Dr. House

Gregory House

House's unorthodox methods of diagnosis, alternative therapies, and unconditional rationality result in several conflicts with his professional colleagues.[7] House is often portrayed as lacking sympathy and compassion toward his patients, a practice that allows him to solve pathological puzzles. The character is inspired by Sherlock Holmes.[8][9] An example of this is that although the detective was addicted to cocaine, the doctor is addicted to vicodin to control the pain in his leg, derived from a muscle infarction. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him "the most shocking character to hit television in years"[10] and in 2008 he was voted the second sexiest doctor of all time, behind Dr. Doug Ross ( George Clooney) from the series ER.[11] Hugh Laurie has won several awards for his performance, including two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series, and was nominated for an Emmy in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. TV Overmind has named the character "Best Character." television of the last decade"[12] and within the list of the 100 best characters, TV Guide considers him the best of all time.

Gregory House

Gregory House is the main character of the series House MD (2004-2012), played by British actor Hugh Laurie. A doctor by profession, specializing in infectious diseases and nephrology, the character leads a diagnostic team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro University Hospital. He has high intellectual abilities, with an IQ estimated at 158 ​​according to many fans, [5] although he is described as bitter, sarcastic, cynical, manic at times, misanthropic, narcissistic, and curmudgeonly. Precisely, this last adjective was one of the most popular words in 2006 thanks to the character of the series' protagonist. Gregory House is the son of John and Blythe House.[4] His father was a military pilot (colonel) who was transferred to various places around the world [13]. One of the countries where the family lived was Egypt, where House became fascinated by archaeology, alchemy and treasures, which remained until his adulthood.[14] Another place of residence was the archipelago of Japan, where, at the age of fourteen, House discovered his vocation for medicine when he witnessed the respect enjoyed by a doctor belonging to the lower social class of the buraku to whom they attended. various doctors when they did not know how to cure their patient.[15] House loves his mother but hates his father, whom he calls his "insane moral compass," and deliberately tries to avoid both parents.[13] At one point, House relates a story of his parents leaving him in the care of his grandmother, whose punishments amounted to child abuse.[16] He later confesses that it was his father who abused him.[16] In season five, when his father dies, House suspects that the deceased was not his biological father. Very shortly before the funeral, the doctor decides to remove a fragment of the corpse's ear and perform a DNA test: finally, the test shows that John House was not his real father.

Gregory House

Gregory House received his doctorate, specializing in infectious diseases, at Johns Hopkins University.[17] During his time at university, he was caught cheating on an exam by a classmate named Philip Weber, who ultimately got him expelled. Because of this, House continued his studies at the University of Michigan and there he met Lisa Cuddy, with whom he had a one-night affair and who would later become his boss. Almost ten years before the beginning of the series, in the 90s, Dr. House met a lawyer named Stacy Warner (Sela Ward) at a paintball game where lawyers competed against doctors and they began a relationship. Five years later, during a golf game, the doctor suffered a heart attack in the quadriceps of his right leg and was not correctly diagnosed for the first three days, due to doctors' concerns about his behavior as a drug addict. . In the end, House diagnosed himself: an aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to a heart attack and causing his muscle to become immobile. House underwent a bypass on his leg to restore blood circulation, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. House was then placed in a coma, to sleep without pain, but Stacy acted against his will and authorized a safer surgery between amputation and a bypass, removing the dead muscle. As a result, House partially lost the use of his leg and the pain became chronic, having to walk with a cane; he takes vicodin very frequently to avoid pain. House had not been able to forgive Stacy for making such a decision, so she left him.

Gregory House

At the beginning of the third season, House temporarily regains the ability to walk and run after specialized treatment. However, the chronic pain in his leg returns, so House returns to Vicodin and the cane. When Stacy makes her first appearance in the series, she is married to a school counselor named Mark Warner (Currie Graham).[21] Although House and Stacy spend time together again and reunite briefly during the second season, House tells her ex-girlfriend to get back with her husband, which leaves her devastated. Dr. Gregory House works at Princeton-Plainsboro University Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, under Director Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and as head of a diagnostic team. His best and only friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), who is head of the oncology department. The doctors on House's team are, during the first three seasons of the series, Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer). At the end of the third season, the team disbanded. During the fourth season, House slowly selected three new members: Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn). During the fifth season, Kutner commits suicide by shooting himself in the head, leaving the other members of the team completely distraught.

Gregory House

Because of House's unconventional methods with his patients and his controversial insights, he often gets into arguments with his boss. However, even despite the demands that House's team accumulates, Cuddy refuses to fire him and considers him one of the best doctors at the hospital. During the fifth season, although it seems that the doctor and his boss have a romantic relationship, House discovers that it is his imagination caused by excessive use of Vicodin. Therefore, he decides to voluntarily enter the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital and realizes something: the only thing that controls the pain in his leg is solving the medical puzzles. Back at Princeton-Plainsboro, House recognizes that he is in love with her boss and decides to win her over. However, her efforts are of no avail: she is in a relationship with Lucas Douglas (Michael Weston), a detective House hired in the past to spy on Wilson. In the last episode of the sixth season, House goes to a building collapsed by a crane. There, under the rubble, he finds a girl named Hanna who needs to be treated: her leg is under the remains of the building. House, who ends up establishing a friendship with her, refuses to amputate her leg, but in the end he has no choice. What the doctor does not imagine is that the girl will die from a fat embolism caused by said amputation and that leaves him frustrated. Already at his house, House decides to take Vicodin again and, just at that moment, Cuddy arrives. She tells him that she has left Lucas and that she is actually in love with him.

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During the first half of season seven, House confronts Cuddy's mother and discovers that she and her daughter don't get along very well. Furthermore, although he initially believes that Rachel—the little girl Cuddy adopted—is stupid, he eventually grows fond of her. But everything changes when Cuddy falls ill and House relapses on Vicodin due to all the anxiety he suffers. She decides to break up with him, since she wanted to be with a person who she could really feel and share her pain. The breakup causes House to do risky or stupid things, just to distract himself from his bitterness: he jumps into a pool from a hotel balcony or marries a Ukrainian woman named Dominika (Karolyna Widra) so that she can obtain residency in the United States. . However, the most serious thing is that House steals an experimental medicine, tested only on rats, which aims to restore damaged nerves and muscles. However, when he discovers that this medicine causes malignant tumors in the affected areas, he discovers that he has three in his leg. Shortly after, at night he tries to remove them in the bathtub of his bathroom, but when he fails, he calls all of his trusted acquaintances as an emergency and the only one who answers his call is his ex-partner. from him, Cuddy. She takes him to the hospital, where he receives emergency treatment and makes sure, at House's request, that his leg is not amputated unless strictly necessary. In the morning House wakes up in the hospital, fairly recovered, and talks to Wilson. He asks her to stop doing nonsense and start actually facing his pain. House talks to Cuddy and tells her how frustrated and hurt he feels.

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When House decides to accept their breakup, as a symbolism, he decides to give Cuddy a hairbrush back. When he arrives at the doctor's house and sees that she has an appointment, he goes crazy and crashes his car in the middle of her boss's living room. She decides to leave the hospital and he, even though he escapes from the United States, is arrested and goes to prison. In the eighth and final season of the series, House, after time in prison, returns to Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital at the request of his new boss, who is none other than his former subordinate Eric Foreman. Chase and Taub will continue working on the new team, who will be joined by doctors Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) and Jessica Adams (Odette Annable). In the final stretch of the season, his best friend, Wilson, confesses that he has cancer and that he has little time to live. House, after accidentally collapsing the hospital's pipes and destroying part of the infrastructure, is accused of vandalism by the police, for which he runs the risk of returning to prison again and not being able to accompany Wilson in his last months of life. life; Even so, House continues working and finds a patient with drug addiction problems with whom he immediately identifies.

Gregory House

In the last episode of the series, House finally disappears from the hospital to avoid being arrested. The doctor wakes up in a burning building, after having consumed heroin with his drug-addicted patient, who ends up dying from an overdose. In the midst of despair, House experiences hallucinations with two people from his past (Dr. Amber Volakis and Dr. Lawrence Kutner) who will help him solve the enigma of how he got to his current situation and who will lead him to reflect on his problems now. Decide whether to continue living or let yourself die. Apparently, House doesn't make it out of the burning place alive. At his funeral, Wilson gives a speech in which he praises (and also criticizes) his best friend. At that moment, he receives a revealing message on his cell phone that says: "Shut up, idiot!" It is House, who has faked his death so as not to return to prison and to be able to enjoy the last five months of his life with Wilson. After this, Wilson meets with House, who explains how he faked his death. Wilson tells House that he is ruining his life, that after he dies he will no longer be able to practice medicine and that he will spend years in prison. House replies: "I'm dead, Wilson. How do you want to spend your last months of life? Because House has left Princeton-Plainsboro, Dr. Robert Chase becomes the new head of the diagnostic department.

Gregory House

In the next sequence House and Wilson appear on a highway bridge with their motorcycles. Wilson begins to declare out loud: "When the cancer starts to get really bad...", but House interrupts him: "Cancer is boring," he says. The two then get on the motorcycles and ride away down the road. The House character frequently displays his cunning and incisive wit in eccentric ways. He enjoys separating people and often makes fun of their weaknesses. House precisely deciphers people's stories based on their appearance or their personality. Dr. James Wilson says that "while some doctors have the Messiah complex, House has the "Rubik's Cube" complex; he needs to solve the riddle. House generally waits as long as possible before meeting his patients, although he prefers not to. When he sees them, he displays unorthodox methods and uses unconventional treatments. However, he surprises them with quick and accurate diagnoses, after it seems like he wasn't paying attention. This ability is demonstrated in a scene where House diagnoses an entire waiting room in less than a minute, while he is leaving the hospital.

Gregory House

His character is generally attributed to chronic pain in his leg (as a result of a heart attack) for which he requires a cane. According to Stacy Warner, his ex-girlfriend, he was similar before the heart attack, while his boss Lisa Cuddy stated that before the surgery he was "annoyingly self-centered and narcissistic, just like he is today." Because of chronic pain in his leg, House takes Vicodin every day, and as a result has developed an addiction to the drug.[28] He accepts that he has an addiction, but says that it is not a problem because it does not interfere with his work or his life.[29] He has high intellectual abilities,[5] with an IQ estimated at 158. As a polyglot, House speaks English, French, Spanish,[18] Portuguese,[30] Hindi,[17] Mandarin[31] and Russian.[ 32] He listens to jazz and rock, plays piano and guitar (as does Hugh Laurie) and has an interest in vintage electric guitars. House is an avid video game player, enjoys attending monster truck shows with Wilson, and is a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Flyers. He is also (like Laurie) a motorcyclist: he drives a Honda CBR1000RR Repsol Edition, with license plate Y91, which is seen in "Swan Song", "Help Me", "Deception" and "Post Mortem"; Additionally, he also drives a Dodge Dynasty sedan.

Gregory House

He is an atheist and anti-theist, so he openly mocks colleagues or patients who show any level of belief in any religious aspect.[33][34] He prefers not to believe in life after death, because he would make life "a test." House frequently says "everyone lies", but he jokingly remarked that he was lying when he had said that in the last episode of the first season.[35] House criticizes social protocol for its lack of rational purpose and its little usefulness. In one episode, he explains how much he envied an autistic patient because society allowed the patient to forget the refinements he had to undergo. Later in the same episode, Dr. Wilson suggests that House suffers from Asperger's syndrome, which is characterized by a number of symptoms present in House, such as difficulty accepting social rules, his arrogance, and his resistance to change. , etc. House frequently hires prostitutes, an activity for which Dr. Wilson frequently reprimands him. He has tried all kinds of drugs, even consuming LSD to cure a migraine, and he has even performed experiments and operations on himself to test some theory, such as when he tried to "half kill himself" to check if heaven or hell really existed. .

Gregory House

House is a strong nonconformist and gives very little importance to other people's opinions of him.[36] Throughout the series, he displays a sardonic disdain towards authority figures. House displays a constant indifference to his own appearance, having a permanent beard and dressing casually in jeans and a t-shirt. He avoids wearing the traditional white coat to prevent patients from recognizing him as a doctor [37]. House does not have a very active social life, and his only friend is Dr. James Wilson.[25][36] Wilson knew House before his heart attack and took care of him when House's relationship with Stacy ended.[27] The fact that Dr. Wilson moves into House's apartment after his failed marriage symbolizes the emotional refuge he finds in his friend.[38] Although they frequently analyze and criticize each other, Wilson has risked his career to protect House. He has silently admitted, in several instances, that he appreciates Wilson's presence, even naming him as his best friend. When Wilson quits his job and his friendship with House and moves away from New Jersey in season five, House becomes desperate to win back his friend, hiring a private detective to pursue him. They eventually reconcile at House's father's funeral.

Gregory House

A further example of this takes place in the sixth season, in which Wilson, upon being committed to a patient, decides to donate part of his liver and requests House's presence at the time of the operation, to which at first He refuses, arguing that if he loses it he will be truly alone. House's ringtones on his cell phone are "MMMBop" by Hanson for calls to his diagnostic team, and "Dancing Queen" by ABBA for his only friend, James Wilson.