So I am back to blogging after a long while. And it looks like I will be gone for long again given the new challenges that are going to manifest soon at my work. A lot has happened since the last time I posted here. I made a trip with Nirva to Ho Chi Minh city (I will make posts devoted solely to that trip later). I accepted a new role at my job and it is already feeling way too challenging. But in this post, I am just going to talk about something I had intended to do about 2-3 weeks back - having finished watching seasons 1 to 3 of House.
Yes, I have finally finished watching the 3 seasons of House. And I must say I was really really hooked. I think House is a very interesting character - different from what the TV shows throw up normally. I do admire him in some ways, although I do find him obnoxious in many other ways as well. Thanks to the series though that I learned so many new medically-related terms - I learned of diseases I had never heard before like Auto-immune disorder, African sleeping sickness, tuberous sclerosis, lupus, Cushing's disease; I learned of medical procedures that were completely unknown to me like entebation; I learned of new viruses and amoebas like Epstein-Barr virus and Naeglaria Fowleri (skin eating amoeba) and I heard of new medicines like IVIG, broad spectrum antibiotics and interferon. I think overall the series balances real medicine with drama quite brilliantly. One of my favorite episodes is the 2-part story of the laughing cop (titled "Euphoria") where Foreman also gets infected with the same disease and somehow the team finds at the neck of time that it was Naeglaria Fowleri. The tension was really cutting-edge throughout the 2 episodes, and you get to see one of the very few times that House does care. I thoroughly enjoyed almost all the episodes of Season 1 and 2, although the quality of the series did go down a bit during Season 3.
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