katallison

Thanks so much for this! You got me thinking on a whole new track, namely -- how cool would it have been if from the beginning they'd done something to show how House had himself in turn been subject to the medical system, had himself been a powerless patient, and how his own relations with patients are shaped by that experience?

Very unreliable memory speaking--but I think in either the first or second ep, he does imply soemthing like that in regards to his leg--that the doctors refused to listen/didn't know why his leg was in chronic pain and it ended in a leg-stroke (I guess a blockage in his leg?), hence the fact he doesn't have full use and pops vicadin, and possibly why he's so hot for trial and error in diagnostic medicine. Since so far on this show, we have *never* gotten a straight answer to anything whatsoever regarding everyone's past, I've kind of been hoping they'd address it again. It could have been the same ep where it's shown a flash of kids playing soccer at the end of the ep adn then flashes to him looking blankly at an empty soccer field, but man, that was many, many eps ago.

Wow, I didn't realize how many eps this show has been on now. I keep thinking it just started. Gah.