Dr. House – Bad Guy or Good Guy? [Guest Post]

Cindy Eales is a statistics wizard and fan of House who lives with her two adorable “kitty-boys,” Max & Fritz in St. Louis, Missouri.

I’ve been a fan of House for years; and I’m always on the fence as to whether Dr. House is a sheep in wolf’s clothing or a genuine wolf. Just when I think that he’s an unfeeling jerk; he shows a surprising amount of compassion as in the episode with Dr. Kate Milton, the psychiatrist trapped in the South Pole who was forced to operate on herself.

Or, when totally alone with a patient, if you look really close and don‘t blink, you might catch a look of sympathy cross briefly across House’s features.

But then he leaves a thermometer in a patient’s “ahem” for hours. Jerk. Of course the patient, Detective Tritter, was a bit of a jerk himself.

And House has been known to run horrifically painful and or dangerous tests on patients just to prove a point. Or was it to save a life or teach his residents a lesson?

You have to wonder if this damaged, brilliant character who loves soap operas and his guitar, has a soft spot buried deep within for his patients. For if you don’t really care if your patient lives or dies; then what point would there be in “solving” the case? He might as well work in the morgue.

So we continue watching and wondering what exactly makes the great Dr. House tick; besides his drugs, of course!

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