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The real villain is the US healthcare system.
Exactly, any normal country doesn’t have patients avoiding the hospital till the bitter end
If anything they specifically avoided the payment issue most of the time. Having a team of 5 specialists just working on a diagnosis for one patient at a time is extremely expensive and most people (even those with some kind of insurance) wouldn’t be able to afford this. If anything they glossed over this entirely on the show.
It’s canon that House never handed in any paperwork. So maybe the patients never got charged?
There’s also the explanation that House occasionally saves wealthy people who then donate large sums to the hospital. That might offset the less affluent people.
Citation needed. Especially men avoid getting medical care even when free. At least from my European experience
Can confirm. European health care systems may be flawed in many ways, but I have personally known people who avoided getting their treatable illnesses treated.
Though if you have the kind of issue where you’d consider taking the risk of a Dr House-intervention, you’re fucked in Europe, too - IME, at least here in Germany doctors absolutely hate investigating the more complicated cases.
Women as well, I had a relative die of (maybe curable) breast cancer, who had avoided screenings because she was scared they’d turn out positive. Yeah. To be honest, I am not much better, I should get some check-ups done.
Wasn’t it a teaching school? Implied that it was cheaper or even somewhat affordable?
But yeah I think he was the villain of the show, in some fashion. His own worst enemy, at the very least
I kind of thought of him as a high-functioning psychopath with some autistic tendencies. He does not really care about the consequences of his actions, and derives his meaning in life from doing a good job only. If that includes helping people, nice, if not, oh well.
IIRC the clinic was free, but “teaching hospital” just means it’s affiliated with a university med school. My local university hospital is definitely not cheap.
If you look at what he did to everyone who surrounded him, made Chase a paraplegic, bullied Wilson and Cuddy unrelentlessly, drove a car through Cuddy’s living room, made Foreman a lesser doctor than he was destined to be, was part of the reason cutthroat bitch dies, not forgetting the misdiagnosis and the general attitude, yeah… He was the villain of the show
made Chase a paraplegic
Can you elaborate on this one?
This is what Wikipedia says as a plot summary, which doesn’t really support your interpretation:
As Chase attempts to biopsy the patient’s rash, the patient suffers another psychotic episode and stabs Chase with a scalpel, lacerating his heart. Chase survives surgery but is left paralyzed. House concludes that the paralysis is caused by a blood clot. Chase regains feeling when surgery is performed to remove the clot that is pressing on his spine, but he faces extensive physical therapy.
That’s definitely a take.
