You've heard of killing with kindness? Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) believes in curing with contempt. He is a gifted diagnostician who is fascinated by disease. But patients he can do without. He insults them, talks down to them and forgets their names--when he speaks to them at all. "How can you treat someone without meeting him?" asks a patient's father. "It's easy," he says, "if you don't give a crap about him."
House is, in other words, the opposite of what a TV doctor is supposed to be--and the most enjoyable new character of the fall. Without him, House (Fox,...
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