this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
190 points (98.5% liked)

Greentext

7236 readers
991 users here now

This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works
190
house rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 days ago by rumschlumpel@feddit.org to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never seen an episode of house, but based on secondhand accounts, this is how I imagine an episode going:

House: hello, it's me, Dr house. I bet all of you that I can identify some crazy disease.

Unimportant Dr 1: You always do that

House: you are stupid and you should feel bad.

[Patient enters]

Patient: Doctor, I got bit by my dog.

House: You are stupid and should feel bad.

Unimportant Dr 1: House! You can say that to a patient!

House: Of course I can, it's true. [Starts spitting out slurs]

Unimportant Dr 2: I'm so sorry about Dr house, let me dress that wound.

House: No! The patient can't be treated!

Dr 2: why??

House: I'll never tell. 😏

[Patient faints]

House(to Dr 2): How could you be so stupid!?

[House grabs nearby syringes and begins injecting the patient]

[Patient wakes up]

House(to Dr 2): If you weren't so stupid, you would've gone to the patients house, kidnapped their dog and beheaded it. You see, this dog has a penchant for eating people with AIDS. So when the dog went to bite the patient, the patient got AIDS.

Patient: I have AIDS?

House: You are stupid and disgusting and you should feel bad.

Dr 1: I guess I owe you, House!

House: Give me the hospital's supply of morphine. I am a drug addict.

[Omnes exeunt]

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 6 points 22 hours ago

If you had just put Vicodin instead of Morphine it would have been 100% accurate. Although he does take Morphine a couple times as well, so maybe that's just splitting hairs.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The thing about Housebis all the medical cases are real. None of the rest of it is real, that's drama, but the basis of the medical cases are all actual things that genuinely happened. Some of the details may have been changed for the purposes of the story but none of them are impossible medical situations.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

Isn't it a teaching hospital though? I thought the whole point was that it was one of the few places House could actually work because he would cost every other hospital too much money.

[–] mtpender@sh.itjust.works 87 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The real villain is the US healthcare system.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly, any normal country doesn't have patients avoiding the hospital till the bitter end

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Citation needed. Especially men avoid getting medical care even when free. At least from my European experience

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

That's definitely a take.