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“Humility is an important quality. Especially if you’re wrong a lot.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:54:35 +0000

House’s team is treating a patient – musician John Henry Giles for a secondary condition. But Dr. Marty Hamilton, the doctor under whom Foreman did his residency, is the patient’s primary physician. Now House being who he is, moves beyond his mandate and questions Hamilton’s diagnosis itself. To know what occurs next, you will have to see the episode, but it so happens that at a critical juncture, House makes a diagnosis with which no one agrees. And he is found to be right later on. This is when Foreman, talking to Cameron and Chase, comments that it wouldn’t hurt if House learnt some humility. But he is unaware that House has been listening to the whole discussion for quite some time.

Later on Foreman meets House to apologize for being rude, but also says that he said what he said because compared to House, Hamilton’s style involved a lot of humility. But House has the final word (sentence rather).

Houseism from the episode – DNR (Season 1, Episode 9).

“Everyone’s got an opinion.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:17:48 +0000

Does House have a view on the death penalty? If he has, he isn’t telling us. This episode deals with a patient who is an inmate on the death row. Since he is black, should Foreman sympathise with him? Well, he does not, as he has shown before. If he can recover from a troubled past, why should anyone else be granted special favours.

But, as the episode is coming to an end, the diagnosis is such that the man’s illness might have been one of the reasons he is on death row (a tumour that lead to an adrenaline rush, which then made him excessively violent). Here Foreman does soften up a bit (upbringing and biology are two different things according to him) and wants to go and testify in court during the man’s appeal. Does it make it all right for this man to have murdered people when scores of others manage to control their violence? This is House’s counter argument. Foreman is puzzled.
Foreman: You want him to be executed?
House: That’s not what I’m saying.
Foreman: Got an opinion?
House: Everyone’s got an opinion.

Houseism from the episode – Acceptance (Season 2, Episode 1). Get the transcripts for your favourite House M.D. episodes from Twiz Tv.

“We all make mistakes, and we all pay a price.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:16:29 +0000

Do actions have consequences? This is the question House answers through the quote. A husband and a wife, the wife suffering from a sickness which has a few possible causes and the medicine for each one can cure or kill. The decision the husband has to make is whether he trusts his wife so much so as to absolutely deny the possibility that she might have cheated on him. If he trusts her, she might die. If he does not, she might live. What a position to put a person in.

Houseism from the episode – Fidelity (Season 1, Episode 7).

“If you don’t talk to them they can’t lie to us, and we can’t lie to them. Humanity is overrated.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:18:36 +0000

The pilot of House M.D. has some great houseisms. In fact it is crammed with them. Fair enough. What better way to introduce one of the quirkiest geniuses on television. In continuation to ‘everybody lies’, Foreman asks House if he is trying to eliminate humanity from the practise of medicine. House, being what he is, replies that humanity is overrated.

Houseism from the show pilot (Season 1, Episode 1).

“Is a lie a lie if everybody knows it’s a lie?” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:14:43 +0000

House has a patient in a clinic. But he is more interested in her bosom than her problem. He knows they have been artificially enhanced and complements her on the same. And she says they were a present for her husband’s 40th birthday. House can’t let such an opportunity go, can he? So he calls in Wilson for a ‘consult’. After they are done, he asks Wilson – is a lie a lie if everybody knows it’s a lie, meaning, who would believe her statement that they were a ‘present for him’ rather than for herself.

Houseism from the episode – Fidelity (Season 1, Episode 7).

“You know how some doctors have the Messiah complex, they need to save the world? You’ve got the Rubik’s complex, you need to solve the puzzle.” – Dr. James Wilson (to Dr. Gregory House)

Aristotle The Geek — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:49:13 +0000

This is a great episode centering around ace musician John Henry Giles. He comes into the hospital with one condition. But House wants to diagnose and fix another condition, one which has already been diagnosed, and is being treated by another famous doctor. And in doing so, he ends up in court, facing a charge of assault.

Dr. James Wilson is the one friend House has. And he knows House better than most people; that Giles is a puzzle and nothing more. And he points out this fact to House in the courtroom.

Houseism from the episode – DNR (Season 1, Episode 9).

“Truth begins in lies. Think about it.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:50:03 +0000

House cannot figure out what is wrong with Adler. He has not yet talked to the patient. After all, everybody lies. But now, he wants Foreman to go and get her history. Foreman throws House’s assumption back at him – why talk to Adler if she is going to lie anyway? House can’t answer this, can he now? So, truth begins in lies, he says. Bring me the sack of lies and I will figure out the truth. But he knows he is contradicting himself. And so does Foreman.

Houseism from the show pilot (Season 1, Episode 1).

“You have restored my faith in the human race. You ‘re lying.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:03:07 +0000

This is a very interesting episode with the main case being that of a black senator in the running for president of the US who collapses during one of his campaign speeches. House’s interaction with him is great in itself. But there is another parallel story going on – one with a woman having all kinds of small problems which House is sure is a normal side effect of sex. But she denies that she is having any and he goes out to prove otherwise. And he does prove it, which is when he says – “You have restored….”. But the final diagnosis is a hilarious one.

Houseism from the episode – Role Model (Season 1, Episode 17).

“It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:01:41 +0000

House is conducting a class on diagnostics. And he is diagnosing three different patients all with the same primary symptom – leg pain. During one of the diagnoses, a student questions him as to why a dying man would be more concerned about his dog than the fact that he is dying. And House provides an explanation – humans will lie. They always lie. The reasons may change, but the fact does not.

Houseism from the episode – Three Stories (Season 1, Episode 21). This is one of the best episodes of the season.

“Everybody lies.” – Dr. Gregory House

Aristotle The Geek — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:36:14 +0000

Everybody lies is House’s credo. House, the maverick genius, has seen over the years that people cannot be trusted. That is what makes him a cynic, and a very interesting character.

This episode, Rebecca Adler is his patient and he is diagnosing her case with doctors Foreman and Cameron. And Foreman asks House why is it that they are not talking to the patient before diagnosing her. Is she a doctor? – House asks. No. Everybody lies. She will too. So there is no point talking to her.

Houseism from the show pilot (Season 1, Episode 1).