Enjoying the JourneyDr. Gregory House, M.D. Character Profile
July 30th 2008 17:54
I recently posted “Doctor, Doctor! Who is your favorite TV Doc?” which got quite a few comments with people voting for their favorites. It seemed that Dr. Gregory House was the most mentioned doc of the bunch, so here is a brief profile of the character.
Dr. Gregory House, M.D. Character Profile
Dr. House is the son of John and Blythe House. Growing up he was an “army brat”, and moved with his military father to many different countries, including Japan and Egypt among others. He speaks multiple languages thanks to the moving around.
He discovered what he wanted to do with his life when one of his friends was injured in a rock climbing accident which led to a bad infection. When none of the doctors knew what to do they consulted with a man that House thought was a janitor due to the way he was dressed. It turned out that he was a Japanese Burakumin. This Burakumin knew just how to heal his friend, and it was easy for House to identify with the man because of how his own personality makes him an outcast in his own way.
He attended Johns Hopkins for a time before being expelled for cheating off fellow student Philip Weber. He then moved on and got his medical degree at the University of Michigan. This is where he met his now boss Dr. Lisa Cuddy.
House was in love once, with lawyer Stacey Warner. They met when she shot him during a Doctors vs. Lawyers paintball game. They lived together for about five years. Stacy returned to House’s life when her husband Mark became ill and no one could figure out what was wrong with him. House diagnosed him with porphyria and saved his life. During their time at the hospital Stacy slept with House and was going to leave her husband, but House rejected her either to keep himself unhappy, or out of pity for the recovering Mark.
It was Stacy that made the decision to put House in an induced coma to save his life after he had an infarction in his right thigh. He wound up losing a substantial portion of the muscle in his upper leg. This forces him to use a cane to assist him while walking. It also causes constant pain which has led to House becoming dependent upon Vicodin which he pops like PEZ candies.
Dr. House is now the Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. He has a double specialty in Nephrology and Infectious Disease. He is viewed by many to be a diagnostic genius, regardless of his lack of bedside manner, and his acerbic personality.
House’s best friend is Dr. James Wilson, who is head of the Oncology Department at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The rest of House’s team has consisted Dr. Allison Cameron, Dr. Robert Chase, Dr. Eric Foreman, and more recently Dr. Chris Taub, Dr. Laerwnce Kutner, and Thirteen a.k.a. Dr. Remy Hadley.
He has had run-ins with the law, particularly Detective Michael Tritter, whom House had previous seen in the clinic and ended up humiliating him during the exam. His other nemesis for a time was Edward Volger, a billionaire pharmaceutical firm owner that paid $100 million to become chairman of the board of the hospital.
While he is an amazing character, and will probably stick around for at least a few more years I still think he needs those extra years to move up the list of Greatest Docs of All-Time. As I did say previously I would easily put him in my top ten already, I just need more time to move him higher on the list.
Dr. Gregory House, M.D. Character Profile
He discovered what he wanted to do with his life when one of his friends was injured in a rock climbing accident which led to a bad infection. When none of the doctors knew what to do they consulted with a man that House thought was a janitor due to the way he was dressed. It turned out that he was a Japanese Burakumin. This Burakumin knew just how to heal his friend, and it was easy for House to identify with the man because of how his own personality makes him an outcast in his own way.
He attended Johns Hopkins for a time before being expelled for cheating off fellow student Philip Weber. He then moved on and got his medical degree at the University of Michigan. This is where he met his now boss Dr. Lisa Cuddy.
House was in love once, with lawyer Stacey Warner. They met when she shot him during a Doctors vs. Lawyers paintball game. They lived together for about five years. Stacy returned to House’s life when her husband Mark became ill and no one could figure out what was wrong with him. House diagnosed him with porphyria and saved his life. During their time at the hospital Stacy slept with House and was going to leave her husband, but House rejected her either to keep himself unhappy, or out of pity for the recovering Mark.
It was Stacy that made the decision to put House in an induced coma to save his life after he had an infarction in his right thigh. He wound up losing a substantial portion of the muscle in his upper leg. This forces him to use a cane to assist him while walking. It also causes constant pain which has led to House becoming dependent upon Vicodin which he pops like PEZ candies.
Dr. House is now the Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. He has a double specialty in Nephrology and Infectious Disease. He is viewed by many to be a diagnostic genius, regardless of his lack of bedside manner, and his acerbic personality.
House’s best friend is Dr. James Wilson, who is head of the Oncology Department at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The rest of House’s team has consisted Dr. Allison Cameron, Dr. Robert Chase, Dr. Eric Foreman, and more recently Dr. Chris Taub, Dr. Laerwnce Kutner, and Thirteen a.k.a. Dr. Remy Hadley.
He has had run-ins with the law, particularly Detective Michael Tritter, whom House had previous seen in the clinic and ended up humiliating him during the exam. His other nemesis for a time was Edward Volger, a billionaire pharmaceutical firm owner that paid $100 million to become chairman of the board of the hospital.
While he is an amazing character, and will probably stick around for at least a few more years I still think he needs those extra years to move up the list of Greatest Docs of All-Time. As I did say previously I would easily put him in my top ten already, I just need more time to move him higher on the list.
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