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House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner

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What do you get when you combine CSI science, the medicine of ER, and an acerbic, pain pill addict with a cane? House MD .

In House Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner , the entire cast of the show is on the exam Wilson, Cuddy, Foreman, Cameron, Chase and particularly the cantankerous, but brilliant Dr. House.

What makes House tick? Why did he really hire Foreman, Cameron and Chase (and why is it so easy to believe he's actually subjecting them to some sort of bizarre psychological testing)? What would House be like as a heating and plumbing repairman? And why doesn't Wilson just stop talking to him already?

Answers to these questions are presented by a team of writers as talented as the team of doctors in House, MD . The prognosis? One heck of a good read.

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2007

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Leah Wilson

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Leah Wilson is Editor-in-Chief of the Smart Pop imprint of Dallas-based publisher BenBella Books. She graduated from Duke University in 2003 with a degree in Culture and Modern Fiction, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fall season premiere schedules make her a little giddy.

(Her author blog is the main blog for Smart Pop's website, and she'll be using this Goodreads account in part to do some Smart Pop pre-pub giveaways, and more!)

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152 reviews
October 5, 2024
Dieses Buch habe ich in einem Bücherschrank gefunden. Ich habe aber auch manchmal Glück. Ich war ein riesen Dr.House-Fan. Weil ich während meines Studiums oft lieber etwas gemeinsam mit Kommilitonen unternehmen wollte, die aber dann doch eher zu sich nach Hause gefahren sind oder gelernt haben, war ich oft mit dem Team um Dr. House alleine. Ich meinte fast für eine Zeit im Princeton Plainsboro gelebt zu haben.

Ich bin also Fan. Dieses Buch ist interessant, liest sich schnell weg (2 Tage in meinem Fall) und ist voller interessanter Anekdoten und Ergänzungen. Die meisten beziehen sich auf die ersten Staffeln.

Mehrere Beiträge sind vom Stil her völlig unterschiedlich und sorgen so dafür, dass keine Langeweile aufkommt. So richtig in die Tiefe geht es aber oft dennoch nicht. Ist aber auch nicht weiter schlimm.

Es gibt sehr offensichtliche Beobachtungen (House ist an Sherlock Holmes angelehnt), recht interessante Beobachtungen (House und seine Aspekte widergespiegelt im Team um ihn herum) und wilde bis sehr unterhaltsame Ideen (Wilson ist nur oder zum Teil eingebildet, die Gebäude oder Häuser in Haus in Beziehung zur Serie).

Dieses Buch ist nichts für Leute, die mit der Serie nichts anfangen können (warum sollten die das auch lesen, aber vielleicht bringt es das Buch dazu, die Serie zu schauen). In jedem Fall fand ich mich gut unterhalten und für das, was es ist und versucht zu sein ist es eigentlich einen Stern oder mehr wert.

Besonders schön finde ich die Rahmung der einzelnen Beiträge, so kann man, wenn man sich besonders für eine Theorie oder die Schreibe eines der Autoren interessiert hat, gleich von dort tiefer in die Welt von denen eintauchen.
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3 reviews1 follower
May 18, 2008
House Unauthorized is broken down into four sections: essays about the show, essays about House as a character, essays about the psychology of House's character, and essays about the other characters. I found the essays in the first two sections a bit weaker than the others, although there were some gems. On the show as a whole, the argument about critical audiences and the rare moments House tries to dumb itself down in "That Was A Ten" is interesting, as was the look at House's character from a British viewer's perspective. The rest of the second section consists largely of essays comparing House to other well-known characters: M*A*S*H's Hawkeye Pierce and Sherlock Holmes.

There are several essays in the latter half of the book that I found particularly interesting. "How House Thinks" is a breakdown of the methodology employed by real-world doctors in diagnosing diseases, and how/why House's techniques are comparable to or illustrative of the typical highly-experienced medical professional. "House Calls" uses cognitive psychological research to discuss why House's theories and diagnoses are so often accurate. "But Can He Teach?" analyzes how House influences and teaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman throughout the first three seasons of the show. "Does God Limp?" discusses how House's chronic pain affects his psychology and diagnostic skills.

This book is definitely intended for people who enjoy thinking critically. That said, it's not a difficult or boring read by any means.
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53 reviews41 followers
May 29, 2011
Na zmianę załamuję się tłumaczeniem i co ciekawszymi stwierdzeniami autorów. Szczególnie urzekł mnie opis odcinka "Skin Deep": "Ojciec dziewczyny, nieświadomy jej prawdziwej płci, uprawiał z nią seks".

Całość bardzo nierówna: obok interesujących analiz teksty jakby pisane po obejrzeniu paru losowych odcinków.
Do tego eseje te pisane były w 2007 r, część chyba nawet przed finałem 3 sezonu. Widać, jak wiele rzeczy rozumiemy teraz inaczej.

Najbardziej zdziwiło mnie jednak coś, co dotyczy raczej amerykańskiej telewizji i jej widowni, niż konkretnie tego serialu. Kilku autorów stwierdza, że najbardziej kontrowersyjną cechą House'a jest... ateizm.
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469 reviews3 followers
October 23, 2020
Najnudniejsza książka z trzech "przewodników" po serialu Dr House.
Jak dla mnie tylko początek jest rewelacyjny - chodzi mi o rozdział dotyczący sposobu rodzenia/tworzenia się pomysłu na serial. Najpierw były postaci - ich wygląd, cechy, charakter, a ogólny motyw i co za tym idzie zawód i miejsce pracy to było nie lada wyzwanie! House był hydraulikiem, więźniem, profesorem i jeszcze kimś ;) zanim ostatecznie został lekarzem, Cuddy jego szefową, a ekipa ekipą hehe
Nawet jak nie całą książkę (ja jej nie skończyłam, bo uznałam że nie warto) to KONIECZNIE trzeba przeczytać różne pomysły na pilotażowe odcinki. UBAW PO PACHY :)))
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January 12, 2015
In House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner, the entire cast of the show is examined in short essays by various writers. It examines their personalities and relationships on both a serious and humorous level. My favorite has to be the essay regarding previous incarnations of the House character before it was settled on the character being a doctor. (An English professor, a prisoner, a telemarketer???) Very interesting read for lovers of House, MD...the show and the character.
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1,388 reviews58 followers
January 14, 2013
A tough read. Most of the essays would focus on first two seasons and while some were interesting, some were quite boring. All of them were repetitive and made the book disappointing.
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