"The truth of the human condition is that everyone lies.
The only variable is about what."
Dr. Gregory House or House as we know him, the
misanthrope, anarchist, vindictive, arroganthead of Department of Diagnostic
Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital where he is mostly
assisted by a team of 3 doctors with whom he is often rude, constantly taunting
and interfering in their personal lives; he barely spends any time meeting his
patients as he believes that sick people always lie which gets in way of his diagnosing
the actual problem, he tries to avoid meeting his patients at all and delegates
this unimportant chore to his team, however when he does meet his patients, he
has been shown to display a terrible bedside manner as he hardly follows any
ethical considerations of his profession beingfilled with eternally blunt,
acerbic and sarcastic speech.
One might even say, the guy is a RAPID FIRE QUOTE MACHINE.
House is always prepared to take up cases that everyone else
has given up on, and has a ready urge to
perform risky tests and use unconventional, idiosyncratic methods of treatment,
this tendency of high risk behavior, also extends to himself as he is
frequently seen in the series conducting various medical experiments on himself,
excessively abusing vicodin, trying LSD, faking brain cancer, getting
hypnotized and overdosing on Alzheimer’s medication amongst many others;
It has been stated by Wilson, that House has Rubik’s Complex,
it is the PUZZLE which matters more to him, than the patient’s life, i.e. he is
more concerned with figuring out the problem rather than treating it, so at
times he continues to diagnose patients even after they are dead, however on
other occasions his obsession for solving the puzzle results in solutions even
in dreary health conditions, when the patient has no chance of surviving often
leading to a miraculous recovery of a passing life.
He flouts rules, openly disregarding authority and
perpetually asking his team to break into the house of his patients to gather
information about them, he doesn’t only weigh the scientific aspect of a diagnosis
but also the complexity of the patient’s emotional status.
Surprisingly this supposed selfish, self-absorbed and egocentric
in the last season fakes his own death to spend Wilson’s last five months with
him; Wilson asks House about what they will do when his cancer gets bad,
but House simply tells him that "cancer is boring".
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