House and Philosophy by Irwin William; Jacoby Henry

Author:Irwin, William; Jacoby, Henry [Irwin, William; Jacoby, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780470730201
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Published: 2009-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

House: Chase told me about that idea you had, the parents holding the baby. Where’d you get that? Did you lose someone? Did you lose a baby?

Cameron: You can be a real bastard.

And again in “Que Sera Sera”:

House: All right, I give up, who was it? Who in your family had the weight problem?

Cameron: You think I can only care about a patient if I know someone else who’s been through the same thing?

House doesn’t believe the relationship between doctor and patient entails the responsibility to care. When, on rare occasion, House does genuinely care for one of his patients it’s largely because he sees aspects of himself in the patient, or recognizes that they share an experience or history. For example, in “Half-Wit,” House’s patient Patrick is a man who, as a result of a brain injury in childhood, plays the piano masterfully. House’s connection with Patrick is fostered by his own love of playing the piano. Similarly, House’s own experience of becoming suddenly impaired creates a connection with Stacy’s partner Mark, who becomes temporarily disabled and seeks House’s advice (“Need to Know”). In the absence of parallels between patients’ circumstances and his own life, House just doesn’t seem to care for his patients at all.

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