House - Love it, but is the premise at all valid?

[Agent_Foxtrot]

@Stoid

Briefly, I LOVE this story:

Woman has horrible reaction. ALL her skin sheds. This is virtually always fatal. Because this means ALL your skin, including every layer, your eyelids, the mucous membranes…everything. This woman was a nightmare. Evidently her agony is indescribable.

So, miraculously, she survives.

This is unheard of. But the expectation is that she will be hideously scarred, like a burn victim, since that’s pretty much what she looked like. She was just a raw open wound.

Well, turns out just the opposite occurred. She grew new skin from scratch and it was perfect. Like a brand new baby. Very delicate the first year or so she had to stay completely covered in the sun. But her dermatologist told her that she’s going to look half her age, because her skin really is new… she got to hit the “delete” button on 30 years of wear and tear on the skin.

I would never want to go through what she went through to get there, but GOD I envy how she came out the other side. One of the biggest bummers about being fat most of my life is that my skin is trashed. I will never be able to look like someone who was never fat, no matter how much surgery I might get, no one can. (It’s the great personal tragedy of weight loss. At least, weight loss after a long time of being fat.) But imagine losing all the weight, then being somehow able to shed your skin and grow a brand new, tight, unstretched, springy skin??

They will find a way to do it some day, long after I’m dead. I’m so jealous.

Do you have a cite for this, by any chance? I’d love to read about her.

[duality72]

@Agent_Foxtrot

Do you have a cite for this, by any chance? I’d love to read about her.

Don’t know if this is who **Stoid **was originally referring to, but here’s a linkI found about one such case.

Surprisingly, to me, the mortality rate for the condition is “only” 30-40% according to Wikipedia.

[alphaboi867]

@Dewey_Finn

…Perhaps the hospital’s lawyers would argue that the search by the doctors is permissible due to the immediate danger posed by the patient’s illness.

Either that or there’s a short clause in the paperwork the patient (or their next-of-kin) signs when they’re admitted.

[Fact_of_the_Matter]

Here is a link to a doctors review of each shows medicine http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html