House M. D. Character Analysis

House M.D. is a medical drama and investigative series that centers on the job of Dr. Gregory House. He is a physician who works at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital as the Director of Diagnostic medicine where he supervises a team of highly skilled doctors who take on medical cases that other doctors fail to solve. In season six, episode three of House M.D, House explores different ways of distracting himself after completing a rehab program. As an addict to Vicodin, he must cut all of his old habits that lead to his self-destruction and using, among which his job. He quits his job leaving his fellows to solve cases on their own while he takes different hobbies that will keep him from using Vicodin. Consistently in this episode the writers use various appeals to force the audience to feel sympathetic towards House and his fellows who both struggle without one another. The authors of this episode are also effective in capturing a very serious subject while using humor to give comic relief in between scenes of intense action or drama.

The episode starts off with a scene showing the patient's original symptoms appear while he is working on producing a video
Foreman is afraid he will not solve the case. And worse, Dr. Taub visits him and tells him he's going to quit because even though he is a good doctor he is not House. Foreman sees his team falling apart, and the patient rapidly declining as he starts to experience hallucinations of his video game. An anonymous doctor, however, tips off Dr. Hadley that his symptoms fit with Fabre's disease. The scene switches to Dr. Foreman sitting sadly in his office, knowing that it was not a result of his actions that cured the patient, but some other doctors. This exemplifies pathos in that it produces sympathy and pity for Dr. Foreman even though it was a failure from the beginning because he stepped into a job that only House could