Sherlock is a mad doctor?

MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK

It’s that magical time again! This week is…

DR. HOUSE

From House, M.D., House is the leading character (as the name of the show suggests) that specializes in helping patients that have unknown illnesses. He’s brilliant in this regard as he treats all cases as if they were a mystery, somehow always able to find out what it is in the end. He has a team of doctors that work under his wing, changing between the first three seasons and season four, that he uses to bounce ideas off of and come up with solutions.

House is one of the very odd cases that refuse to wear a lab coat, preferring not to stick out as a doctor. He also has a problem with his thigh, not only leading him to have an addiction to Vicodine but have to walk with a cane. It’s interesting in the show’s first episode that it’s pointed out by House that people, “Don’t like to be treated by a sick doctor.” House has many different theories about how people work and loves to use analogies when he’s explaining medical illnesses. His most notable catch phrase is, “Everybody lies,” where House will refuse to believe anything the patient says unless backed up by evidence.

The “mad” part about him would be his method of treatment, where he puts the patient at risk almost every episode to find out what’s wrong. This varies from giving patients untested medication that in theory should help them, causing patients to have seizures or heart attacks to find another symptom, bringing back a coma patient temporarily only to find out history about another patient, temporarily “killing” a young girl with cancer to do an operation that is impossible to do on a living being, and so many other things. He’s also been hinted at having Asperger's, but in all honesty, that’s the least of everyone’s worries.

Some fun facts about House, he’s actually played by a British man. It’s a little weird to be hearing interviews with the actor, being it’s almost like watching House make fun of the British.

Another interesting fact is that the show is inspired and based on the Sherlock Holmes series. House represents Holmes, who both are brilliant with mysteries, both have social issues (Sherlock is also an asshole), and both having drug addictions (Sherlock takes them when he’s not on the case, pretty much because he’s bored).

Wilson, House’s best friend and cancer doctor, represents Watson. They both have a history of having multiple relationships (Wilson constantly is dating someone. Watson, depending on how it’s interpreted, can have as few as two wives to many others throughout the Sherlock series.), they both are the “emotional” one (they’re both good with people and have a knack for calming people down).

There’s other parts of the show that relate to the Sherlock series, one good example would be the end of the second season. A patient shoots House. Though the name of the patient is never mentioned, in the end credits, the name for the character is specified as “Moriarty,” who is the notorious villain of the Sherlock series that matches Holmes with brilliance and at one point has a duel with him on top of a waterfall to kill him.

One last relationship between the two series is that House lives at 221B Baker Street. This is the same address Sherlock lives at.

SCIENTIFIC THEORIES

This time, I will be talking about the difference between a “mad doctor” and a “mad scientist.” It’s very important to be educated about the difference.

First off, a mad scientist suggest someone who is in the field of science, making inventions (such as death beams, robots, a brain switcher thing, ect.), chemicals, having a henchmen, being surrounded by lots of flashy things and machines that no one has any idea what they even do, and so on.

Now, a mad doctor is someone that is more in the field of medical treatment. These guys are a bit more creepy than quirky, as they do things such as experimenting on human bodies, replacing organs with robot parts, trying to bring back the dead, and so on. One example would be Jack the Ripper, another being the crazy guy from the Mickey Mouse cartoon “The Mad Doctor.”

The reason I choose to use the term “mad doctor” rather than “mad scientist” is that a mad scientist specifically targets the first group, with scientific experiments and all that fun stuff. “Mad doctor” can refer to both at once, being that it not only describes the weird medical doctors, but it also can have the scientists in this category too. Scientists are doctors, after all. Just different kinds of doctors. However, not all doctors are scientists.

In conclusion, the best term to use for this concept is “mad doctor,” not “mad scientist.”

EVIL CREATIONS

In this section, I will go on about things that I myself have created that relates to the field of mad doctery.

This week, I’ll be introducing the character pictured in the last Scientific Theories section: Dr. Jasper Zinc. He’s a character I’ve mad that fits into a story I make for comics.

Now, Jasper isn’t evil. It’s not to say he’s really that nice of a guy, either. His field of expertise is chemicals, being one of the best in his field of study with notable discoveries and is incredibly bright. Because of this, he’s pretty smug. I mean, ultra smug. He brags a lot. If you were in an elevator with him, you would suffocate in his ego. Then again, he wouldn’t be in the elevator in the first place because he’s claustrophobic.

The biggest detail about Jasper is that he’s got a sever temper issue. It doesn’t take much to make him angry and he has an unhealthy way of relieving stress (most if not all the time getting into fist fights over questionable arguments). Jasper is incredibly violent and is not afraid to swing first or even pull out a gun, though he’s a lousy shot. The best solution is to run away, because Jasper’s athletic ability is laughable at best. In a matter of seconds of chasing, Jasper will probably stop and wheeze from running too much. He also has a weight issue because he always gives into his sweet tooth. Don’t tease him if he’s hungry, though. He gets cranky. And violent.

Now, Jasper isn’t filled completely with bad qualities. He’s actually very reliable with situations and goes out of his way to make sure his friends and family are safe. This isn’t too difficult of a task for him, being he doesn’t exactly have a large array of friends because of his “quirks,” but those he does have he’ll defend to the very end.

Now if only he would stop trying to punch people when being sent to anger management.