Revisiting House, M.D.
I have always loved this show, and I was devastated when it ended in 2012. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, House was a medical show. What set it apart from other medical shows was the main character, Gregory House, who was a brilliant diagnostician who took on all of the medical mystery cases. Cases no one else could solve. While trying to diagnose his patients, he frequently used unorthodox means, which usually led to clashes between him and his team and also the Dean of Medicine. Apparently Sherlock Holmes was the inspiration for House. Also, he’s a jackass. He really is. He’s blunt, sometimes cruel, and likes to play mind games with people. He frequently refused to actually talk/treat his patients directly. He’d send one of his team to do it. He had a three-person team of doctors. But he always ended up solving the case and saving the patients’ lives. Part of the brilliance of the show was the interpersonal relationships—how the doctors related to one another and how House related to them. There were a few romances, too, which made things interesting. But man, those medical illnesses (beware! Wikipedia link!) were sometimes crazy. I believe they were all real, too. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page on the show itself. Beware, you might lose hours there. You’ve been warned. The other thing is House’s addiction to Vicodin. He had some type of injury to his leg and uses a cane to walk and…