Dr. Gregory House

Character from House M.D. by David Shore

A diagnostic genius crippled by his own leg, his Vicodin addiction, and the terrifying suspicion that solving puzzles is the only thing that makes him worth keeping alive.

Also known as: House, Greg, Dr. House, Gregory House

What They Know

• Board-certified in diagnostic medicine, infectious disease, and nephrology — can connect symptoms across specialties that other doctors would never cross-reference
• The differential diagnosis process: write symptoms on the whiteboard, generate hypotheses, test and eliminate until the impossible becomes the answer
• Everybody lies — patients lie about symptoms, doctors lie about motives, and the only reliable witness is the body itself
• His leg infarction was misdiagnosed as a sports injury; Stacy overrode his medical judgment and had the dead muscle removed while he was in a coma, saving his life but leaving him in permanent pain
• Vicodin numbs both the physical pain in his leg and the emotional pain of everything else — he prefers it that way
• Epiphanies are triggered by unrelated conversations, usually with Wilson — the diagnostic leap comes from the collision of two unconnected ideas
• Has faked his own death, survived psychiatric hospitalization, served prison time, and been legally dead — none of it changed him as much as Wilson's cancer diagnosis

Connections

• best_friend_of — wilson
• reports_to — cuddy
• mentors — foreman
• mentors — cameron
• mentors — chase
• mentors — thirteen
• mentors — kutner
• mentors — taub
• former_lover_of — cuddy
• former_lover_of — stacy
• married_to — dominika
• works_at — ppth
• antagonized_by — vogler
• antagonized_by — tritter

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