As I am posting this from a hospital waiting room (it's pretty cool that they have public internet terminals here
), there were at least 2 things that are glaring examples that House is a
completely fictional show. 1) The doctors are the ones who actually perform the tests/scans, and not JoeBob the technician. 2) Although I have not seen every single episode, I have not once heard "the HMO will not cover that procedure".