I keep getting recommendations for House, and I wanted to be really polite, because I know it's a popular show about someone with a disability who isn't angelic, but I hate the show. I don't hate it because the science is frequently wrong, which it is, but I can ignore that. The real reason I hate it is... well, I'll quote another comment I made on the same subject.
I have a rare chronic illness. I spent my entire childhood watching doctors tell my mother she was crazy, she was lying, I was crazy, I was lying, I was perfectly healthy, I was a spoiled brat trying to get attention, all because they didn't know what I had, and they didn't care. I can't watch a show about a doctor who doesn't care about his patients, believes they're all lying, and reduces them to their illnesses. After all that, when he figures out what they have and makes them all better, it feels cheep, hollow, and insulting.
I do understand what you're saying. On days when I'm sick and hurting, I tend to be very crabby indeed. Pain just makes me pissy and disinclined to move.
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Date: 2009-09-25 05:10 am (UTC)I have a rare chronic illness. I spent my entire childhood watching doctors tell my mother she was crazy, she was lying, I was crazy, I was lying, I was perfectly healthy, I was a spoiled brat trying to get attention, all because they didn't know what I had, and they didn't care. I can't watch a show about a doctor who doesn't care about his patients, believes they're all lying, and reduces them to their illnesses. After all that, when he figures out what they have and makes them all better, it feels cheep, hollow, and insulting.
I do understand what you're saying. On days when I'm sick and hurting, I tend to be very crabby indeed. Pain just makes me pissy and disinclined to move.