Today, I introduced my dad, who is a surgeon, to the TV show 'House, M.D.' I thought it'd be a good bonding experience. How wrong I was. He spent the whole time yelling about the "insane" medical inaccuracies, then lectured me about my crappy taste in TV. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my dad got angry with me for not watching "Better Call Saul" with him, because he thinks it will help me with law school. He did this while I was actually reading for a class taught by the top health law professor in the country. FML
Today, I was telling off one of my friends, a fellow student of medicine, who was spending his evenings watching "House" instead of revising for our important exam, as I was. The topic mentioned in the episode came up in the exam. He got 4 points more than I did. FML
Today, my husband won't seek medical treatment for a condition he's been living with for years because he saw an episode of House, in which the treatment made the condition worse in a very rare instance. FML
Today, I think my dad has finally lost his shit and is having a mid-life crisis. He showed up at my school and had me brought to the front desk. He told me to get in the car because we were going to have some "father-daughter bonding." This meant us watching Silent Hill with his work buddies. FML
Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML
Today, a week after my dad discovered Family Guy and started mindlessly repeating catchphrases from it 24/7, I finally lost my temper and told him how incredibly annoying it was. He just paused, turned to look me in the eye, and said, "Shut up, Meg." FML
Today, I introduced my girlfriend to my dad. I thought it was a good idea at the time, at least until he took her aside for a private chat. During the chat, he told her all about my two previous marriages and advised her to "get out while you can". FML
Today, I showed my girlfriend some old home videos of me as a kid. My dad must have taped over one though, because halfway through it cut to extremely graphic footage of his colonoscopy. FML
Today, I went out with my parents and a family friend. After saying goodbye to the friend and as soon as the elevator doors shut, my parents started trash-talking the friend's looks, stature, choice of clothes, etc. Now I understand a lot about my education growing up. FML
Today, I walked in on my dad singing along to a song on Sesame Street. He tried to divert attention from what I'd just witnessed by angrily grilling me over "just barging in" and not respecting people's privacy. Apparently he forgot that we were in the living room. FML
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DocBastard 40
******* "House". I can't watch that goddamned show. Doctors don't do their own pathology, give medicines, start IVs, take X-rays, do angiograms, or run the MRI. $@!% &*#%* £$!@ "#+*!
Zaros_fml 24
DocBastard has kids, eh?
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Comments (114)
beautious19 8
Hey! House is a good show... no matter how outrageous.
eyedea84 5
any real life occupation can be considered good, if written and acted out by people who have no basis of said occupation, and not to mention glamorous to the majority of the population. take a look at films about the military....... I served 8 years and the majority of military films are completely inaccurate.
buckeyed 20
As a teacher, I didn't find any inaccuracies. Except that I don't own a good pair of tighty whities.
JMichael 26
Should've watched supernatural
chocolatefrog28 29
Medical bloopers aside, Hugh Laurie is a pretty man... watch and enjoy for that reason alone.
skyeyez9 25
Both of my parents are physicians and one of their favorite shows was Scrubs.
Ray_of_midnight 23
Medical shows are notorious for crazy amounts of inaccuracies. I remember dating a pre-med who hated all the inaccuracies in the show E.R.
eyedea84 5
you and me both sir, my ex hated house and e.r. due to the fictional writing.
glabberfasted 16
Most medical professionals hate medical shows for that reason. It's almost impossible to make a medical show 100% accurate, simply because of the way shows are filmed.
djkazic 5
******* lupus. It's always lupus.
RabbitOfAurora 28
It's never lupus, except for that one time it was finally lupus.
cryssycakesx3 23
I loved that scene, where he hid his vic stash in the lupus book. "it's never lupus"
suri23 11
It's never sarcoidosis, lol!
Voij 16
That'd be similar to watching "The Core" with a physicist without trying to intentionally make him laugh about it. Or watching any volcano-related catastrophy flick with a geologist/someone who knows how lava works... since most movies try to create excitement and completely ignore the fact that an 85 year old can outrun lava as long as it's not flowing down a 30° decline.
badluckkirsten 4
show him nip tuck!