044. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

SYMPTOM(S): Uncontrollable Laughter
                          Chest Pain
                          Clumsiness
                          Which caused cranial bleeding.

POSSIBLE DIAGNOSIS:
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis--it explains the chest pains, clumsiness and the laughter. The curse is accelerating the effects the degeneration process of the disease, usually it's a lot more slow. Search for DNA abnormalities or any hereditary link.

Pseudobulbar palsy onset by a tumor in the high brain stem or motor neurone diseases that would cause the disorder int he brain stem and spinal column.

Dementia (scribbled in) by Kuru causes the laughter as well as the inability to cooperate. The laughter would be causing the chest pains all the way down to clumsiness if that's the case.

CJD-?

The first two are not entirely treatable. A sample of tricyclic antidepressants would rule out dementia.

[ooc;  Curse or not, he'd want to diagnosis this. Since House is kind of an investigatory doctor, for nowit is just ruling out different diagnosiseses since tomorrow is OH SNAP THIS ISN'T NORMAL day. Any questions, comments or things I shouldn't be doing plz do AIM me. That's why God LJ made edits.]

Comments

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

I only want him to shut up, Mom. Working on an alternative and a new diagnosis. A friend came over to play.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't know any shrinks. We used to have one somewhere.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

Where did you find him, son? What about laboratory tests and samples? Do we have one? I think we should begin there before medicating him and if he has or not taken high doses of alcohol or drugs. Introduce me to your friend.

Doctor Lecter had opened a psychiatrist when he was in the City, but it closed down once he left.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Laughing like an idiot on the network. Turns out he is an idiot but the laughter is something else. Right now the diagnosis is CJD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease), an MRI will tell if that's close.

Ha! That's a great one, I didn't think you had it in you.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

Where is he now? Where was he located before he was taken to observation? If you don't have a scanner, you are free to employ the one in Radiology of the Hospital.

Ah, I'm sorry? I should say "thanks" but your answer makes me perplexed.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Laughing Boy is with me. He was at his apartment before. Answers are hard to pull out when he's a comedian's one person audience. Thanks. I'll fax the test results. You have someone with the giggles too?

...Hannibal Lecter was here? Really?

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

Have you sent anybody to see his apartment? I heard cryptic mentions of food and doors as possible causes all over the Network. None, so far. Plenty throwing out and others suffering a coughing fit.

Yes, he was. Is he famous?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

No, not yet. Food is one of the prime suspects. But doors? Fill me in on that.

Most cannibals are.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

I know for good faith that a green substance applied to metal surface of the door handle in an unconsciousness case. But is debatable if this applies to any of the other ill. The situation is very complicated. So many enemies, could be a terrorist attack with a perfect timing.

Doctor Lecter? That charming young man is a cannibal?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Huh. Green. Who is on that?

He's a sociopath if you want to split hairs, but yes.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

The police and... I believe an old colleague of mine would be looking up this.

That isn't so uncommon in here.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Check the lungs if you haven't already. I'm curious.

I hope you mean sociopaths.

[holymadonna.livejournal.com]

When I visit him. He's homerest and I'm unable to move from the Hospital. Unless the substance had any silver nitrate, the good boy would recover soon.

I did.