TV’s ‘Dr House’ helps solve real-life medical mystery

His heart started failing, his sight and hearing deteriorated, he suffered from acid reflux, swollen lymph nodes and an inexplicable fever. Only Dr Gregory House, TV's misfit medical genius, could solve the mystery: the cause was an eroded prosthetic hip. The patient had been referred to Marburg's Centre for Undiagnosed Diseases in May 2012. Poring over his medical history, the team found a past that was uneventful… apart from a double hip replacement.