House M.D. Mafia - Doctor Test Round - Feel free to jump in!

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Does he have a history of seizures or was this his first one?

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Action: Run an EEG.

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Ask the patient:

How long he's been pissing blood.
How long he's been living in the house with torn carpet and cracked walls.

Action:

Start patient on dialysis.

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I was hated to begin with? @.@

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Ask the patient:

How old his house is.

Action:

Start patient on chelation therapy for lead poisoning.

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Yay! ^_^

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I'm pretty sure the house wasn't a factor to TTH when he diagnosed and set the patient on the correct treatment.

The house was a factor. I was taking the cracked walls and peeling carpet as signs of age. Older houses tend to have lead-based paint and lead in the pipes.

I think the system of checking out the house and giving a general description, then having to specify something in order to do a "search" is a good one.

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Like you put him on penicillin but failed to ask for allergies and now he's seizing so you're hated, your hated status will be removed if you do something helpful to your patient or when he gets cured.

Stuff like this seems like it would make the game a lot more tedious and frustrating. Not to mention it makes the game more swingy when you tie it in with the voting mechanics. If you're doing an obviously risky procedure or test and something goes wrong that seems fair but having to ask before giving penicillin seems too taxing.

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Oh maybe not hated but clinic duty and not be able to do anything on the patient during the next period.

I like this.