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)
soccerstar1996 18
#44 how are you in med school if you're only 20?
sgcaudell 27
I love House. I'm a nurse, so I see the inaccuracies as well but laugh most of them off. Try to anyway. Sometimes it's hard. TV is generally horrible at depicting medical shows.
jh921971 10
Never show somebody a movie or tv show about their field. It's never accurate.
2074red2074 6
I actually read a book about House. Most of the medical stuff is theoretically possible, just extremely unlikely. A lot of it is actually inspired by real events. The only thing that is inaccurate is the way they handle the case and the way they act at the workplace.
NurseAbi 10
oh dear, really.ydi. you really deserve it. I'm not one to be mean, but medical shows are never a good thing for anyone who knows anything about medicine. I'm banned from watching any medical show with my family, I sit there pointing out what is inaccurate, it pisses them off. rookie mistake, but you deserve that one kidder.
SGodinet 9
Med School at age 20? Damn son you get it done
skilova4lifezzz 19
No!! House is awesome
CerSpence 11
Can't ever go wrong with Breaking Bad!
SkoomAddicted 17
I don't necessarily blame your dad.
TipTopCaduceus 11
Dude should get over it. I'm a historian. Guess how many inaccuracies I see in every single show/movie that takes place in the good old days? Reaaally doesn't have to make the experience any less enjoyable.