Cuddy blew it, this wasn’t a normal case, it was House’s first case off Vicodin. Getting it right would prove to himself that he could still be an effective doctor without pain, but he kept 2nd guessing himself because he thought he was wrong
Absolutely correct. The best kind of correct. House is a completely logical creature. If he had realized he was as smart without vicodin he would've most likely stayed off of it for good. Cuddy and Wilson screwed up big time.
@@as7river He could've also tried to handle more than one case at a time. This was maybe the only episode where I recall him selecting to work on more than one patient at the same time. However Cuddy and Wilson are just so sanctimonious, especially to House, they're used to worrying about keeping his ego in check before helping him to manage his drug problem. Yes maybe there were future lives at stake, but certainly House' was, this perspective may have never been considered by the writers at any point in this episode. Either his ego would be too inflated from how he solved this case, or he would still simply be the same House, recognizing how lucky he was, ESPECIALLY with Cuddy or Wilson pointing it out, without the vicodin, leg pain managed. Both perspectives seem fairly consistent of how House was written up to that point imo.
@@ListlessLonerWillfulWonder wasn't this the episode that was part of his heroin-induced hallucination? and the reason his conclusion didn't make sense was because it wasn't real?
This is a great message to send. Trust the guy when he's loaded with painkillers but dont trust him when he's sober. Not sure who is on drugs, house or cuddy and wilson.
As someone who's had to deal with an addict for over ten years, I'm completely behind the message in this show. House wasn't just sober, he was in withdrawal. At that point, a person does not act rationally. At the worst of times, they'll do whatever it takes to get their high, sometimes including verbal or physical abuse towards their loved ones, even things like blackmail. At the best of times, they're repressing the urge to do all of those things, and not thinking rationally or making good decisions as a result of that. House did this because he couldn't get Vicodin, and he needed a fix, so he turned to puzzles to get that fix. Normally, substituting an addictive substance with something like puzzles would be a good alternative, letting them distract themselves from their withdrawal with a productive pursuit, but not when House's puzzles are human lives. Rewarding that behaviour would have been detrimental to both him and those he's treating in the long run. The show has a very faithful portrayal of addiction in particular with the character of House, which implies a lot of meticulous research and/or experience, so I'm certain they knew all of this. I stand by Wilson and Cuddy's decision.
neither of them... they're actors. I'm the one with the opioid problem. For fucks sake, I spend my free time waving a wooden stick and saying arcane latin phrases! wait... so does house. perhaps he is a wizard
@@krukblood-axe3649 you're completely wrong on House. House has an intellectual ability that far exceeds Cuddy and Wilson. He didn't need a high, he was just doing his job. He was on Vicodin, not Heroin. After 3 months he would have been totally off the drugs and not in withdrawal. Withdrawal from Vicodin might last 2 weeks at max. Does it take the brain time to regulate Oxytocin after not getting it artificially? Yes, but it wouldn't affect his thinking after 3 months. After taken Vicodin for years, it just keeps the pain away. Your body gets used to it and it does nothing to get you high any longer.
It was so evil to not tell House, the man's in enough torment already, and he seems to get real joy out of seeing other people make recoveries. (Even if he disguises it as only enjoying the puzzle) House isn't a bad guy, and should not be denied happiness.
Yeah, especially as it could have shown him he doesn’t need Vicodin to be a good doctor and cure his patients. Also, as a doctor, if there is a potential way to cure someone with little to no downsides, it’s downright evil not to try it. It’s like ex iuvantibus treatment
Not really. You dont give treatment because there no downside, you give it because its needed. The point is that regardless of how house got his idea, his idea made some sense and had merit and was at least based somewhat on the facts of the case. Cuddys initial decision was not based on medicine at all. Wasnt even based on the patient. She made the wrong call. Then wavered. Then doubled down. Just like a woman.
@@metamorphicorder You could always explain the treatment to the family and give them the option "harmless treatment that might let him live a completely normal life or no treatment and he stays as he is" I reckon the family would sue immediately if they found out that this treatment existed and was not offered.
I know, I hated that part. It pissed me off, like any other time he was right, everyone was fine with it. Why now say "he was lucky"? That doesn't make any sense. And "just because he's right doesn't mean he's wrong"? Yes it does. They are literal opposite words. I wanted to punch him in the face. And Cuddy did have a good, valid medical reason to give him cortisol: the same reasons House gave her. She was just trying to downplay him. I get that House acts like a jerk 90% of the time, but that doesn't mean that he deserves this from the people he trusts. Just despicable
If I was this patient and found out that a doctor correctly guessed a treatment that could work, and had no down side, and the boss refused to administer the treatment, even for a minute, I would sue the shit out of that hospital
And if the doctor made another bad decision purely on a hunch or feeling, would you let him off? I doubt injecting him would have had no downside, else they would've just done it and end of episode. At this point, the family was pissed at House as they generally are after the typical 2 or 3 bad diagnostics, they weren't about to approve another experiment.
@@Bilcosby123 idiotic reply. If there is 100% no down side, providing a potential medical cure is logical. The human race evolved and modernized medicine for these situations. It would be stupid not to use it.
@@ryanmohan3041 That's not how it works completely. Regarding treatment, he (or in this case his family) would have to consent to a treatment, have the treatment explained to them with the nature, risks, benefits, and side effects, and what reasoning that treatment would be administered. @bilcosby123 is closer in generalizing "requiring medical proof" than you are arbitrarily shutting him down over some idealism of "having human race evolving and having modernized medicine". The whole point, in the show, was that you can't just act on hunches but have to have some form of proof. Which is why Foreman was fired when he worked on a hunch and cured a patient when he worked for the other hospital.
As an ER nurse and former surgical nurse, a no-risk treatment suggested by the most brilliant doctor in our hospital would never in a million years be denied by anyone in any organization I’ve ever worked at. They’d just be like “Ok, try it.”
To me, the scene of Richard standing up is one of best moments of the whole show. Performing a literal biblical miracle, and then Cuddy and Wilson deny him that satisfaction just hurts so much. It would've proved to House that he can solve cases not high on vicodin. It was a win he needed, but they kept from him.
I always thought that this was an extremely poor decision on Wilson's part. Everyone's high on something, and House finally got high on something much better than Vicodin -- solving problems. He was finally starting to rediscover his creativity, and Wilson's decision shut him down.
This! Wilson was fucking wrong on this one. House needed this victory to know he can still do his job without pain medication. Fucking ego at its finest here.
I always found it kind of silly and stupid that when House was always high, they let him do whatever he wanted. But once he got clean and was fully functional, THATS when they chose to not trust his judgement? lol yeah, thats how you push people into relapse, folks. Whats the point in being sober if thats when people suddenly choose not to trust you? Its supposed to be the other way around. And on top of that, saying 'no' just on principal to teach House a lesson, even though like House said,"Theres no risk." Denying a man the chance at a normal life just to stick it to House? Talk about,"Killing two kids with one stone because you missed the bird you were aiming for." Not to mention that she did it anyway and DIDNT tell House about it because Wilson stopped her lol wtf Wilson?
I've been on a House binge these last 2 weeks and honestly, over and over again everyone around him utterly betrays him after they force him into situations he is not suited for but apparently that's justified because he's addicted to pain killers. I'm almost done with season 3 and how any of them still have the gall to lecture him when every time he gets into trouble they either abandon or betray him. They take advantage of his gift as a doctor while continuing to push and prod him instead of just leaving him the hell alone to pursue his work. His outlook on life is entirely justified, everyone around him constantly abuse, manipulate or take advantage of him, but oh no, he's mean and rude so it's apparently it's okay to fuck him over.
It's a show, with fake situations and almost everything is made up for entertainment, you took it a step further and took it personal 😢😢 you need to separate real situations from pretending ones.
@@axelpalacios9232 Any feeling anyone has about anything is personal. If you don't like a character that's personal, if you don't like what a character did that's personal. What makes you think I'm insulted on behalf of the character or that I'm unable to separate fiction from reality? Your comment is such a basic bitch statement that says nothing at all that I'm wondering if you have anything to say at all.
@@axelpalacios9232 A good show should make you feel, you should connect to the characters, emphasise with them, it's still easy to separate fact from fiction, but while you're watching it you should be fully immersed in the world that's been created for you.
What had always been shown throughout house was he got rid of the pain, and the Vicodin, and his judgement became compromised, and this is why he always felt like he relied on the pain and Vicodin, the one time he didn’t have the pain, didn’t have the Vicodin and still got the case right, cuddy and Wilson made him think he was wrong and the pain returned.
There were other times, too, but the point of the issue is that House kept trying to find an escape from his suffering -- not just his pain. He found a treatment that solved his pain problem in exchange for his doctoring skills, but he chose being a doctor -- he chose solving puzzles over living well.
His leg started hurting before this scene during the skateboard scene. He had the chance to live pain free with the Sepa patients nerve, season 3 the methadone season 5, and he could have amputated at any time also. He choose to live in pain, for reason you an decide for youreelf
@@jimmy2k4o He's like the lady in an episode of Highlander the tv series who was a musical prodigy. Then she died and came back to life and realized he was an immortal, and lost all of her music talent. She realized that without the fear and desperation of life, she had no passion. So she specifically chose NOT to learn how to use a sword to defend herself, and the knowledge that one day someone would chop her head off brought her passion back. She needed the fear to have the passion. Hose need his pain for the same reason, the pain drives him to find solutions, no pain, no drive, no drive House feels worse in life.
@@williamozier918 " She realized that without the fear and desperation of life, she had no passion. " which ofcourse is the romantic bullshit passed down from susceptible gifted person with trauma to susceptible gifted person with trauma. The trauma doesn"t cause the talent, and the drugs are self-medication. Gifted people encounter trauma (when young), if it's true that they encounter it more than others it is only because they are sensitive. Correlation is not causation. Faulty logic. Without that fallacy that the public still gets a kick out of (and ofcourse with a decent mental healthcare system in place) Janis Joplin, Layne Steeley and Amy Winehouse would still be alive.
@@brmbkl There was an excellent episode of Cobra Kai where the concept of the scene was that abusive people are often trying to recreate the circumstances of their initial trauma.
Things always happen. I rather have a doctor who is 99% right and 1% wrong than those doctors who are trying to play it safe when it comes to a situation when a patient is going to live and live a normal life or be left to degenerate because doctors are playing it safe 50/50 because they do not want the 1% of being wrong. LIFE IS FULL OF RISKS AND LIFE IS A RISK, SO TAKE A CHANCE!
Reply to Shawn G: Laugh as much as you want but when you are in a real life situation like that patient, then let us be informed by one of your family members on how your immediate family feels when their doctors are just playing it safe 50/50 while you degenerate for decades. Think hard about it.
Guys if I was actually in hospital and house was my doctor, I'd be like "dw mum, I watched his show, he's good" and lie in bed like I'm a healthy mf 😌😂😂
After rewatching the show and all the clips I've realizes if she told House he was right he wouldn't have gone back to the drugs because he would have realized he didn't need them to solve cases.
No he needed them to keep him as cool as possible. Without them he's frantic, walking around in a fountain in the middle of the night. Clearly "off the meds"
@@aerystargaryenii2565 Yeah cause he never does anything crazy like giving himself a migraine and then dropping acid, or quitting cold turkey to win a bet and then breaking his hand on purpose to feel different pain, etc. Nope. Totally normal all the time...until he walked into that fountain after running for miles! lol
@@willlienellson7451This the same guy who stabbed an electrical socket with a penknife because some nutbar did the same thing? That's the guy who aery thinks was "off the meds" for cooling off in a water fountain?
You... you know you're describing the guy who stabbed a wall socket because some imbecile did it and claimed to have visions, yeah?@@aerystargaryenii2565
""Medically, what made you think he was right?" Because he had a logical, coherent theory, leading to a possible treatment/cure with ZERO risk? Why in hell would you NOT try his idea.
In fairness, he gets it wrong more often than he gets it right. He gets it right at the end of the episode but gets it wrong multiple times before that happens. He actually has a pretty terrible average.
@@Blasted2Oblivion that’s the diagnostic process tho. Process of elimination till you figure out what the issue is lol. He’s not gonna just get it right on the first guess, he’s not psychic.
@@Blasted2Oblivion Reason why he often gets it wrong at first is because he's given some of the hardest to solve medical cases the hospital gets. Said cases often involving extremely rare illnesses.
So basically in order to try and teach House a lesson Cuddy was willing to deny a man the possibility of life again?!?! And then again in order to try and teach House a lesson she covers up the fact that he was right, making him doubt himself and listen to her more even though hes practically always been right....
Ironically, one person House got it horribly wrong on was himself, lol. He should've amputated his leg when he had an issue, but he kept saying no, so Stacy decided to have the doctors just cut some of the muscle out. That's why he's in pain 24/7, walks around with a limp, and is addicted to drugs.
I just want to say, the wife of Richard nailed that part. She's a really good actress and really captured the climax of that scene so perfectly. It's a small part but she really knocked it out of the park. Edit: Her name is Kathleen Quinlan. Good job Kathleen 👍
Agreed, and the shock and progression on her face, her frozen syllables amazing. Too bad the kid was there underacting and underwritten. More Kathleen!
I mean, his reasoning is medical- instead of assuming the patient was trying to die, he thought of a different outlook “the patient was hot, and wanted to cool off”. He didn’t see scar tissue in the MRI, because sometimes scar tissue is small, and the pituitary gland is also small. It doesn’t take much to disturb glands in the human body. Cortisol has no downsides, it’s safe to inject as long as the patient has no allergy or any medicines that has a bad interaction. All he would’ve needed to do was get permission from Cuddy, and then go to the wife and child and explain his reasoning and ask them for consent to administer cortisol. I’m sure the wife and child would’ve been fine with doing it, considering it was a safe injection. What Cuddy did is honestly worse- she lied, administering cortisol to “fight infection”, when that’s not the reason for doing it. She did it AFTER discharge, which goes against so many rules and regulations. She didn’t do it through prescription, it didn’t go into his chart, which I know is to evade House but it risks her job and license. She lied to one of her doctors for the simple reason of “he needs to learn the word No”. House understands the meaning of “no”, but he’s House the Best Doctor Around for a reason. It really bothered House, and doing this to him while he’s recovering from surgery and addiction was just plain idiotic of Cuddy and Wilson. They could’ve seriously cause him to do something genuinely bad.
And it did. It made him relapsed and when they decided to tell him the truth afterwords they just affirmed all his fears and paranoias and justified his mistrust in people, and worse, made him feel like a fool for trusting them. This was the second single worst thing they did to House besides the leg.
This part of the season was one of the cruelest to House. My man was recovering so well, and everyone suddenly decides to not trust him, a version of House who is more sober & probably has even better judgement. Lead to a downhill of trouble. This & everyone putting extra pressure and distrust on his attitude after break-up with Cuddy was too much. Nobody really understood House completely. Wilson understood him the most & even he had no idea of how real the pain was until he himself got chemo for cancer.
Whenever anyone I know goes to the doctor, they can't figure shit out and just dismiss you. America has a fantastic "health" "care" system. My father had a dissected aorta(on the decent, so bad, but survivable), they said it didn't show up on scans but he said it was the worst pain he ever had in his life, in his chest/back. They sent him home saying it must've been muscular/skeletal. A week later he has to get life flighted. Like, when he told you it was the worst pain of his life, maybe that's worth a couple more guesses and tests? That's not like, someone explaining throwing their back out. No joke we had a chiropractor friend that correctly identified it the second he was told what happened. Because the description of how he did it and what it felt like was textbook.
@@Ciph3rzer0 I've had a few major medical conditions that required urgent care, and most of the time they say it's a "soft tissue" problem that has no treatment. If you don't have a broken bone there is nothing they can do in my experiences.
I didn't know the boy loved this show as much as me, i own every single season and have watched it through probably 8x. Just about as many times as i have watched your videos when im going to do a slayer task.
How would House not hear about this? The whole hospital would be talking about it. A paralysed man just stood up out of his wheelchair in the corridor like a miracle!
It’s crazy the amount of psychological damage done to house to those he calls “friends “ and who try to “help” him. With friends like these who needs enemies?
that's the thing..... it's always the ones closest to us that do the worst to us.... because human nature, sadly, it the always do what's best for themselves in any outcome. There are many that are willing to do what's best for everyone.... but we make choices that gives ourselves the best outcome more times than we do for others because it's harmless in the long run. House is Chaotic Good... He doesn't mind being the bad guy if it means that he's doing what is right... what he sees as the best choice to solve a problem that was given to him to solve
While you're not wrong and they have done damage, unintentionally or otherwise, this was not the time to massage his ego. He was in withdrawal and not thinking clearly. Sure, it worked, but telling him that would've incentivized him to make more guesses. While House is a brilliant physician and is luckier than most, eventually luck runs out. Better to have proof, or at least evidence that leads to a potential conclusion instead of an educated guess. Either way, Cuddy shouldn't have given the patient the injection without, at least, talking to the wife and explaining that it might work, but might not.
@@LifesGuardian "Better to have proof, or at least evidence that leads to a potential conclusion instead of an educated guess. " Better to leave a patient in a vegetative state, rather than give a practically harmless injection?
@@LifesGuardian but it was a safe guess with incredible upside. and was it a guess? not having certain proof isn't the same as a guess, especially given that a simple and safe jab was all the proof required
The moment when he stands up and hugs his wife always makes me tear up. I've seen a millions of those cute kittens being rescued videos, but never bat an eyelash. This one makes me go smoothie every time I see it.
House had no evidence to prove he was right. It was a gut feeling. What Wilson is saying that just because it went well this time doesn't mean next time it will go the same way.
@@martijnstuart95 House's apparently evidence-free gut feelings are reliably pretty accurate. That he has one *is* evidence, even if he doesn't *have* any evidence to support it.
Yep, House gets really depressed and I think he might even try to quit medicine, Cameron notices he needs to hear he was right. Wilson was wrong on this, I still believe that.
They both congregated to try and teach House "humility." Why, why would you do that? To someone who's self-worth is so diminished that the only things that keep it afloat are his intellect and instincts? It's his gift, and the only thing that makes him feel like he's good at doing his job. He's not good with patients, he's definitely not compassionate or caring and as he says when his ketamine treatment happens: "I can make people better." He defines himself around his intellect. And they thought it was a good idea to try and make him feel BAD about that? For the two people who know him best, they sure as fuck didn't understand what they were doing. Trying to make him think he's not God. "God doesn't limp."
If something I learned from this show is that nobody is 100% right, in this case they were right and wrong, yes House guessed and yes it is a big deal just how Wilson said :"next time he won't be that lucky". And they were wrong for not telling him just for teaching humility
@@megalodon2831 but the repercussions of his guess were 0, wo what does it matter. its a no loss situation, and she said no just for the sake of saying no.
@@shawnritchie6666 yes like Wilson said "this time" but next time he won't be so lucky Ik that in this case telling him was indeed the right thing to do but considering how House is you have to consider that they have reasons not to.
At the time yes, but she thought it over and realized that the reward far outweighed any risk (there were non). His wacky ideas are often wrong, and eventually he gets it right. He never accepts no, and in many cases that comes with a serious risk he ignores because he just wants to solve the puzzle. She told him no, because he had 0 evidence. It was all a hunch, doctors can’t treat patients based on nothing but a hunch, especially in the US. If they can’t back it up they could get fired, sued, or even closed down.
42 jade this is House. The only time financials are discussed is with salary and destruction of equipment/property. Even if your sheeple theory were true, House would never portray that. And if they did, they would bring on a “villain” character to say that
A good manager will use highly intelligent people appropriately. Used correctly, they're very good at solving complex problems. Generally, they either work alone or have their own team.
This is often a problem in technical fields. A manager is brought in to administer an engineering team. None on the engineering team seemed suitable, but the department head knows a sales manager wants a promotion to this grade, so they are given it. They actually know little about engineering, so say "no" to everything for fear of being wrong. This is why house and cuddy work - she knows enough to understand him but not enough to not need him. She also knows he cares more than he lets on, and a lot of his gruffness is an affectation to cope with his continual physical pain and frustration at many people's carelessness of health. Perhaps a little haunted about those he couldn't help. Doctors can't wear their heart on their sleeve and continue to function. Which may be why she's doesn't practice much any more...
@@Rapscallion2009 What a sad world where you put managers who know nothing about what they're managing. It's like putting an obese person who never exercises and constantly eats junk food as the Health Minister of your country.
Every time I see the ending of this episode , it infuriates me. It perfectly demonstrates one of my biggest issues with "people". Those closest to you who claim to love you will willfully lie to you "for your own good" or "what (name) doesn't know won't hurt him". It's a blatant violation of trust and a betrayal.
Ever had to protect a schizophrenic by pulling funds "fraudulently from their bank account? Or "illegally" medicating their soup when they go off the meds? Pretty risky behavior but you would be thanked later. Everybody lies.
@@jeffmilroy9345 So, you advocate for doing things like that to perfectly normal people with zero mental issues??? Do you justify it for someone who just "knows better"? Do you justify someone keeping things from see omeone else only to avoid the inevitable reaction to their poor choices and decisions that we ill eventually effect the one it's being kept from too??? I understand your point with severe mental disorders. But in normal people, this is just narcissistic behaviour.
No, narcissistic behavior types would not do the things I mentioned. They would have let the subject sink or swim. It comes down to caring about someone and taking a stand. Not really anything more than an evolved conscientious trait that follows a normal distribution. It did not matter anyway - the person was grateful for the intervention but committed suicide. Be thankful it is not a problem that presents to you.@@michaelkindy3850
@@michaelkindy3850 I don't believe that's what they were advocating. I believe they were playing devil's advocate about how there are always occasions where sometimes one can't always be upfront and honest to those they love, no matter how much they wish they could be.
I love the House 'epiphanies'. When he is doing or saying something and stops midway through as a connection is made to the case at hand. Always a generic staple but it never gets old and always exhilarating to behold.
Here is one thing I really love about these shows, is that House is obviously not fully there, he's above average and obviously very detached from basic human emotions, so for things like showing up at your bosses house in the middle of the night is normal, it's really wild and admittedly a really strong form of human acceptance.
It's not luck if he's ALWAYS right, what a stupid thing for Wilson to say. He wanted to chop down house a bit because of his own inferiority complex, no other reason.
Because he breaks so many laws/regulations with his process Plus the theories he makes are like 1 in million or something. They're such a specific situation that most of the time the doctor would be counted as over thinking the case. It takes 1 in a million reaction to something for them to start considering houses insane plan sometimes
6:55 This moment is so good. It's not only Cuddy believing and lamenting that she couldn't heal a patient, but she's also worried about House's state of being. If he's wrong, that means she's right, and House is seriously an addict who needs help.
I watched this series when it aired and I was young. My dad had Multiple Sclerosis and this episode kinda hit me. I didn't really understand the desease back then and when I saw this man pop up the wheelchair like that I went and told my dad about it, and wanted to know if he had tried that med before. My relationship with him was always hard because of his desease, and I kind of locked up from him in my mind as a coping mechanism. That conversation with him that day, about experimental medicine and whatnot that he had tried was one of the only true and honest conversation we had. He passed away through euthanasia by his own choice back in 2015. And everytime I see this scene or episode... I tear up. I remember my dad. I remember that chat with him and I feel regret, nostalgia, happiness and lots of other emotions that I don't really understand. I love House. This is just one episode, but there's a lot of emotional ones that come to mind that have helped me cope with things, and also understand some from another perspective. Now I'm gonna have to re watch it again... Oh, well...
Lame! House should've done it without asking permission. The whole point was that the treatment had no downside. There's never anything wrong with trying something that only has upside. His judgment was fine.
House was off-balance, he was anxious over the prospect of his leg pain coming back, and after cuddy and wilson fixed his leg and vicodin problem (both without his consent) he started to think that they were right and he was wrong, since they solved the problems he couldn't, and he was the only thing in the way. He began to believe that his obsessive diagnosis was incorrect too, when in reality it was saving lives. House let his emotions cloud his judgement and as a result a patient would have been disabled for the rest of his life, if not for cuddy trying his treatment. I count this one as a house loss along with the photosensitive anaphylaxis case that he thought was flesh-eating bacteria, because victory comes not just from being clever enough to know how to win, but also having the conviction to do what is necessary to. Overall though house's actions are understandable, although I'm not sure why wilson did what he did.
This is by the far the best House Moment. It captures the core essence of House the series. It is the reason why we always come back for more of House. It is for that transformative glimpse of humanity, risk and greatness.
House: here's a zero risk, low cost solution that might cure this man. . Cuddy: I hear you... but I'm just gonna let him slowly die to teach you a lesson. . WTF?!?!?
I mean, nothing is ever zero risk and he could've done some blood tests to prove his theory. But sure. This is a show that most of the time isn't medically accurate at least in the sense that this isn't how one would go about diagnosing things.
This illustrates the biggest problem I had with this show, House is right but he always has to deal with everyone constantly telling him he is wrong because of their own egos.
House’s entire job is about making theories and testing them when nobody fully knows what is wrong. Sometimes he puts patients at risk, but this time his theory had zero risk. Cuddy might as well fire him if she will say no to a quick, unintrusive test with no risks
This is one of the first miracles out of house I just couldn't stop smiling at. The way he got out of that chair and hugged his family with every muscle in his body he *just* got back again
"Hopefully that's the combination he was using... be a shame if I had cured a pedophile. " Just the delivery of that from Laurie, it really was perfect casting.
I am so sad and sorry for House, everyone is just shitty to him all the time, when he always genuinely saves the day for everyone, and then Wilson persuadeing cuddy to not tell him, and cuddy does what he says, and takes all the credit for healing the man, it seems like they are all envious of House's wisdom. This happens too often in the real world, imagine a young medic finds a chance of healing someone, but the treatment get denied by the boss, because he doesn't want someone to know better than him. In our society everyone just wants to get through his own opinion, without even listening and discussing the others.
I always think back to the episode about the three cases when I watch this. It made me realize that this was the kind of genius that House was before the drugs. He is amazing on them, but before, when he was younger, sober, happier, House must have been supernatural.
Cuddy’s actress did a phenomenal job portraying what it must feel like to witness a medical miracle. I imagine as a physician to see someone paralyzed walk again is an unbelievable feeling.
House is a perfect doctor. Couldn’t care less about the moral side of things, just cares about fixing problems, even if they include doing horrible things
@@dorymarshall5477 Nothing in the code of ethics about that. But what IS in the code of ethics is "Do no harm." Seems doctors and the entire medical profession has forgotten that over the past 2.5 years.
@@fleatactical7390 I don’t want to comment on the last part, because that is more on the insurance people than the doctors. However, “do no harm” is exactly the command that doctors are bound to that I warned about. They are not told to do harm if it results in the saving a patient’s life, they are told to be methodical and try to save the patient’s life in the safest way possible. One of House’s MOs is that he used the treatment, which in many cases worsens patients if the disease it is designed to treat is not present, to diagnose them.
I finally got several doctors like House, and they helped put me in remission for my undiagnosed Cancer, which "specialists" had misdiagnosed me for 7 years, calling me a hypochondriac. Go teaching hospitals - specifically Stanford and the old San Francisco General hospitals.
House has a completely genius breakthrough every few days and they constantly let him do random treatments that “might” help AND have downsides. This is a no downside idea that could literally cure him and they shut him down.
Has regularly jumps to conclusions and flings things against the wall hoping they'll stick and after being wrong two or three times eventually has an epiphany which might be right but they have no way to know other than flinging it against the wall because all of the prior treatments they tried have prevented a proper diagnosis of the correct thing this time
To be fair to them, usually the patient is dying fast and if they don't take risks the patient is a goner. In this case the patient wasn't deteriorating, so there arguably was no reason to take any risks like they usually would. But like you said, this treatment wasn't risky, so still a bad call.
I agree with all the compliments to the wife she did awesome, but I gotta say the son’s smile as his dad hugged him was so genuine and comforted-he hasn’t felt that hug from his dad in a long time
I was going through a break up and oddly enough house md recommendations keep appearing on my youtube suggestions. I still don't feel okay from the break up but watching these clips makes me feel so much better. To whoever is running this, thank you.
Um, if she wanted to lie, she should’ve come up with a better lie that would not be disproved a by a simple google search, thus potentially inducing an even more questions that could lead up to a lawsuit. The way she explained it to the family is like saying she added sugar to a drink to make it more bitter.
8:59 what Wilson doesn’t understand here is that just because Cuddy didn’t have a medically valid reason to think house was right, in the end, she thought he was right because HE had a valid reason himself
This says a lot of House’s mind, even when he is doubting himself and can’t find a medically reasonable treatment, his subconscious gives him the answer even when he can’t really explain why it’s the answer. It’s just House’s natural medical talent after spending years of learning medicine and solving complex case after case
Mostly Wilson. Cuddy did want to tell House was right and finally in next episode she confessed in order to make him again risk-taking brilliant doctor with crazy ideas like he was before and after that episode . But if it was up to Wilson, House would never discovered the truth and became just another mediocre very cautious doctor who would be less effective and practice only 100 % safe game.
Years passed for this scene and its still my favorite, gives me chills each time . It gives me hope that everything got a solution at the end even if everything says the opposite Even if everything indicates that it’s all going to be worse still there is always hope
"Next time he won't get lucky and he'll kill someone" Wouldn't that apply to the opposite? He'll hold back more and the patient will die? :V double edged sword right there
Anyone else tear up at this scene when he stands up? The acting from everyone in the scene was so on point. Could have been cheesy but executed perfectly.❤️
I hate that they’re so hell bent on him NOT being high. Some people think that everyone must be normal and miserable, and anyone who is happy, they need to bring that person down.
No, he didn't get lucky Wilson. Intuition isn't luck, he had a theory based on knowledge and observations, the risk was almost non-existent. So he was write about his theory and he deserved to know that.
It's not luck if he's ALWAYS right, what a stupid thing for Wilson to say. He wanted to chop down house a bit because of his own inferiority complex, no other reason.
@@Lewdacris916 The problem is that he ISN'T always right. Sure, he usually has it figured out by the end of each episode but look how many times he gets it wrong first.
@@Blasted2Oblivion Congratulations. You just described the scientific method. House always gets it right in the end because he STUDIES and INVESTIGATES the issue. He's based on Sherlock Holmes. Need I say more?
@@DeathMessenger1988 That would be fine if he were experimenting in a lab but he is dealing with patients. His trial and error method isn't a good thing when it's a person's life being destroyed while it is being saved.
@@Blasted2Oblivion The whole process of House treating patients is figuring out what's wrong with them. Surprise, doctors aren't omniscient. That's the whole point of the story and House's character. The other option is just staring blankly into the void while the patient slowly withers and dies because you can't figure out what's wrong and can't risk giving treatments because you don't know if they'll work 100%. By that logic, why give chemo to cancer patients since chances are they'll die anyway? And in this guy's case, his life is ALREADY destroyed. House spent the whole episode figuring out how to FIX that. And you can bet he would have been thanking House for it if Cuddy hadn't stolen credit because of the humbling conspiracy bullshit.
Top 5 Awesome Moments in House MD. The acting when he was standing up gives me shivers every time. That and the autistic kid making eye contact with House is crazy!
House literally went back on drugs because he thought he couldn’t solve cases without the Vicodin. Cuddy and Wilson caused his relapse by not telling him. This one episode modified both of their characters so much and makes them nearly evil.
How long will it take for them to realize house is actually a clairvoyant who knows everything before it even happens, he doesn't need evidence, he's like batman he can do anything
Cuddy blew it, this wasn’t a normal case, it was House’s first case off Vicodin. Getting it right would prove to himself that he could still be an effective doctor without pain, but he kept 2nd guessing himself because he thought he was wrong
That is a truly excellent point
EXACTLY
Absolutely correct. The best kind of correct.
House is a completely logical creature. If he had realized he was as smart without vicodin he would've most likely stayed off of it for good. Cuddy and Wilson screwed up big time.
@@as7river He could've also tried to handle more than one case at a time. This was maybe the only episode where I recall him selecting to work on more than one patient at the same time. However Cuddy and Wilson are just so sanctimonious, especially to House, they're used to worrying about keeping his ego in check before helping him to manage his drug problem. Yes maybe there were future lives at stake, but certainly House' was, this perspective may have never been considered by the writers at any point in this episode. Either his ego would be too inflated from how he solved this case, or he would still simply be the same House, recognizing how lucky he was, ESPECIALLY with Cuddy or Wilson pointing it out, without the vicodin, leg pain managed. Both perspectives seem fairly consistent of how House was written up to that point imo.
@@ListlessLonerWillfulWonder wasn't this the episode that was part of his heroin-induced hallucination? and the reason his conclusion didn't make sense was because it wasn't real?
This is a great message to send. Trust the guy when he's loaded with painkillers but dont trust him when he's sober. Not sure who is on drugs, house or cuddy and wilson.
Yes?
No
As someone who's had to deal with an addict for over ten years, I'm completely behind the message in this show. House wasn't just sober, he was in withdrawal. At that point, a person does not act rationally. At the worst of times, they'll do whatever it takes to get their high, sometimes including verbal or physical abuse towards their loved ones, even things like blackmail. At the best of times, they're repressing the urge to do all of those things, and not thinking rationally or making good decisions as a result of that. House did this because he couldn't get Vicodin, and he needed a fix, so he turned to puzzles to get that fix. Normally, substituting an addictive substance with something like puzzles would be a good alternative, letting them distract themselves from their withdrawal with a productive pursuit, but not when House's puzzles are human lives. Rewarding that behaviour would have been detrimental to both him and those he's treating in the long run. The show has a very faithful portrayal of addiction in particular with the character of House, which implies a lot of meticulous research and/or experience, so I'm certain they knew all of this. I stand by Wilson and Cuddy's decision.
neither of them... they're actors. I'm the one with the opioid problem. For fucks sake, I spend my free time waving a wooden stick and saying arcane latin phrases! wait... so does house. perhaps he is a wizard
@@krukblood-axe3649 you're completely wrong on House. House has an intellectual ability that far exceeds Cuddy and Wilson. He didn't need a high, he was just doing his job. He was on Vicodin, not Heroin. After 3 months he would have been totally off the drugs and not in withdrawal. Withdrawal from Vicodin might last 2 weeks at max. Does it take the brain time to regulate Oxytocin after not getting it artificially? Yes, but it wouldn't affect his thinking after 3 months. After taken Vicodin for years, it just keeps the pain away. Your body gets used to it and it does nothing to get you high any longer.
It was so evil to not tell House, the man's in enough torment already, and he seems to get real joy out of seeing other people make recoveries. (Even if he disguises it as only enjoying the puzzle) House isn't a bad guy, and should not be denied happiness.
Yeah, especially as it could have shown him he doesn’t need Vicodin to be a good doctor and cure his patients. Also, as a doctor, if there is a potential way to cure someone with little to no downsides, it’s downright evil not to try it. It’s like ex iuvantibus treatment
I completely agree, they really messed up by not telling him right away
Yup
He found out later on
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"just because he was right doesn't mean he wasn't wrong." My teacher talking to my parents after I made a right argument
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No, you went to school and got a free education. Don't be dumb
@jamesassbag "Roblox Protest Simulator"
Well, perhaps you went to a government indoctrination for factory workers and coal miners.
@@mikeh171 No education is free. The U.S. education system is a wreck that teaches everything you _don't_ need to know to be prepared for life.
@@formeraxe117 Same applies to most countries.
The fact that there were no downsides to cortisol if House was wrong made Cuddy's argument void.
Not really. You dont give treatment because there no downside, you give it because its needed.
The point is that regardless of how house got his idea, his idea made some sense and had merit and was at least based somewhat on the facts of the case. Cuddys initial decision was not based on medicine at all. Wasnt even based on the patient.
She made the wrong call. Then wavered. Then doubled down. Just like a woman.
@@metamorphicorder You had a decent argument and then you made a poor comment. Just like a jerk.
@@metamorphicorder Douche.
@@metamorphicorder You could always explain the treatment to the family and give them the option "harmless treatment that might let him live a completely normal life or no treatment and he stays as he is"
I reckon the family would sue immediately if they found out that this treatment existed and was not offered.
I mean, it's a wild guess, but still educated. I don't think anyone would say no to the treatment
House outlines exactly what the patient needs and provides medical reasoning as to why it would work. Wilson: "He was lucky"
I know, I hated that part. It pissed me off, like any other time he was right, everyone was fine with it. Why now say "he was lucky"? That doesn't make any sense. And "just because he's right doesn't mean he's wrong"? Yes it does. They are literal opposite words. I wanted to punch him in the face. And Cuddy did have a good, valid medical reason to give him cortisol: the same reasons House gave her. She was just trying to downplay him. I get that House acts like a jerk 90% of the time, but that doesn't mean that he deserves this from the people he trusts. Just despicable
@@lonnisplace1459 It feels like the more I watch House episodes involving Wilson, the less I like the Wilson character.
@@Simitachi don't let House hear you say that
@@lonnisplace1459 Everything you said was invalidated thanks to your "literal opposite words" statement
@@CrashSable Everything you said was invalidated thanks to you just being you.
If I was this patient and found out that a doctor correctly guessed a treatment that could work, and had no down side, and the boss refused to administer the treatment, even for a minute, I would sue the shit out of that hospital
Same. Any sane lawyer would take your case in a heartbeat
And if the doctor made another bad decision purely on a hunch or feeling, would you let him off? I doubt injecting him would have had no downside, else they would've just done it and end of episode. At this point, the family was pissed at House as they generally are after the typical 2 or 3 bad diagnostics, they weren't about to approve another experiment.
Doctors require medical proof to have a decision, they can't have a hunch about something
@@Bilcosby123 idiotic reply. If there is 100% no down side, providing a potential medical cure is logical. The human race evolved and modernized medicine for these situations. It would be stupid not to use it.
@@ryanmohan3041 That's not how it works completely. Regarding treatment, he (or in this case his family) would have to consent to a treatment, have the treatment explained to them with the nature, risks, benefits, and side effects, and what reasoning that treatment would be administered. @bilcosby123 is closer in generalizing "requiring medical proof" than you are arbitrarily shutting him down over some idealism of "having human race evolving and having modernized medicine". The whole point, in the show, was that you can't just act on hunches but have to have some form of proof. Which is why Foreman was fired when he worked on a hunch and cured a patient when he worked for the other hospital.
As an ER nurse and former surgical nurse, a no-risk treatment suggested by the most brilliant doctor in our hospital would never in a million years be denied by anyone in any organization I’ve ever worked at. They’d just be like “Ok, try it.”
exactly!
Especially given House's track record for curing patients they should know by now to let him work.
I have been the recipient of "why not? Couldn't hurt" protocol before. More than once.
as an er nurse you would understand there is no such thing as a no risk treatment
@@jacobhealy8376there is
To me, the scene of Richard standing up is one of best moments of the whole show. Performing a literal biblical miracle, and then Cuddy and Wilson deny him that satisfaction just hurts so much. It would've proved to House that he can solve cases not high on vicodin. It was a win he needed, but they kept from him.
Wilson and Cuddy were SOOOOO wrong not to tell House that he cured that man!
They both jews what did you expect?
@@ThePVTfaszkivanbased
@@ThePVTfaszkivan so true
@ThePVTfaszkivan what does that have to do with anything?
whoever is keeping this channel alive deserves a medal
Fox network because this is the official channel.
They get paid.
I miss this show.
Ily kebl This is literally the House youtube channel...
It's not some guy posting videos from his bedroom.
@@pinoyguy75 yeah makes sense... It's been around for so long I'm glad they keep uploading
I never really forgave Wilson or Cuddy for this, it felt like a huge betrayal of someone they claim to care about.
Seems like there is a consensus in the comments that they made the wrong decision in withholding that information, just to "teach him a lesson."
Yea I never forgave him for this either.
It's not real.
@D Sullivan And that's disturbing.
@D Sullivan It's just a tv show. Don't spend so much time thinking about it.
I always thought that this was an extremely poor decision on Wilson's part. Everyone's high on something, and House finally got high on something much better than Vicodin -- solving problems. He was finally starting to rediscover his creativity, and Wilson's decision shut him down.
This! Wilson was fucking wrong on this one. House needed this victory to know he can still do his job without pain medication. Fucking ego at its finest here.
What are you high on?
@@CrisRonnie Your mom in bed
Sugar. @@CrisRonnie
@@CrisRonniewater... Does that count?
I always found it kind of silly and stupid that when House was always high, they let him do whatever he wanted. But once he got clean and was fully functional, THATS when they chose to not trust his judgement? lol yeah, thats how you push people into relapse, folks. Whats the point in being sober if thats when people suddenly choose not to trust you? Its supposed to be the other way around.
And on top of that, saying 'no' just on principal to teach House a lesson, even though like House said,"Theres no risk." Denying a man the chance at a normal life just to stick it to House? Talk about,"Killing two kids with one stone because you missed the bird you were aiming for." Not to mention that she did it anyway and DIDNT tell House about it because Wilson stopped her lol wtf Wilson?
I've been on a House binge these last 2 weeks and honestly, over and over again everyone around him utterly betrays him after they force him into situations he is not suited for but apparently that's justified because he's addicted to pain killers. I'm almost done with season 3 and how any of them still have the gall to lecture him when every time he gets into trouble they either abandon or betray him.
They take advantage of his gift as a doctor while continuing to push and prod him instead of just leaving him the hell alone to pursue his work. His outlook on life is entirely justified, everyone around him constantly abuse, manipulate or take advantage of him, but oh no, he's mean and rude so it's apparently it's okay to fuck him over.
It's a show, with fake situations and almost everything is made up for entertainment, you took it a step further and took it personal 😢😢 you need to separate real situations from pretending ones.
@@axelpalacios9232 Any feeling anyone has about anything is personal. If you don't like a character that's personal, if you don't like what a character did that's personal.
What makes you think I'm insulted on behalf of the character or that I'm unable to separate fiction from reality? Your comment is such a basic bitch statement that says nothing at all that I'm wondering if you have anything to say at all.
@@axelpalacios9232
A good show should make you feel, you should connect to the characters, emphasise with them, it's still easy to separate fact from fiction, but while you're watching it you should be fully immersed in the world that's been created for you.
I wonder what the series wouldve been like, if the finale of this season was house finding out he was right
Bad news for the kid, he hugged his wife.
They switched roles.
big LOL
LOLOLOK OMG
Kek
Hahahaahahhaahha
House is the epitome of "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
except in this case shots are... shots...
"If I just throw everything against the wall, something has to stick!"
Good ol Wayne
True
What had always been shown throughout house was he got rid of the pain, and the Vicodin, and his judgement became compromised, and this is why he always felt like he relied on the pain and Vicodin, the one time he didn’t have the pain, didn’t have the Vicodin and still got the case right, cuddy and Wilson made him think he was wrong and the pain returned.
There were other times, too, but the point of the issue is that House kept trying to find an escape from his suffering -- not just his pain. He found a treatment that solved his pain problem in exchange for his doctoring skills, but he chose being a doctor -- he chose solving puzzles over living well.
His leg started hurting before this scene during the skateboard scene.
He had the chance to live pain free with the Sepa patients nerve, season 3 the methadone season 5, and he could have amputated at any time also.
He choose to live in pain, for reason you an decide for youreelf
@@jimmy2k4o He's like the lady in an episode of Highlander the tv series who was a musical prodigy. Then she died and came back to life and realized he was an immortal, and lost all of her music talent. She realized that without the fear and desperation of life, she had no passion. So she specifically chose NOT to learn how to use a sword to defend herself, and the knowledge that one day someone would chop her head off brought her passion back. She needed the fear to have the passion. Hose need his pain for the same reason, the pain drives him to find solutions, no pain, no drive, no drive House feels worse in life.
@@williamozier918 " She realized that without the fear and desperation of life, she had no passion. " which ofcourse is the romantic bullshit passed down from susceptible gifted person with trauma to susceptible gifted person with trauma. The trauma doesn"t cause the talent, and the drugs are self-medication. Gifted people encounter trauma (when young), if it's true that they encounter it more than others it is only because they are sensitive. Correlation is not causation. Faulty logic. Without that fallacy that the public still gets a kick out of (and ofcourse with a decent mental healthcare system in place) Janis Joplin, Layne Steeley and Amy Winehouse would still be alive.
@@brmbkl There was an excellent episode of Cobra Kai where the concept of the scene was that abusive people are often trying to recreate the circumstances of their initial trauma.
"What made you think he was right?"
"Because he's House."
This is the entire show.
Things always happen. I rather have a doctor who is 99% right and 1% wrong than those doctors who are trying to play it safe when it comes to a situation when a patient is going to live and live a normal life or be left to degenerate because doctors are playing it safe 50/50 because they do not want the 1% of being wrong. LIFE IS FULL OF RISKS AND LIFE IS A RISK, SO TAKE A CHANCE!
Reply to Shawn G: Laugh as much as you want but when you are in a real life situation like that patient, then let us be informed by one of your family members on how your immediate family feels when their doctors are just playing it safe 50/50 while you degenerate for decades. Think hard about it.
@@darthvader5300 relax. I think they were lol'ing at my comment, not yours.
Guys if I was actually in hospital and house was my doctor, I'd be like "dw mum, I watched his show, he's good" and lie in bed like I'm a healthy mf 😌😂😂
@@Lil_tml_16 & then you end up being 1 of the rare ones that completely eludes him... or 1 that can't be cured... poor thing
After rewatching the show and all the clips I've realizes if she told House he was right he wouldn't have gone back to the drugs because he would have realized he didn't need them to solve cases.
No he needed them to keep him as cool as possible. Without them he's frantic, walking around in a fountain in the middle of the night. Clearly "off the meds"
@@aerystargaryenii2565 Yeah cause he never does anything crazy like giving himself a migraine and then dropping acid, or quitting cold turkey to win a bet and then breaking his hand on purpose to feel different pain, etc. Nope. Totally normal all the time...until he walked into that fountain after running for miles! lol
@@willlienellson7451This the same guy who stabbed an electrical socket with a penknife because some nutbar did the same thing? That's the guy who aery thinks was "off the meds" for cooling off in a water fountain?
You... you know you're describing the guy who stabbed a wall socket because some imbecile did it and claimed to have visions, yeah?@@aerystargaryenii2565
@@aerystargaryenii2565 House did things way crazier when on the meds bud.
house in a nutshell
house: this man has this
everyone: no
house: actually yes
everyone: oh you're right
Q the earlier seasons where less so. I preferred it when house wasn’t just omnipotent.
Despite doing this for virtually every episode, they still manage to make every episode unique in a sense. Few are forgettable, imo
Q 😂😂😂
Usually there's some iteration and a few mistakes on the way to getting to the right answer.
more like
everyone: this man has this
house: no
LOL
""Medically, what made you think he was right?"
Because he had a logical, coherent theory, leading to a possible treatment/cure with ZERO risk? Why in hell would you NOT try his idea.
vankhorne because the plot forced these doctors to not behave like Doctors
He had no proof, you can't just guess. Next time he could have guessed and killed someone
@@richardinis When there is zero risk to the patient and a possible cure, well... One may guess all he wants.
@@richardinis Nah he had a solid theory, the patient's hypothalamus and adrenals were messed up.
@@vankhorne Say that to your boss
The fact they always say “next time he’ll kill somebody” and he in fact never does is crazy
You have a diagnostic genius on staff for a reason. You listen when he talks.
In fairness, he gets it wrong more often than he gets it right. He gets it right at the end of the episode but gets it wrong multiple times before that happens. He actually has a pretty terrible average.
@@Blasted2Oblivion that’s the diagnostic process tho. Process of elimination till you figure out what the issue is lol. He’s not gonna just get it right on the first guess, he’s not psychic.
House wants people to challenge him. It’s how he finds the correct solution. Argue means “to make clear.”
@@Blasted2Oblivion Reason why he often gets it wrong at first is because he's given some of the hardest to solve medical cases the hospital gets. Said cases often involving extremely rare illnesses.
So basically in order to try and teach House a lesson Cuddy was willing to deny a man the possibility of life again?!?! And then again in order to try and teach House a lesson she covers up the fact that he was right, making him doubt himself and listen to her more even though hes practically always been right....
drama tv series for a reason br0
Ironically, one person House got it horribly wrong on was himself, lol. He should've amputated his leg when he had an issue, but he kept saying no, so Stacy decided to have the doctors just cut some of the muscle out. That's why he's in pain 24/7, walks around with a limp, and is addicted to drugs.
You mean he was almost always, eventually right.
@@827Drew At least he _walks_ and that's all that mattered to him.
They’re made for each other
I just want to say, the wife of Richard nailed that part. She's a really good actress and really captured the climax of that scene so perfectly. It's a small part but she really knocked it out of the park.
Edit: Her name is Kathleen Quinlan. Good job Kathleen 👍
Agreed, and the shock and progression on her face, her frozen syllables amazing. Too bad the kid was there underacting and underwritten. More Kathleen!
nah, she was bad. i didn't buy it.
She was fantastic. Setting the bar for the already high quality of guest actors.
She looks an awful lot like Jennifer Grey, post-surgery.
I mean, his reasoning is medical- instead of assuming the patient was trying to die, he thought of a different outlook “the patient was hot, and wanted to cool off”. He didn’t see scar tissue in the MRI, because sometimes scar tissue is small, and the pituitary gland is also small. It doesn’t take much to disturb glands in the human body. Cortisol has no downsides, it’s safe to inject as long as the patient has no allergy or any medicines that has a bad interaction. All he would’ve needed to do was get permission from Cuddy, and then go to the wife and child and explain his reasoning and ask them for consent to administer cortisol. I’m sure the wife and child would’ve been fine with doing it, considering it was a safe injection. What Cuddy did is honestly worse- she lied, administering cortisol to “fight infection”, when that’s not the reason for doing it. She did it AFTER discharge, which goes against so many rules and regulations. She didn’t do it through prescription, it didn’t go into his chart, which I know is to evade House but it risks her job and license. She lied to one of her doctors for the simple reason of “he needs to learn the word No”. House understands the meaning of “no”, but he’s House the Best Doctor Around for a reason. It really bothered House, and doing this to him while he’s recovering from surgery and addiction was just plain idiotic of Cuddy and Wilson. They could’ve seriously cause him to do something genuinely bad.
Thank you! finally someone said it. I fucking hated Cuddy and Wilson in this episode, they were being a pair of assholes.
There's an invisible line between tough love and abuse.
Oh to smack some sense into cuddy
@@hufflepufflez3293 Ayyy HuffPuff gang
And it did. It made him relapsed and when they decided to tell him the truth afterwords they just affirmed all his fears and paranoias and justified his mistrust in people, and worse, made him feel like a fool for trusting them. This was the second single worst thing they did to House besides the leg.
The actor who played the guy on the wheelchair was pretty insane btw.
stefanos mavromatis insane?
The actor's name is Edward Edwards, how cool is that?
that is a weird way to put it
Insane as in crazy? Wow
Yea he did an amazing job.
This part of the season was one of the cruelest to House. My man was recovering so well, and everyone suddenly decides to not trust him, a version of House who is more sober & probably has even better judgement. Lead to a downhill of trouble. This & everyone putting extra pressure and distrust on his attitude after break-up with Cuddy was too much. Nobody really understood House completely. Wilson understood him the most & even he had no idea of how real the pain was until he himself got chemo for cancer.
Every hospital needs a House. Someone who's willing to at least try something for a patient that everyone else has written off.
Whenever anyone I know goes to the doctor, they can't figure shit out and just dismiss you. America has a fantastic "health" "care" system. My father had a dissected aorta(on the decent, so bad, but survivable), they said it didn't show up on scans but he said it was the worst pain he ever had in his life, in his chest/back. They sent him home saying it must've been muscular/skeletal. A week later he has to get life flighted. Like, when he told you it was the worst pain of his life, maybe that's worth a couple more guesses and tests? That's not like, someone explaining throwing their back out.
No joke we had a chiropractor friend that correctly identified it the second he was told what happened. Because the description of how he did it and what it felt like was textbook.
Yes
@@Ciph3rzer0 that’s sad mate. I hope he is well now. And yes, it does sound textbook.
Unfortunately this is non existent in real life lol
@@Ciph3rzer0 I've had a few major medical conditions that required urgent care, and most of the time they say it's a "soft tissue" problem that has no treatment. If you don't have a broken bone there is nothing they can do in my experiences.
Hey to the person uploading, thank you. This show will live on forever
I didn't know the boy loved this show as much as me, i own every single season and have watched it through probably 8x. Just about as many times as i have watched your videos when im going to do a slayer task.
The actual disks. Green covers, every season. Only show and or movie I have in my living room in my entertainment center lol.
I most definitely didn’t expect to see you here. Have you seen the stuff regarding the twisted league?
Didnt expect to see you here lmao
MrNoSleep OSRS literally just got done watching your latest ep lmao
How would House not hear about this? The whole hospital would be talking about it. A paralysed man just stood up out of his wheelchair in the corridor like a miracle!
Yeah - but plot required it.
Cameron actually sees the patient when he goes to the the clinic. He seemed to be halfway back to fully functional. So the cat was out of the bag.
Welcome to the medical dramas universe hahah
Let's just say that Cuddy and Wilson are covering it up with some excuses
I also don't think House gets up to a lot of small talk around the hospital.
That look on Cuddy's face... So torn between utter shock, wonder, and joy... Sometimes I forget how good an actor Lisa Edelstein could be.
This isn't something you can teach.
@@DrJ-hx7wv except it absolutely is
It’s crazy the amount of psychological damage done to house to those he calls “friends “ and who try to “help” him. With friends like these who needs enemies?
that's the thing..... it's always the ones closest to us that do the worst to us.... because human nature, sadly, it the always do what's best for themselves in any outcome. There are many that are willing to do what's best for everyone.... but we make choices that gives ourselves the best outcome more times than we do for others because it's harmless in the long run.
House is Chaotic Good... He doesn't mind being the bad guy if it means that he's doing what is right... what he sees as the best choice to solve a problem that was given to him to solve
While you're not wrong and they have done damage, unintentionally or otherwise, this was not the time to massage his ego. He was in withdrawal and not thinking clearly. Sure, it worked, but telling him that would've incentivized him to make more guesses. While House is a brilliant physician and is luckier than most, eventually luck runs out. Better to have proof, or at least evidence that leads to a potential conclusion instead of an educated guess. Either way, Cuddy shouldn't have given the patient the injection without, at least, talking to the wife and explaining that it might work, but might not.
well put
@@LifesGuardian "Better to have proof, or at least evidence that leads to a potential conclusion instead of an educated guess. "
Better to leave a patient in a vegetative state, rather than give a practically harmless injection?
@@LifesGuardian but it was a safe guess with incredible upside. and was it a guess? not having certain proof isn't the same as a guess, especially given that a simple and safe jab was all the proof required
The moment when he stands up and hugs his wife always makes me tear up. I've seen a millions of those cute kittens being rescued videos, but never bat an eyelash. This one makes me go smoothie every time I see it.
This genuinely made me happy that Richard was able to stand again. I know it’s a show but it actually brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face.
Same bro
that's because the actors make u feel like that. Its an art.
"Just because he was right, doesn't mean he wasn't wrong!"..
YES IT DOES!!
That's an oxymoron.
@@leohong5845 I don't see why they would.
@@leohong5845 Still with how many times he ended up being right you think they would be more trusting.
House had no evidence to prove he was right. It was a gut feeling. What Wilson is saying that just because it went well this time doesn't mean next time it will go the same way.
@@martijnstuart95 House's apparently evidence-free gut feelings are reliably pretty accurate. That he has one *is* evidence, even if he doesn't *have* any evidence to support it.
I don't think we give Cuddy enough credit. She even sleeps with flawless hair and makeup. Amazing.
And she has the most beautiful blue eyes anywhere or ever. Sorry, I could not help it.
Stupid as hell to turn on the lights when someone knocks on your windows though
@@clarkbowen9882 Whoah! Sheesh! Really, dude? Cuddy's face is a 5 at best. Her body however, does rock. I will give her that.
mfs from r/truerateme were summoned here the moment a female human was given what could be perceived a compliment lmao
Spoiler: he finds out he was right.
really? how?!
@@hiteshlalwani8039 the guy comes back to the clinic for viagra
@@Dyils Cuddy tells him if I recall correctly and it's even on youtube
Yep, House gets really depressed and I think he might even try to quit medicine, Cameron notices he needs to hear he was right. Wilson was wrong on this, I still believe that.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
I loved and hated this episode a lot cause of Wilson and cuddy
aren’t they right though?
They both congregated to try and teach House "humility."
Why, why would you do that? To someone who's self-worth is so diminished that the only things that keep it afloat are his intellect and instincts? It's his gift, and the only thing that makes him feel like he's good at doing his job. He's not good with patients, he's definitely not compassionate or caring and as he says when his ketamine treatment happens: "I can make people better."
He defines himself around his intellect. And they thought it was a good idea to try and make him feel BAD about that? For the two people who know him best, they sure as fuck didn't understand what they were doing.
Trying to make him think he's not God. "God doesn't limp."
If something I learned from this show is that nobody is 100% right, in this case they were right and wrong, yes House guessed and yes it is a big deal just how Wilson said :"next time he won't be that lucky". And they were wrong for not telling him just for teaching humility
@@megalodon2831 but the repercussions of his guess were 0, wo what does it matter. its a no loss situation, and she said no just for the sake of saying no.
@@shawnritchie6666 yes like Wilson said "this time" but next time he won't be so lucky Ik that in this case telling him was indeed the right thing to do but considering how House is you have to consider that they have reasons not to.
For cuddy and Wilson not to tell House is one of the cruelest things in the show
Everybody lies even you🫵
Like that's actually horrible. She only told him no to teach him a lesson.
At the time yes, but she thought it over and realized that the reward far outweighed any risk (there were non).
His wacky ideas are often wrong, and eventually he gets it right. He never accepts no, and in many cases that comes with a serious risk he ignores because he just wants to solve the puzzle. She told him no, because he had 0 evidence. It was all a hunch, doctors can’t treat patients based on nothing but a hunch, especially in the US. If they can’t back it up they could get fired, sued, or even closed down.
42 jade That doesn’t make any sense. It’s honestly up there as one of the oddest common conspiracies I have heard.
42 jade this is House. The only time financials are discussed is with salary and destruction of equipment/property. Even if your sheeple theory were true, House would never portray that. And if they did, they would bring on a “villain” character to say that
At the expense of somebody walking and having a normal life and being a father to his again?
It pretty fucking evil actually.
Dr House is a high risk high reward kind of guy. Managers hate these kind of people. This is the curse of genius.
More like bye risk hi reward he always gets it right
It's not "high risk high reward" if there's no risk. lol
A good manager will use highly intelligent people appropriately. Used correctly, they're very good at solving complex problems. Generally, they either work alone or have their own team.
This is often a problem in technical fields. A manager is brought in to administer an engineering team. None on the engineering team seemed suitable, but the department head knows a sales manager wants a promotion to this grade, so they are given it. They actually know little about engineering, so say "no" to everything for fear of being wrong. This is why house and cuddy work - she knows enough to understand him but not enough to not need him. She also knows he cares more than he lets on, and a lot of his gruffness is an affectation to cope with his continual physical pain and frustration at many people's carelessness of health. Perhaps a little haunted about those he couldn't help. Doctors can't wear their heart on their sleeve and continue to function. Which may be why she's doesn't practice much any more...
@@Rapscallion2009 What a sad world where you put managers who know nothing about what they're managing. It's like putting an obese person who never exercises and constantly eats junk food as the Health Minister of your country.
Every time I see the ending of this episode , it infuriates me. It perfectly demonstrates one of my biggest issues with "people". Those closest to you who claim to love you will willfully lie to you "for your own good" or "what (name) doesn't know won't hurt him".
It's a blatant violation of trust and a betrayal.
Yeah, avoid people like this in your life.
Ever had to protect a schizophrenic by pulling funds "fraudulently from their bank account? Or "illegally" medicating their soup when they go off the meds? Pretty risky behavior but you would be thanked later. Everybody lies.
@@jeffmilroy9345 So, you advocate for doing things like that to perfectly normal people with zero mental issues??? Do you justify it for someone who just "knows better"? Do you justify someone keeping things from see omeone else only to avoid the inevitable reaction to their poor choices and decisions that we ill eventually effect the one it's being kept from too??? I understand your point with severe mental disorders. But in normal people, this is just narcissistic behaviour.
No, narcissistic behavior types would not do the things I mentioned. They would have let the subject sink or swim. It comes down to caring about someone and taking a stand. Not really anything more than an evolved conscientious trait that follows a normal distribution. It did not matter anyway - the person was grateful for the intervention but committed suicide. Be thankful it is not a problem that presents to you.@@michaelkindy3850
@@michaelkindy3850 I don't believe that's what they were advocating. I believe they were playing devil's advocate about how there are always occasions where sometimes one can't always be upfront and honest to those they love, no matter how much they wish they could be.
I love the House 'epiphanies'. When he is doing or saying something and stops midway through as a connection is made to the case at hand. Always a generic staple but it never gets old and always exhilarating to behold.
8:25 That "thank you" belongs to House. That glory of being right belongs to House. I hate it when someone takes that away from him :'v
Here is one thing I really love about these shows, is that House is obviously not fully there, he's above average and obviously very detached from basic human emotions, so for things like showing up at your bosses house in the middle of the night is normal, it's really wild and admittedly a really strong form of human acceptance.
There’s an episode of house where someone dopes cough syrup to “dumb” down, because they’re too smart. Intelligence and loneliness play hand and hand.
“He got lucky.” 30billion times each season for 10000 seasons.
It's not luck if he's ALWAYS right, what a stupid thing for Wilson to say. He wanted to chop down house a bit because of his own inferiority complex, no other reason.
Why hasn't everyone learned to just listen to House???
Because he breaks so many laws/regulations with his process
Plus the theories he makes are like 1 in million or something. They're such a specific situation that most of the time the doctor would be counted as over thinking the case.
It takes 1 in a million reaction to something for them to start considering houses insane plan sometimes
Because Gilligan would get off the island!
Every show needs filler.
im assuming there are cases we dont see that house doesnt always get right. i think its implied
Cause the sexual harassment suits
6:55 This moment is so good. It's not only Cuddy believing and lamenting that she couldn't heal a patient, but she's also worried about House's state of being. If he's wrong, that means she's right, and House is seriously an addict who needs help.
Not telling House was the wrong decision. His "guess" in this episode is no different than his "guesses" in other episodes
I wish house was real because where he works is so close to my house
#awesome7 Lol but then house says he only takes in 1in20 patients and leaves you to suffer
Now, which house are we talking about?
#awesome7 Lol he is the one doctor that i would listen too. 🤣
House living near your house
Are you a one-in-a-million kind of medical rarity? If no, he probably would not care.
I watched this series when it aired and I was young. My dad had Multiple Sclerosis and this episode kinda hit me. I didn't really understand the desease back then and when I saw this man pop up the wheelchair like that I went and told my dad about it, and wanted to know if he had tried that med before. My relationship with him was always hard because of his desease, and I kind of locked up from him in my mind as a coping mechanism. That conversation with him that day, about experimental medicine and whatnot that he had tried was one of the only true and honest conversation we had. He passed away through euthanasia by his own choice back in 2015. And everytime I see this scene or episode... I tear up. I remember my dad. I remember that chat with him and I feel regret, nostalgia, happiness and lots of other emotions that I don't really understand. I love House. This is just one episode, but there's a lot of emotional ones that come to mind that have helped me cope with things, and also understand some from another perspective. Now I'm gonna have to re watch it again... Oh, well...
Some of the comments were as uplifting as the episode.
Lame!
House should've done it without asking permission. The whole point was that the treatment had no downside. There's never anything wrong with trying something that only has upside.
His judgment was fine.
Yeah, it was a weird one to make a stand on. With no possible downside
He didnt did it because he though Cuddy was right. He didnt had medical reasons to think that was a correct treatment
House was off-balance, he was anxious over the prospect of his leg pain coming back, and after cuddy and wilson fixed his leg and vicodin problem (both without his consent) he started to think that they were right and he was wrong, since they solved the problems he couldn't, and he was the only thing in the way. He began to believe that his obsessive diagnosis was incorrect too, when in reality it was saving lives. House let his emotions cloud his judgement and as a result a patient would have been disabled for the rest of his life, if not for cuddy trying his treatment. I count this one as a house loss along with the photosensitive anaphylaxis case that he thought was flesh-eating bacteria, because victory comes not just from being clever enough to know how to win, but also having the conviction to do what is necessary to. Overall though house's actions are understandable, although I'm not sure why wilson did what he did.
it shows character growth by house. And gives the character a win against Cuddy.
@@macmcleod1188 Is bowing to others on important issues when you're right character growth?
This is by the far the best House Moment. It captures the core essence of House the series. It is the reason why we always come back for more of House. It is for that transformative glimpse of humanity, risk and greatness.
"Everybody lies." from Wilson carries so much and I love it.
House gonna watch this show later and be like "wtf Cuddy"
I think he got his own back
😂 😂
House: here's a zero risk, low cost solution that might cure this man.
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Cuddy: I hear you... but I'm just gonna let him slowly die to teach you a lesson.
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WTF?!?!?
I mean, nothing is ever zero risk and he could've done some blood tests to prove his theory. But sure. This is a show that most of the time isn't medically accurate at least in the sense that this isn't how one would go about diagnosing things.
@@skiaddict767 that's really not the point lol
This illustrates the biggest problem I had with this show, House is right but he always has to deal with everyone constantly telling him he is wrong because of their own egos.
Everyone lie
Well, House is never always right. Like when he almost had that girl's entire arm amputated, but Chase correctly diagnosed her at the last second
Can't tell you how many times I've heard "the tests came back, you're healthy," then why do I still feel sick?
Or they don’t when why you are having so much pain. Then you get the “you’re a drug seeking addict treatment.”
I hate doctors that dont care,I get why they are the way they are,but damn I came in for something and I got shoed away.
House’s entire job is about making theories and testing them when nobody fully knows what is wrong. Sometimes he puts patients at risk, but this time his theory had zero risk.
Cuddy might as well fire him if she will say no to a quick, unintrusive test with no risks
This is one of the first miracles out of house I just couldn't stop smiling at. The way he got out of that chair and hugged his family with every muscle in his body he *just* got back again
Every episode:
"No way, that's impossible"
"Wow, house, you saved their life"
"Hopefully that's the combination he was using... be a shame if I had cured a pedophile. "
Just the delivery of that from Laurie, it really was perfect casting.
It's so refreshing seeing a doctor. Even just on TV who's an addict and cares about people. Won't look down his nose at you as an addict.
I am so sad and sorry for House, everyone is just shitty to him all the time, when he always genuinely saves the day for everyone, and then Wilson persuadeing cuddy to not tell him, and cuddy does what he says, and takes all the credit for healing the man, it seems like they are all envious of House's wisdom. This happens too often in the real world, imagine a young medic finds a chance of healing someone, but the treatment get denied by the boss, because he doesn't want someone to know better than him.
In our society everyone just wants to get through his own opinion, without even listening and discussing the others.
House eventually finds out because the family comes back to thank Cuddy, and he catches them
@@christophersmith8848 Isn't that also why he punches Wilson too? I remember him punching both Chase and Wilson in the show.
when he hugged his wife first I was like "oh no!!!"
If it were up to Wilson, that guy would still be paralyzed
“Because he’s House” is a valid reason in this argument
I always think back to the episode about the three cases when I watch this. It made me realize that this was the kind of genius that House was before the drugs. He is amazing on them, but before, when he was younger, sober, happier, House must have been supernatural.
Diego Lopez, Was he ever really happier? I have to question that.
@@mitchellmelkin4078moments of happiness is the more likely, rather than consistent happiness
Cuddy’s actress did a phenomenal job portraying what it must feel like to witness a medical miracle. I imagine as a physician to see someone paralyzed walk again is an unbelievable feeling.
House is a perfect doctor. Couldn’t care less about the moral side of things, just cares about fixing problems, even if they include doing horrible things
That’s not a perfect doctor though. Doctors are not supposed to be Machiavellian Princes.
@@dorymarshall5477 Nothing in the code of ethics about that. But what IS in the code of ethics is "Do no harm." Seems doctors and the entire medical profession has forgotten that over the past 2.5 years.
@@fleatactical7390 I don’t want to comment on the last part, because that is more on the insurance people than the doctors. However, “do no harm” is exactly the command that doctors are bound to that I warned about. They are not told to do harm if it results in the saving a patient’s life, they are told to be methodical and try to save the patient’s life in the safest way possible. One of House’s MOs is that he used the treatment, which in many cases worsens patients if the disease it is designed to treat is not present, to diagnose them.
I finally got several doctors like House, and they helped put me in remission for my undiagnosed Cancer, which "specialists" had misdiagnosed me for 7 years, calling me a hypochondriac. Go teaching hospitals - specifically Stanford and the old San Francisco General hospitals.
@@fleatactical7390 Do no harm is supposed to be interpreted as "Do nothing that would leave the patient worse off intentionally."
"next time hes gonna kill someone" no dude, not with a single cortisol injection lmao
Agreed. It's not like House said, "we need to perform brain surgery and there's a 50% chance he will die." There was no risk, here.
House has a completely genius breakthrough every few days and they constantly let him do random treatments that “might” help AND have downsides. This is a no downside idea that could literally cure him and they shut him down.
Has regularly jumps to conclusions and flings things against the wall hoping they'll stick and after being wrong two or three times eventually has an epiphany which might be right but they have no way to know other than flinging it against the wall because all of the prior treatments they tried have prevented a proper diagnosis of the correct thing this time
To be fair to them, usually the patient is dying fast and if they don't take risks the patient is a goner. In this case the patient wasn't deteriorating, so there arguably was no reason to take any risks like they usually would. But like you said, this treatment wasn't risky, so still a bad call.
Imagine being woken up at two in the morning by a knock at your window and it's House that starts talking about symptoms.
I agree with all the compliments to the wife she did awesome, but I gotta say the son’s smile as his dad hugged him was so genuine and comforted-he hasn’t felt that hug from his dad in a long time
House is brilliant. Others can't understand brilliance and clairvoyance.
What a powerful scene... Brings a whole new light to paralysis. This woman that portrayed the wife did an amazing job imo.
I was going through a break up and oddly enough house md recommendations keep appearing on my youtube suggestions. I still don't feel okay from the break up but watching these clips makes me feel so much better. To whoever is running this, thank you.
This had to be one of the best episodes of the whole series. The actor who played Richard gave an outstanding performance.
It was so heart warming seeing the husband get up from the wheelchair and everyone crying, it made me cry also
Cuddy: “it’s cortisol...it’s to fight infection”
Anyone with medical knowledge: spurts their coffee through the nose
You know it was an intentional inaccuracy/lie right so the family wasn't suspicious and wouldn't ask more questions.
s1dest3p they(the first comment)wanted to let everyone know they went to medical school
@@cornyname422 exactly lol
Corny Name lmao right like someone goes to medical school
Um, if she wanted to lie, she should’ve come up with a better lie that would not be disproved a by a simple google search, thus potentially inducing an even more questions that could lead up to a lawsuit. The way she explained it to the family is like saying she added sugar to a drink to make it more bitter.
The acting at the end is so amazing. By all involved. Beautiful. Just beautiful. Fantastic work.
Cuddy is great, her expressions are priceless the best of most other actors.
It’s 9:45PM, I’m getting ready for bed, and a new House vid is uploaded. Guess what I’d rather do? The answer is yes
Festive Skeleton it’s 12:20am
@@jasonmason6910 it's 17:43 for me rn.
No! You should never sleep when there is a new House clip!
Oh hellllllll nah bro I was 9 minutes in the video when I said this comment. Time:9:54
noobmaster69 well it’s 23:23 here in Western Australia
8:59 what Wilson doesn’t understand here is that just because Cuddy didn’t have a medically valid reason to think house was right, in the end, she thought he was right because HE had a valid reason himself
This says a lot of House’s mind, even when he is doubting himself and can’t find a medically reasonable treatment, his subconscious gives him the answer even when he can’t really explain why it’s the answer. It’s just House’s natural medical talent after spending years of learning medicine and solving complex case after case
When Wilson said "everybody lies" I could see him embrace his inner House.
"What made you think he was right?"
*New Vegas theme starts
Because the house always wins
Wilson and cuddy were so mean in this episode.
Mostly Wilson. Cuddy did want to tell House was right and finally in next episode she confessed in order to make him again risk-taking brilliant doctor with crazy ideas like he was before and after that episode . But if it was up to Wilson, House would never discovered the truth and became just another mediocre very cautious doctor who would be less effective and practice only 100 % safe game.
They say cuddy’s heart grew 3 sizes that day
Years passed for this scene and its still my favorite, gives me chills each time .
It gives me hope that everything got a solution at the end even if everything says the opposite
Even if everything indicates that it’s all going to be worse still there is always hope
Thank you for posting these clips. They are powerful reminders of just how good this series was.
"Next time he won't get lucky and he'll kill someone"
Wouldn't that apply to the opposite?
He'll hold back more and the patient will die? :V
double edged sword right there
“Just because he was right doesn’t mean he wasn’t wrong”
I guess Wilson watches Fate/ Stay Night
So he and Emiya have the same medical condition: Being absolute dumbasses.
Anyone else tear up at this scene when he stands up? The acting from everyone in the scene was so on point. Could have been cheesy but executed perfectly.❤️
I hate that they’re so hell bent on him NOT being high. Some people think that everyone must be normal and miserable, and anyone who is happy, they need to bring that person down.
every time I see the dude stand up and hug his wife I get teary-eyed...by far one of my most favorite episodes
No, he didn't get lucky Wilson. Intuition isn't luck, he had a theory based on knowledge and observations, the risk was almost non-existent. So he was write about his theory and he deserved to know that.
It's not luck if he's ALWAYS right, what a stupid thing for Wilson to say. He wanted to chop down house a bit because of his own inferiority complex, no other reason.
@@Lewdacris916 The problem is that he ISN'T always right. Sure, he usually has it figured out by the end of each episode but look how many times he gets it wrong first.
@@Blasted2Oblivion
Congratulations. You just described the scientific method.
House always gets it right in the end because he STUDIES and INVESTIGATES the issue. He's based on Sherlock Holmes. Need I say more?
@@DeathMessenger1988 That would be fine if he were experimenting in a lab but he is dealing with patients. His trial and error method isn't a good thing when it's a person's life being destroyed while it is being saved.
@@Blasted2Oblivion
The whole process of House treating patients is figuring out what's wrong with them. Surprise, doctors aren't omniscient. That's the whole point of the story and House's character.
The other option is just staring blankly into the void while the patient slowly withers and dies because you can't figure out what's wrong and can't risk giving treatments because you don't know if they'll work 100%. By that logic, why give chemo to cancer patients since chances are they'll die anyway?
And in this guy's case, his life is ALREADY destroyed. House spent the whole episode figuring out how to FIX that. And you can bet he would have been thanking House for it if Cuddy hadn't stolen credit because of the humbling conspiracy bullshit.
Top 5 Awesome Moments in House MD. The acting when he was standing up gives me shivers every time. That and the autistic kid making eye contact with House is crazy!
Yes I like the autistic kid too
and the little girl with cancer that kissed chase !!
House literally went back on drugs because he thought he couldn’t solve cases without the Vicodin. Cuddy and Wilson caused his relapse by not telling him. This one episode modified both of their characters so much and makes them nearly evil.
How long will it take for them to realize house is actually a clairvoyant who knows everything before it even happens, he doesn't need evidence, he's like batman he can do anything
no