House M.D. , good doctor or bad doctor (yes I know he's fictional)?

Question

in addition to the bedside manner of Don Rickles, he does consistently seem to make a lot of wrong choices before finally saving the day...

...though I must admit his piano playing with Dave Matthews was amazing...

Answer 1

I think he's a very bad doctor. Of course, he's brilliant, but he has no ethics. It's not just the rudeness or the bad bedside manner, it's his drug use too, and the incidents that could be deemed patient abuse (even though he had a purpose).

Mind you, this is exactly what makes me love the show and his character all the more, but in real life, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

He is a good (actually great) doctor, but he's not such a good person. Anyway, if I ever get sick (hope I won't), he would be the only doctor I want to treat me. He's the only one who can see beyond the test results and everything else, he has his sixth sense, and he would do anything to cure his patients (like that bulimic business woman who needed a heart transplant and he lied for her, just to get her better), he wouldn't give up.

That's the kinda doc I want, someone who can actually tell what's wrong with you, who wants to know what's wrong with you. He is a little insensitive when it comes to diagnosing a patient, but he gets the answer in the end, and that's what matters to me. I don't want Chase, Cameron, or Foreman to be my doctor. If there wasn't for House, they'd never figure out the tough cases.

Answer 4

I see him as an excellent doctor. He is put in a part of the hospital which is like te last chance ward. It's up to house and his staff to figre out the puzzels that have everyone else stumped. The people get to him when all else has failed, so he has the option of trying all sorts of weird techniaues, or the patient diees. So, good doctor, he has to think and think about what is it that everyone else has missed and what can he come up with that is so outrageous that it just might work

Answer 5

Well House is definitely a bit of both. He's a brilliant man but he has the worst manners I've ever seen. In real life if this occurred he'd be out of a job in a day but it sure makes for some great TV drama! ; )

Answer 6

How can anyone say he s a good doctor? I rarely watch this, but in one episode I saw, "Paternity", he wins the day by guessing "it might be [some obscure disease]," and eliminating that possibility by treating the guessed-at disease and nearly killing the patient. At one point, he decides it might be a psychological condition which might have been caused by sexual abuse which is always [performed by] the father," so he accuses the patient s father to his face of sexually abusing his son. "Might be" which "might have been caused by" turns into absolute fact just because House can t think of anything else at the moment. Then, having determined that the patient is adopted to win a bet (after proclaiming that [some absurdly large] percentage of people are not the children of there putative fathers, he confidently bets that the patient is not the child of his putative father), he seizes on the hypothesis that maybe the child was not vaccinated against measles by a mother who herself wasn t vaccinated and he got the virus from her in utero and never got the disease, but much later developed the extremely rare complication of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. This, improbably, turned out to the right diagnosis, but purely by chance. He then cures this viral disease, which has no specific treatment, by means of brain surgery. I m no doctor, but how do you cut out a virus affecting the entire brain? Throughout the whole thing, he treats the patient, the patient s parents, and his fellow doctors like scum, and seems less interested in his patient s welfare than in showing off his knowledge of rare diseases and exotic treatments. If this is your idea of a good doctor, well hey, I can guess illnesses all day (thank you Wikipedia!) and treat people like scum. Does that make me Albert Schweitzer?

Answer 7

I'd rather have him than some of the quacks I saw during my bout w/cancer. It took my hip breaking in 3 places before one would say there might be an issue besides my weight.

House wouldn't quit - or let his team quit - until the underlying issue had been found. That's what I call a good doctor.

Answer 8

All doctors play the guessing game. Some times it seems like he's ready to use every one as a guinea pig but over all he's a good doctor in my opinion.

Answer 9

Well, I think he is a good doctor with poor bed-side manners. He gets the job done! I like him.

Answer 10

he's a great doctor but he's got too many personal issues. he acts like that cuz he feels lousy all the time about the way his life turned out and just wants company in his misery. he wants everyone to hate him as much as he hates himself. needs a psychiatrist.