If you’re unlucky enough to be stricken with a rare medical condition, you’d better hope your doctor watches the right television show.
假如你不幸罹患了罕見疾病，你最好希望你的醫生看對了電視節目。
That was the lesson for one German man with severe heart failure and a puzzling mix of symptoms including fever, blindness, deafness and enlarged lymph nodes, which baffled doctors for months.
德國一名出現嚴重心臟衰竭，以及包括發燒、失明、失聰和淋巴結腫大等連串費解症狀的男子就學到了這個教訓，醫師們數月來對他的病情都束手無策。
The 55-year-old man was diagnosed only when he was referred to Dr. Juergen Schaefer, a fan of the U.S. television medical drama, "House.""After five minutes, I knew what was wrong," said Schaefer, who works at the Center for Undiagnosed Diseases in Marburg, north of Frankfurt.
這名55歲的男子直到被轉診給謝佛醫生後才被診斷出病因。謝佛是美國電視醫學戲劇影集「怪醫豪斯」的忠實影迷。「我5分鐘內就知道哪裡有問題，」謝佛說，他是法蘭克福北方馬堡市「疑難疾病中心」的醫師。
He said the man’s symptoms matched up almost perfectly with a patient on an episode in which the fictional Dr. Gregory House identified cobalt poisoning as the cause.
他說這名男子的症狀和其中一集影集裡的病人幾乎完全一致，影集中的豪斯醫生認出鈷中毒為病因。
Schaefer regularly uses the television series to teach medical students. When he saw the patient with heart failure in May 2012, he had recently prepared a lecture on the show’s cobalt poisoning case, where House’s future mother-in-law falls ill after receiving a faulty metal hip.
謝佛經常使用這部影集來為醫學院學生上課。當他在2012年5月為這名患者進行診療時，他才剛剛用影集裡的鈷中毒病例準備課堂演講內容，在這一集中，豪斯未來的岳母是在換上有瑕疵的金屬髖關節後才生病。
