When a patient in Germany stumped his doctors with a strange combination of severe symptoms including heart failure, vision and hearing loss, acid reflux, and enlarged lymph nodes, Dr. Juergen Schaefer was called in to lend his expertise. Turns out the doc isn’t only gainfully employed solving medical mysteries at the Center for Undiagnosed Diseases just outside Frankfurt — he’s also a fan of the TV show “House.”
Schaefer had recently seen and lectured about an episode in which the fictional Dr. Gregory House sees a patient with the same symptoms. In the episode, the fictional patient had been on the wrong end of a botched hip replacement and was suffering from cobalt poisoning. Schaefer told The Associated Press that, thanks to the show’s well-researched script writing, “After five minutes, I knew what was wrong.”
via cnet
