There are flaws in Dr House’s scenarios
I discovered a problem in the last Dr House’s episode I watched yesterday.
A youngster arrives at the hospital. He was poisoned by some substance. The rationale is: One can save is life, provided that the very substance that caused his illness is precisely identified. Then, one can give him the corresponding antidote. One shall not make a mistake in the identification, because any antidote for the wrong substance might kill him.
At first glance, it is obvious, because the House’s team is immediately told about some sort of round-up he had used recently. They intend to cure him with the appropriate antidote, the one which cures poisoning with the formula that is indicated on the bottle. But they change their mind, when a second youngster arrives with the same symptom, though he surely did not use the same weed-killer.
The team thinks it must be something else they have in common. Bingo, they were in the same school bus. This school bus had crossed a truck in the morning, and that truck had been spreading another weed-killer. Thus, they get the formula of this new agent, and cure both young guys with the antidote they believe appropriate. But, this is a big disapointment, because, their condition deteriorates, and they nearly kick their bucket on that.
So, it must be something else they share. Re bingo: new clothes they both did not wash.
And there we are: Doctors get samples of these clothes and analyse them to find the substance. So they could have done it on blood samples, if it was so simple ! Discrepancy !