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

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

Severus Snape, alchemist, professor, Headmaster, potions master. I am unfamiliar with most non-magical medication, though medical technology is peripherally known to me. I am not a healer, I am a scientist - though that likely carries a different connotation than your standard medical background.

I am but avoiding your displacement.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

You're inferiority complex is showing. You could have just said potions professor. Alchemy is implied. It's okay. You're still a jerk.

Good that we got the differential under headway. Results will be in tomorrow. Check for them or not. I don't care.

Play shrink with me and you'll get it back.

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

You guessed Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis before prion infection. For me to assume you understand anything about the science of potion making would be lax.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

By virtue of the fact that he said his head was bleeding and before consulting about family. Have you ever done a differential diagnosis before?

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

Have you ever worked with anything outside the scope of pills and patterns before?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Patterns. Infectious diseases hardly pick out days in the year to go take a trip in my office. What the hell do you think a doctor is?

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

Patterns. Blood, symptoms, irregularities.

A doctor is someone who uses my diagnoses, apparently.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Irregularities have similarities and it has to be narrowed down. It isn't all patters.

And you haven't done a differential diagnosis before or else you wouldn't be so butt hurt.

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

Consider it beginner's luck.

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

Consider it part of the process. You'll get a booklet.

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

How joyous. Did you write it?

[vicodincrutch.livejournal.com]

No actually. This was by the same author of Go, Dog, Go. What do you think?

The City edition is mine.

[eduronox.livejournal.com]

I think quite a bit.