In Popular Culture
The surgical sieve is frequently used by Gregory House, who is a physician in the TV series House in order to diagnose the diseases that his patients are suffering from. In some episodes various forms of the surgical sieve are scribbled onto House's whiteboard while his team struggle to diagnose difficult cases. In the episode 'Paternity' the mnemonic 'MIDNIT' is used to run through the sieve (metabolic, inflammation, degenerative, neoplastic, infection, trauma).
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