old man was referred to our clinic for severe heart failure (New York Heart Association class IV). He had raised brain natriuretic peptide of 1053 ng/L (normal <55 ng/L) and his estimated ejection fraction by echocardiography was 25%. His medical history was mostly uneventful, apart from the fact that he had had both hips re...

Digital Dr. House: A Semantic Alerting Platform for the ICU

Do you know Dr. Gregory House? He and his staff are medical experts. Together they can tackle almost any medical problem. At the Intensive Care department of the University Hospital of Ghent, we have developed a digital Dr. House. In the Intensive Care department there is a lot of data [1]. Per patient more than 20,000 values are generated each day [4]. Studies show that people can interpret at...

Teaching medicine with the help of “Dr. House”

TV series such as "House MD", "Grey´s Anatomy" or "Emergency Room" are well perceived by medical students. Seminars featuring medical TV series such as "House MD" might serve as door-opener to attract medical students to learn more about rare diseases. The TV series "House MD" is troublesome for the main character Dr. House is an excellent diagnostician but at the same time a rather misanthropi...

Dr. R. I. S. Gordon

To Grandmother's House I Go.

SUMMARY Within the mode of "biomythography" that owes its identification as a genre to Audre Lorde's ZAMI,Jewelle Gomez examines her own writing processes. Her explorations revolve around her work-in-process about her great grandmother's life. Issues of truth, memory, history, race, and community are considered. The author also discusses the embodied nature of writing.