By Dr. John Sotos, Special to CNN

updated 8:08 AM EDT, Mon May 21, 2012

The TV show "House M.D." showed many ways the human body can malfunction.

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Editor's note: Dr. John Sotos, medical technical adviser for the television series "House M.D.," is a cardiologist and computer scientist based in Silicon Valley. He is the author of three books: "Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnosis," "The Physical Lincoln" and "The Physical Lincoln Sourcebook."

(CNN) -- I'm proud of the medical work we did on "House." Each week (for a total of 177), we showed millions of people a different, insidious way the human body can malfunction and how physicians might figure out the problem.

And the ratings prove that we made it interesting.

We paid a lot of attention to accuracy. But rather than creating an onscreen textbook of medicine, the writers constructed and inhabited a modified universe in which probabilities and time were severely stretched but not broken.

Dramatists have been doing this since Aeschylus, 2,500 years ago, so I don't feel the need to apologize for it.

I'm especially proud that we did not dumb down the medicine. In fact, we often made it extraordinarily complicated, bending Occam's razor in every possible manner.

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