TV show House M.D. saved a patient in Germany when doctors remembered watching the same symptoms in an episode.
A team of German doctors report in the medical journal Lancet that they used clues remembered from an episode of House to figure out what was wrong with a man who had severe heart failure.
The unidentified 55-year-old patient had symptoms including fever, swollen lymph nodes, hearing loss and vision loss when he showed up in May 2012 at the Center for Undiagnosed Diseases in Marburg. He also had a metal hip implant, which had been put in as a replacement for a broken ceramic hip implant in 2010.
Luckily, his doctors were not only House fans but actually had used a relevant episode of the drama to train medical students. As the doctors note in their case report, it was episode 11 of season 7.