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Date Posted: 06:12:38 04/13/08 Sun
Author: Janelle
Subject: Mirror, Mirror

I was watching "House", the episode titled "Mirror, Mirror" yesterday and I was fascinated that the patient's mystery illness, which caused amnesia, also caused him to mimic those around him, they referred to it as mirror syndrome. Instead of admitting that he didn't remember who he was or what he did, the patient would get cues from those around him, specifically House and the other doctors, and imitate one of them, assuming their identity as his own. TO prove his diagnosis, House give the patient scrubs and takes him into the OR. Once there the patient genuinely believed he was a doctor, imitated Dr. Wilson who was performing surgery, grabbed a scalpel and nearly cut into the patient undergoing surgery.

Depending on who was in the room, the patient would change his voice (to be gruffer like House's or softer like a woman's), his manner of speech, and even his personality to fit those around him. It was actually scary how well he was able to "read" people. Often he would have little to no information to go on and yet it was an uncanny resemblance, leading one of the diagnostic team to go out on assignment to avoid being "read" by the patient. It was also interesting that, if there was more than one person in the patient's room, he would mimic the one with the most dominating personality.

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Re: Mirror, Mirror -- JD Reed, 17:38:00 04/13/08 Sun