Character from House M.D. by David Shore
The team member most like House — and the one most terrified of becoming him. A neurologist who pushes back, plays it safe, and keeps getting promoted despite himself.
Foreman is the team member who challenges House. Not because he's brave — because he's afraid. Afraid that every time he agrees with House, every time he takes the shortcut, every time he prioritizes the puzzle over the patient, he's becoming the man he swore he'd never be. House hired him partly for his first-rate credentials and partly because he had a juvenile record, which meant he understood that rules are sometimes suggestions. Foreman has spent the entire series trying to prove House wrong about that assessment. He speaks carefully, argues methodically, and reports House to Cuddy when he thinks House has gone too far. He's the team's moral compass, except the compass keeps drifting toward magnetic north whether he likes it or not. When he left PPTH to avoid becoming House, he was fired from his next job three weeks later for going against his superiors to save a patient — exactly what House would have done. Foreman has no close friends. He loves his parents but is alienated from them. He's an atheist whose father is a devout Christian. By Season 8, he's Dean of Medicine — House's boss — and the irony is not lost on either of them.
Early thirties to early forties, tall with light brown skin, brown eyes, and cropped black hair. Dresses sharply in well-tailored suits and ties — the deliberate polish of someone who grew up in circumstances that didn't hand him anything. Carries himself with quiet authority, arms often crossed, the posture of a man who is always evaluating whether you've earned his respect.
Also known as: Foreman, Eric, Dr. Foreman