Warning: very nitpicky post. I'm a PMS victim; I guess that's where this came from. It's all true, however. To my knowledge, anyway.

House is a great series for the slash and the angst, the snarky, biting sarcasm and the cute oncologists, but the medicine? The medicine's... weird. House just treated a pneumothorax by putting in a chest tube. What happened to the nifty long needle that gets jammed into the patient's chest and makes the lung pop? It's easier and faster than a chest tube, and it doesn't leave a scar. And House knew the guy had a pneumothorax because he explained it before putting in the chest tube - instead of just using the medical term and avoiding wasting time the guy he was treating might not have had - so he didn't put in the chest tube because he thought the guy was bleeding into his chest. He knew the nifty long needle would have done the job.

( More nitpicking? )