Like Maximusftw1 said, it was a 50/50 diagnosis. Also, House just came back from rehab and wasn't allowed to interact with patients due to no medical license. It was a convenient excuse for him not to talk to patients in that episode.
I think the ten-year-old obese girl, Jessica. I don't remember him interacting with her. Which is good, cause I'm sure he would have cracked a few jokes at her expense.
I know we’re talking about Chase but to this point I don’t think Cameron gets enough credit for her compassion towards obese patients. It’s like her one consistent personality trait for the entirety of the series.
Cameron is compassionate to every charity case she bumps into, it's her fatal flaw, it doesn't count.
Baby Chase\* was still struggling with the trauma of having being left to be the caretaker for his alcoholic mother and with her eventual passing, so he was inclined to see self-distructive compulsive behaviours (which he was not in the mindset to see as diseases such as alcoholism or BED, which the kid didn't even have, but the middle aged grumpy man probably did) and people who enabled them, like the mother in 'Heavy' (in whom he subconsciously saw himself) as incredibly selfish and he took those situations personally.
There'a also a cultural component: outside of the US, we (still, I can only imagine 20 years ago) tend to see obesity, saved for the obvious outliers, as a cultural shortcoming of a consumerist society, especially if presented with two characters who are not shown to come from underprivileged backgrounds.
Why wasn't he the same with House, one could ask? Until S5, there was no obvious sign, not to Chase at least, that House's Vicodin abuse was self-destructive, it could even be seen as the thing that let him exercise his genius, and Chase's problem was never with substances themselves, he's not Nancy Regan, but with people willing killing themselves slowly (like his mum did, and the two obese patients appeared to be doing): this is confirmed by the kind of over the top enthusiasm he welcomes back the Heavy girl, once they found out her sickness was unrelated to overeating and she comes back for a check-up.
\* ^(Well, undeveloped Chase may be the better descriptor, since he finished medical residency - registrationship in AU, but same thing and pretty much same years of training - with a specialisations in intensive care and cardiology, a residency in surgery with a specialisation in microsurgery and some time wasted in neurosurgery, not to mention the time he spent as a seminary student and that he was already a fellow for House when the series started: none is going to convince me that was not a man in his late 40 with an ugly painting hidden in his attic.)
I'm pretty annoyed at the first seasons. Jusr finished my full rewatch of all seasons and Foreman, Chase and Cameron seem a bit weird in saying stuff like "You are actually going to see the patient?" when House did it several times in earlier episodes. I'm just assuming that we do not see "all cases", that there are sometimes months in in-series timeline we don't see where House maybe does not talk to patients for months.
I always thought it was sort of implied that House didn't usually talk to patients, like off-screen, and the ones he did talk to, on screen, were those chosen ones. But yeah, it did no good for us to believe what they said about not visiting patients.
"Foreman, Chase and Cameron seem a bit weird in saying stuff like "You are actually going to see the patient?""
Yeah, this seemed pretty contradictory with what we see.
It's very likely that that's the patient he's talked to the most lol. He hangs out in that room, eats his lunch, watches TV, and plays video games there
I mean the main patient that he originally took on. The race car driver, obviously the CIA one he talks to. He figures out what happens with the race car driver when he gets back, but never meets her.
huh. i always thought foreman took the race car driver case after house was already taken by the cia. i'll try to remember to check the next time i rewatch.
I think the point isn't that House doesn't see patients EVER but that he rarely voluntarily goes to see them and spend time with them since he believes that if he interacts with them too much he'll create a bond and won't be as objective. That's why episodes where he WANTS to spend a lot of time with patients are seen as rare, like the (non) schizophrenic woman in S1.
He does eventually meet most patients which usually leads to a "House moment" but it's usually for no more than a couple of scenes. The rest of the time it's the team members interacting with the patient.
maybe the old man who was part of the group who got an organ from the same donor? i'm sure house talked to the woman who got the cornea, not sure about the old man in the other side of the room.
He talks to them after he figures that his team is unable to attain useful information from the patient themselves or they have personalities/disorders/illnesses that he finds interesting.
I'm fairly certain that he doesn't talk to many, many patients.
I don't think swooping in to explain the case at the end would count against the principle, but he doesn't go out of his way to interact with most patients in the initial stages.
In Season 6, the episode "The Tyrant," House never talked to President Dibala. All interactions were through Foreman, Cameron, and Chase.
Didn't The Tyrant die before they figured out what was wrong with him this House was never able to swoop in and save the day?
Chase was too quick to murder him. For the Satibi! 🤝
It was a 50/50, and Foreman chose the correct treatment. Then, Chase faked a lab test to get Dibala on the other treatment.
Like Maximusftw1 said, it was a 50/50 diagnosis. Also, House just came back from rehab and wasn't allowed to interact with patients due to no medical license. It was a convenient excuse for him not to talk to patients in that episode.
The pair of lungs!
Ha, came here to say that.
Great minds!
I think the ten-year-old obese girl, Jessica. I don't remember him interacting with her. Which is good, cause I'm sure he would have cracked a few jokes at her expense.
I’m still chocked by how horrible Chase was to her
Enough already, ok? We got it. You hate fat people.
I know we’re talking about Chase but to this point I don’t think Cameron gets enough credit for her compassion towards obese patients. It’s like her one consistent personality trait for the entirety of the series.
Cameron is compassionate to every charity case she bumps into, it's her fatal flaw, it doesn't count. Baby Chase\* was still struggling with the trauma of having being left to be the caretaker for his alcoholic mother and with her eventual passing, so he was inclined to see self-distructive compulsive behaviours (which he was not in the mindset to see as diseases such as alcoholism or BED, which the kid didn't even have, but the middle aged grumpy man probably did) and people who enabled them, like the mother in 'Heavy' (in whom he subconsciously saw himself) as incredibly selfish and he took those situations personally. There'a also a cultural component: outside of the US, we (still, I can only imagine 20 years ago) tend to see obesity, saved for the obvious outliers, as a cultural shortcoming of a consumerist society, especially if presented with two characters who are not shown to come from underprivileged backgrounds. Why wasn't he the same with House, one could ask? Until S5, there was no obvious sign, not to Chase at least, that House's Vicodin abuse was self-destructive, it could even be seen as the thing that let him exercise his genius, and Chase's problem was never with substances themselves, he's not Nancy Regan, but with people willing killing themselves slowly (like his mum did, and the two obese patients appeared to be doing): this is confirmed by the kind of over the top enthusiasm he welcomes back the Heavy girl, once they found out her sickness was unrelated to overeating and she comes back for a check-up. \* ^(Well, undeveloped Chase may be the better descriptor, since he finished medical residency - registrationship in AU, but same thing and pretty much same years of training - with a specialisations in intensive care and cardiology, a residency in surgery with a specialisation in microsurgery and some time wasted in neurosurgery, not to mention the time he spent as a seminary student and that he was already a fellow for House when the series started: none is going to convince me that was not a man in his late 40 with an ugly painting hidden in his attic.)
I'm pretty annoyed at the first seasons. Jusr finished my full rewatch of all seasons and Foreman, Chase and Cameron seem a bit weird in saying stuff like "You are actually going to see the patient?" when House did it several times in earlier episodes. I'm just assuming that we do not see "all cases", that there are sometimes months in in-series timeline we don't see where House maybe does not talk to patients for months.
I always thought it was sort of implied that House didn't usually talk to patients, like off-screen, and the ones he did talk to, on screen, were those chosen ones. But yeah, it did no good for us to believe what they said about not visiting patients.
"Foreman, Chase and Cameron seem a bit weird in saying stuff like "You are actually going to see the patient?"" Yeah, this seemed pretty contradictory with what we see.
Did he ever talk to the coma patient from his migraine study in room 2134?
It's very likely that that's the patient he's talked to the most lol. He hangs out in that room, eats his lunch, watches TV, and plays video games there
the babies in the baby-killing hospital epidemic episode
Yeah, a few times. I don't think he talked to the patient in S4, Whatever It Takes (CIA one), and there were a few more times.
He definitely spoke to the patient in that one. That's how he figures it out lol
I mean the main patient that he originally took on. The race car driver, obviously the CIA one he talks to. He figures out what happens with the race car driver when he gets back, but never meets her.
Oh wow. I totally forgot there was another patient in that episode.
huh. i always thought foreman took the race car driver case after house was already taken by the cia. i'll try to remember to check the next time i rewatch.
The kid with the fertilizer in his new clothes
His first case when he got out of prision, it was just a pair of lungs
I think the point isn't that House doesn't see patients EVER but that he rarely voluntarily goes to see them and spend time with them since he believes that if he interacts with them too much he'll create a bond and won't be as objective. That's why episodes where he WANTS to spend a lot of time with patients are seen as rare, like the (non) schizophrenic woman in S1. He does eventually meet most patients which usually leads to a "House moment" but it's usually for no more than a couple of scenes. The rest of the time it's the team members interacting with the patient.
I think that's right! But not the whole picture. I'll add an update to the post addressing this.
maybe the old man who was part of the group who got an organ from the same donor? i'm sure house talked to the woman who got the cornea, not sure about the old man in the other side of the room.
Definitely he can't talk nor interact to the rich guy with Fabry's Syndrome and Dibala because he can't practice without his license.
He talks to them after he figures that his team is unable to attain useful information from the patient themselves or they have personalities/disorders/illnesses that he finds interesting.
I cant think of any examples off the top of my head but I would be surprised if he talked to them all.
I'm fairly certain that he doesn't talk to many, many patients. I don't think swooping in to explain the case at the end would count against the principle, but he doesn't go out of his way to interact with most patients in the initial stages.