Russian doctors urged to emulate medical drama House

One of Moscow’s deputy mayors has urged Russian doctors to model themselves on the characters from House, the hit US medical drama.

Leonid Pechatnikov, head of Moscow’s public health department, praised the TV series in an interview with local radio station Govorit Moskva last week, saying: “I particularly love the show House, M.D., which shows the real work of doctors. There’s never a time when they lose a single moment: they do one test, then another, some research, a rapid diagnosis followed by speedy treatment and patients only stay in hospital if they are seriously ill.”

Pechatnikov remarked that people “are admitted to hospital to get emergency or routine care, rather than to wait weeks for analyses and consultants”, adding that hospitals in the Russian capital should run on the same level of speed and quality as in the show.

Earlier this year, British actor Hugh Laurie, who plays Dr House in the series, was criticised by Russian media after he called for a boycott of Russian vodka in protest to the anti-gay propaganda law enacted in Russia last year.

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