At the last minute I looked over at them. They stood there in their surgical whites, whiter than white themselves," Rogozov wrote later. But when I picked up the needle with the novocaine and gave myself the first injection, somehow I automatically switched into operating mode, and from that point on I didn't notice anything else.
Rogozov had intended to use a mirror to help him operate but he found its inverted view too much of a hindrance so he ended up working by touch, without gloves. As he reached the final and hardest part of the operation, he almost lost consciousness. He began to fear he would fail at the final hurdle. Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up," Rogozov wrote.
Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds. With horror I notice the dark stain at its base. That means just a day longer and it would have burst… My heart seized up and noticeably slowed, my hands felt like rubber. Well, I thought, it's going to end badly and all that was left was removing the appendix. But he didn't fail. After nearly two hours he had completed the operation, down to the final stitch.
Then, before allowing himself to rest, he instructed his assistants how to wash the surgical instruments and only when the room was clean and tidy did Rogozov take some antibiotics and sleeping tablets.
It was a staggering achievement. Rogozov returned to his normal duties just two weeks later. We were told to sit upright with our knees pulled up to our chests. Then if the appendix did burst, in this position we had the best chance of pus draining into the bottom of the pelvis and becoming walled off in an abscess, rather than infecting the peritoneum - the membrane that covers the inside of the abdomen.
To say that House lives his life in a moral grey area would be the understatement of the century. So, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to mention that House also frequently breaks into the homes of his patients in order to gather evidence and clues - and makes his team do so too. The real question is, how does he keep getting away with this?
They're never caught and House never gets anything more than a slap on the wrist or a stern eyebrow-raise when he commands this.
Even if it's ultimately for the greater good, it seems ridiculous that he can't simply ask for entrance from the people he's treating. For a show based on mysteries and finding clues, most of the cases that we are presented with get wrapped up by the end of a single episode. The team of fellows discovers what rare disease the person had, House says something witty, Cuddy rolls her eyes, and everyone is happy.
But, there was one ongoing mystery in the show that never got resolved - the case of House's paternity. We are presented with two candidates for House's father. First, John House, the man whom Greg's mother is actually married to and who raised him. However, for most of his life, House suspects that this man is not his father, and is ultimately proven correct.
Unfortunately, his next candidate also proves not to be his true father - and this thread is left unresolved by the end of the show. While House is a medical doctor, he is also a man in near constant pain from the muscle that was removed in his leg.
To take some of the pressure off of this leg, he walks with a cane. That's what makes it so strange when you realize that the canes he uses over the course of the show are mostly not suitable to give him the support he needs. It makes some sense for House's character to care about style, even when it comes to his canes, but as a man who lives in pain and often goes to incredibly extreme lengths to relieve his pain, why wouldn't he bite the bullet and get a medical-grade cane that's more comfortable to use?
Throughout the show, House's only real friend is the loyal James Wilson. Whenever House needs help or is spiraling out of control, Wilson is there to lend a hand or bring him back from the pits of his own mind. House, in turn, has been there for him at times, particularly towards the end of the show - but these times are a lot rarer, and it is more often House leaning on Wilson for support. Considering how often House has lied to, manipulated, and even harmed poor Wilson, how is it that House has managed to retain his best friend for all these years?
Perhaps some friendships just transcend all logic and sense of personal safety. The main conceit of the character of House is that he is a genius misanthrope who battles with physical pain on a daily basis, as well as the emotional scarring of the event that caused it. As seasons progress, House often finds more and more drastic ways to try and relieve his pain - some of which work; at least, as temporary measures.
The problem is that, whenever House's pain is gone, his genius is diminished; this is not just down to the medicine he takes, as he has the same effect over different kinds of medication. He was portrayed as being a genius before the pain, so why is he suddenly a worse doctor when his pain goes away?
During his childhood, he was uprooted and moved around through many different countries, as his father was serving in active military duty - countries that included Egypt, the Philippines, and Japan. One country that has not been mentioned, however, was England. House has never explicitly stepped foot there in his life. Yet, sometimes we hear the odd British phrase peppered into House's dialogue in place of a more obvious Western saying. In the episode "No Reason", House hallucinates that Cuddy gives him ketamine to reboot his nerve connections.
Near the end of the episode, House comes to, and tells Cameron to tell Cuddy to give him ketamine. Another example is in the episode "Resignation" when Wilson slips House anti-depression medication.
House responds by putting amphetamines in Wilson's coffee. Equipped with a dry and acerbic sense of humor, House is enigmatic and conceals many facets of his personality with a veneer of sarcasm. He appears and sometimes himself claims to be narcissistic although he also shows many signs of self-contempt which would be impossible for an actual narcissist and appears to have a disdain for most people, leading some to label him "a misanthrope.
House is an atheist and it is implied that he is nihilistic. These traits make him something of a byronic hero. Despite his cynicism, he does seem to care about his colleagues to a certain extent and while considering them "idiots" is able to sometimes put aside his pride and apologize when he has offended them in a particularly sardonic fashion.
House uses his flippancy to conceal his affection toward his colleagues, and denies it to the extent that he himself sometimes forgets it. House is a total maverick and has stated that he frequents prostitutes. In one episode, his best friend Dr. Wilson states that House could have Asperger's Syndrome, but later tells House that he only wishes he had Asperger's so he could get away with more in life. Wilson has also told House that his obsession with solving cases has nothing to do with saving lives but that while "some doctors have a Messianic complex, House has a Rubik's complex", that is to say, he's more concerned with figuring out what is wrong with his patients than he is with saving their lives.
The latter he does simply because it's his job. This is shown when he sometimes tries to diagnose patients after they're dead, such as in the episode "97 Seconds".
However, there have been more than one occasion in which he put at risk his career, freedom and sometimes even his life to save a patient, leaving open how much he doesn't care about his patients' lives. Occasionally, House can display the same sort of hypocrisy he decries in others, such as his derision for Cuddy when she had the naming ceremony for her daughter. A particularly egregious example would be his acquisition of a handgun after being shot by Moriarty , while stating to Masters that the Second Amendment is the part of the Constitution which says that people have the right to be stupid.
He also apparently has inherited John House 's service automatic and Mameluke sword. Although House has had a number of co-workers, employers, lovers, and acquaintances during his life, it appears that he has only had seven real relationships during his life. This is primarily because House's personality is most likely a deliberate attempt to alienate those who want to get to know him better. The seven people who have been able to overcome his defensiveness have found a person worth salvaging, or even cherishing.
See also Hilson Wilson is House's best and only friend. Like just about everyone else, Wilson admires House for his considerable medical skills. However, he probably cares more for House as a human being. Wilson has noted that this has led to a co-dependent relationship, with Wilson acting as an enabler.
For example, Wilson has kept House well-supplied with Vicodin and often makes excuses for his behavior to get House out of trouble. For those who know both of them, they realize that Wilson will drop everything when House needs him. When Stacy House's ex-girlfriend eventually left House, it was Wilson who kept him going. As a result, Wilson is very protective of House. However, Wilson is no pushover; he often challenges House over his behavior and is not above tricking him to show House that although he might be right about almost everything, that skill doesn't apply to his own behavior.
In one episode, House pretends to be gay to get the attention of a neighbor and Wilson even proposes to House. See also - Housy House's ex-girlfriend and possibly the only woman House has ever shown outward emotion for. Although their relationship broke up over House's anger about his disability, it's clear that they are physically, emotionally, and intellectually attracted to each other. Unlike most people, Stacy can see right through House's defensiveness and can often see through his attempts to manipulate her.
Most of House's fear of relationships can probably be tracked back to the pain he felt when Stacy walked out of his life. House's father was a strict disciplinarian, but although his punishments were severe, they were never arbitrary or fueled by anger. As a Marine, John probably felt his son would respond well to the same sort of discipline that made him the man he is. Instead, House became the antithesis of his father.
Where John is compulsively neat, House dresses like a slob. The father is punctual while the son is constantly late. Where John is straightforward, his son is manipulative. However, although House clearly wants nothing more to do with his father, it is just as clear that his father wants to have a relationship with his son and share the important things in his life. From the way House treats women, one might expect that his relationship with his mother was troubled.
However, House's mother loves him unconditionally, and the reverse is true as well. It was probably this unconditional love that led House to pursue his dreams. However, House realizes that he is a disappointment to his mother because the thing that his mother wants the most is for him to be happy, and he seems incapable of being anything other than miserable. His wish to avoid his father has the unfortunate fallout of taking him away from his mother as well. For years at PPTH, they seemed to deny this attraction, and each appeared to take active steps to discourage it - House pressing Cuddy's failure to keep active as a doctor and her strict adherence to medical protocol, and Cuddy emphasizing House's lack of work ethic and reliability.
Thinking it is another hallucination, House checks to make sure that he did not take the Vicodin. He had not, and it was true that Cuddy had ended her engagement because of her feelings for House. However, House was unable to face the prospect of losing Cuddy to cancer without resorting to Vicodin, and when Cuddy realized his inability to cope without drugs, she ended their relationship. House was fundamentally incapable of dealing with this rejection, culminating in him deliberately destroying the remains of their relationship by driving his car through her front wall.
More insights into House's view of relationships were obtained in the episode Mirror Mirror. When House was with the mirror patient, Thirteen was in the room with them. The patient chose to mirror House. At first, the patient started to make comments about how good-looking Thirteen was, then he started to express regret about how it was impossible for him to do anything about it.
It appears from this that House would like to have relationships with some of the women he works with, like Lisa Cuddy and Allison Cameron , but knows that pursuing such a relationship would be inappropriate and near impossible. House marries Dominika in season 7, following his break-up with Cuddy.
However, this is just a sham, so that Dominika could get a green card. In season 8, they start living together to prove to the INS that they are a legitimate couple. House's dysfunctionality is further exhibited when Dominika discovers House has been keeping the news of her citizenship from her, leading to her distrust of him and causing her to angrily move out. However, during House's euology in the series finale, Dominika claimed that he "was her husband for real" stating that she couldn't help but love him despite what he did.
When questioned initially, House told Cameron that he hired her for her looks. However, he expanded on that by admitting that he surmised that because she was so good looking, she could have coasted into any sort of life and instead must have chosen to dedicate her life to medicine. Cameron expressed a romantic interest in House on several occasions, and they dated once the one date was Cameron's condition for coming back to work. House has been apparently uninterested in pursuing a relationship - he told Cameron she tends to form relationships with people who need "fixing", and that it is his damaged personality that in fact draws her to him.
House, however, betrays more than a passing interest in Cameron to Wilson in the episode Role Model when he reacts perceptibly to Wilson's comment about 'hitting on' Cameron.
Although Cameron has stated that she is "over" House, neither her colleagues nor Wilson or Cuddy believe her. Both characters retain an ambiguous interest in the other. In No Reason , House repeatedly fantasizes about Cameron, first for her abiding concern for his injury and later as he caresses her with a surgical robot.
This time he actually self-operated, cutting into that mangy leg. House runs out of the drug and — like any addict — needs more. He revisits the lab where the rats are being dosed so that he can steal an extra supply.
But it turns out all the rats are dead.
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