The show House brings up many different moral and ethical dilemmas in the way Dr. House practices medicine. He rarely actually sees patients and when he does he doesn't show any real care into their problems, he just looks at each patient as a biological problem that needs solving. When dealing with patients he does some pretty unethical things in the eyes of modern medicine. When treating a woman who has come in with unexplainable symptoms, he treats her based only on his judgements without any clear prognosis to back him up. In the end he figures out what is really causing her problems, in this case a tape worm in her brain, and treats her accordingly. Dr. House also has a problem with prescription pain killers and uses his power as a doctor to feed this addiction. In this first episode he sees a patient who he suspects is an addict and is taking about things such as fibromyalgia, he is really just looking for pain pills so house goes to the pharmacy and fills a prescription for vicadon which he pours in his pocket, then he fills the container with candy and gives it to the man. All in all Dr. House's antics are unusual and sometimes very unethical, but he is one hell of a good doctor and solves mysteries many others fail to. If i were to be a fictional character in a medical show, I would want Greg House to be my doctor.
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