Wrong Diagnosis In The News

The diagnosis: Of all the TV dramas airing this season, my favorite is FOX's "House." The show stars British actor Hugh Laurie as a misanthropic genius with a knack for diagnosing complex medical mysteries. Each episode, Dr. Gregory House writes the patient's puzzling symptoms on a whiteboard and consults his team of specialists, always identifying the disease just in time to save the patient ...

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A family want answers after their 23-month-old boy died a day after being sent home from Wanganui Hospital.

N athan Suerdieck thought it was all a dream.

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With her beautiful blue eyes and a smile to melt your heart, at eight months old Jessica Gledhill is everything you could wish for in a baby. But gorgeous though she is, for her parents Donna and Dave there are more important reasons to be grateful for their precious daughter.

This week on Fox's House (Tuesdays at 8 pm/ET), an impatient patient takes hostages at Princeton-Plainsboro until what ails him can be determined. So complex is his diagnosis, and so taut is the tension, that the hour-long drama demands an extra seven minutes to unspool (so adjust your DVR).