House 3.21, “Family”
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bironicWell, what I found most interesting was the series of conversations among House, Wilson and the patients’ parents where House... expressed his dismay that Wilson doesn’t bully patients into doing what he thinks is the right thing to do. They’ve touched on the subject of informed consent before; from House’s perspective, they’re doctors, and they know better than their patients about the medicine they’re dealing with, and so sometimes they have to skew the truth or outright lie to obtain the best outcome, because otherwise the patient wouldn’t understand enough to make the “right” choice; and any doctor who lets the patient make the call without first making a recommendation is doing everyone a disservice. Tricky. But anyway. At first I wished they’d gone further with that--had the parents do what Wilson recommended when Wilson didn’t really want to recommend anything, and then have it backfire, and have Wilson feel guilty and then maybe not do everything House tells him to in the future. But that was perhaps the predictable route, and it was nice in a different way to have House and Wilson pressing for something almost certainly fatal and then have the parents finally stand up for themselves. That way Wilson got to push for what he thought was right, and the parents made a decision anyway.
Also, in the tradition of “Autopsy,” House is good at the one-on-one with Wilson’s wise-before-their-time, dying bald-headed children.
Liked how Chase manned the doorway and spoke in a pointedly hushed voice when House & co. invaded the chapel to spring Foreman.
Kinda called the “clue” when Foreman discovered the water spigot (“Oh, look, maybe someone is growing their own weed only there are pigeons leaving their droppings in the water supply and oh no”), except for how it seemed too obvious after “Euphoria.” But apparently not.
Cameron, if you think it’s auto-immune, it’s not auto-immune. It’s never what any of you think it is if you think it’s something within your specialty. Have you learned nothing? This is multidisciplinary medicine.
Speaking of learning nothing. Foreman, who since season one has resisted the idea that he’s like House, but who has kept saying week after week that he’s here to learn from him, wants to resign now that he has proof he actually is like House. Why, so he can go practice medicine somewhere else and pretend he doesn’t have that dark place inside him that gives him the strength do what’s right even when it causes other people pain? The thing Wilson maybe doesn’t have that got House so upset? Running away won’t change the way Foreman is. I hope he realizes that. If he stays around to finish out his fellowship instead, he may find a way to balance House’s approach with Wilson’s, as he tried to do last week, or meld those approaches together with what feels right to him, so he can come into his own as a doctor.
Title time. Family. “How many hours a day do you have to spend with someone before you consider them family?” Wilson wanted to know. Translation: “We spend more than half our bloody lives together, House, so just admit we’re like brothers who watch out for each other and feel guilty when we hurt each other (“I’m sorry.” [nods] “I didn’t mean it.” “Yes you did.”) and hang out and drive each other crazy too.” They just need a little secret handshake now like the patients.
And why, with Wilson and Foreman pretty much competing to convince the parents to choose particular treatments during the hour, did nobody mention possible conflicts of interest or at least explore the possible resonances between the pair of brothers trying to save each other (and the doctors trying to save them) and Foreman and Wilson's own lost/jailed brothers?
House with a pipe, and Wilson beside him, in a suitably old-fashioned pawn shop. ’Nuff said.
No, wait, also Wilson with freshly showered, ruffled hair and the edge of scrubs in his office calling House in the middle of the night.
And Wilson taking someone's shirt off. Sort of.
And okay, because it has to be said: Cute dog. Wanted to cuddle with House in the bed. House does not cuddle.
Also, in the tradition of “Autopsy,” House is good at the one-on-one with Wilson’s wise-before-their-time, dying bald-headed children.
Liked how Chase manned the doorway and spoke in a pointedly hushed voice when House & co. invaded the chapel to spring Foreman.
Kinda called the “clue” when Foreman discovered the water spigot (“Oh, look, maybe someone is growing their own weed only there are pigeons leaving their droppings in the water supply and oh no”), except for how it seemed too obvious after “Euphoria.” But apparently not.
Cameron, if you think it’s auto-immune, it’s not auto-immune. It’s never what any of you think it is if you think it’s something within your specialty. Have you learned nothing? This is multidisciplinary medicine.
Speaking of learning nothing. Foreman, who since season one has resisted the idea that he’s like House, but who has kept saying week after week that he’s here to learn from him, wants to resign now that he has proof he actually is like House. Why, so he can go practice medicine somewhere else and pretend he doesn’t have that dark place inside him that gives him the strength do what’s right even when it causes other people pain? The thing Wilson maybe doesn’t have that got House so upset? Running away won’t change the way Foreman is. I hope he realizes that. If he stays around to finish out his fellowship instead, he may find a way to balance House’s approach with Wilson’s, as he tried to do last week, or meld those approaches together with what feels right to him, so he can come into his own as a doctor.
Title time. Family. “How many hours a day do you have to spend with someone before you consider them family?” Wilson wanted to know. Translation: “We spend more than half our bloody lives together, House, so just admit we’re like brothers who watch out for each other and feel guilty when we hurt each other (“I’m sorry.” [nods] “I didn’t mean it.” “Yes you did.”) and hang out and drive each other crazy too.” They just need a little secret handshake now like the patients.
And why, with Wilson and Foreman pretty much competing to convince the parents to choose particular treatments during the hour, did nobody mention possible conflicts of interest or at least explore the possible resonances between the pair of brothers trying to save each other (and the doctors trying to save them) and Foreman and Wilson's own lost/jailed brothers?
House with a pipe, and Wilson beside him, in a suitably old-fashioned pawn shop. ’Nuff said.
No, wait, also Wilson with freshly showered, ruffled hair and the edge of scrubs in his office calling House in the middle of the night.
And Wilson taking someone's shirt off. Sort of.
And okay, because it has to be said: Cute dog. Wanted to cuddle with House in the bed. House does not cuddle.
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Date: May. 2nd, 2007 02:58 am (UTC)penis cane. Tosses Wilson his ‘I’m sorry treat’ so he’ll continue to perform tricks. Hector should be happy he’s escaping. I wasn’t the least bit sad by the ending. It means all three will leave including Hector.no subject
Date: May. 2nd, 2007 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 2nd, 2007 03:13 am (UTC)Yes. I had the same thought. That Wilson was clearly referring to the two of them.
House with a pipe
Oh! I know! That made me so geekily happy!
And why, with Wilson and Foreman pretty much competing to convince the parents to choose particular treatments during the hour, did nobody mention possible conflicts of interest or at least explore the possible resonances between the pair of brothers trying to save each other (and the doctors trying to save them) and Foreman and Wilson's own lost/jailed brothers?
Good point. That would have been nice.
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Date: May. 2nd, 2007 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 3rd, 2007 01:04 am (UTC)....D:
That's the problem with reading intelligent commentary. It points out all the wrong things/missed opportunities! But, eh, I'm sure that by this point Wilson doesn't have and NEVER had a brother. It was a momentary figment of his imagination. That's why House never knew before. :D