Believe it or not, doctors are not unlike pilots. A LOT of what they do is a checklist. I was in the ER once and there was a guy coding in the next area. I could hear the doctor running thru his mantra of this, hold, that, hold, etc etc etc. After watching my mother go thru her last month of life in a hospital setting I learned even more. The out of the box thinking Dr House is a TV character. They know what they know, and whether or not it is due to lawyers (probably) they are not very likely to do anything so off the rails to save someone because of the fear of getting sued into oblivion if they are wrong. My skepticism is not irrational. In my later years, I want to be near a teaching hospital like UTK or Vanderbilt so as to get the freshest ideas about medicine, NOT in God's Waiting Room here in Florida.