Over on the Lupus forum someone asked about Tara Palmer Tomkinson and what sort of vasculitis she had had. I looked at some of the reports and finally suggested "So at a guess it was Wegeners or Churg-Strauss syndrome ..."
I gather that is what Dr House says (No idea, I've never watched it).
Which led to the other lady saying "If only he were real...."
He personally isn't - but to go with all the poor doctors we hear and write about there are these:
discovermagazine.com/2007/m...
content.time.com/time/healt...
Enjoy reading about them.