If you search the archives at Slate (I'd do it, but I'm on my way out the door for a childbirth class), there's an article on House by, IIRC, a doctor, who has many of the same complaints that you do, and points out that no way no how would that be allowed in the reality the writer lives in.
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Date: 2005-02-17 12:51 am (UTC)