Why would a misanthrope become a doctor?
Depends on which season you're asking
>>220722510More like why would a snarky reddit-tier edgelord become a doctor
>>220722510you can be a misanthrope and also be scientifically inclined. Him being a medical doctor allows him to focus what he loves the most which is solving the puzzle(disease).
Is there evidence that he was a misanthrope before his leg got fucked up and his wife betrayed him?
>>220722510nothing would make you hate humanity faster than being a cop or a doctor
>>220722596This actor is absolute kino in anything he's in. One of the rare ones who can do comedy and drama.
you wouldn't get it
>>220722795Selma Blair's character mentions that he was always difficult to deal with but it got 10x after the leg and the opiate addiction.
>>220722795Depending on the episode the leg changed nothing about him or made him a completely different person There was one where all his pain is gone and he's the most amiccable doctor you'd ever meet Stacy claimed the leg was mostly just an excuse to behave how he always wanted to
>>220722795House was always house. His ex GF, wilson, and dr cunny all mention he was always a dick, but the leg thing just made him meaner and bleaker.
>>220722510how do you know being a doctor didn't make him a misanthrope?he doesn't trust anybody, and it's usually wise
>>220722510Cause he likes puzzles and he cosiders diagnostics to be more like a riddle than publc serivce
>>220722510He loves the science and human physiology is truly fascinating if you're a nerd. Internal medicine can be a lot of solving puzzles by process of elimination and going off bloodwork results etc. He just hates the part of the job that requires dealing with people.What doesn't make sense in retrospective, if he hates talking to patients that much, why didn't he get into research instead? Or just become a pathologist like based Joy from The Pitt? Pathology involves a lot of diagnosis and cross examination without having to see patients face to face. My guess is that he's a boomer so he probably had it drilled during med school that pathology is a specialty for losers and he should become a "respectable" doctor like a good little cog.
>>220722510he was already a doctor before the infarction
>>220722510OP doesn't know the archetype of the wounded healer/shaman.
>>220722800>nothing would make you hate humanity faster than being a cop or a doctorFood Service. Easily.
>>220723042>why didn't he get into research instead?Because he also has a short attention span. His position basically lets him cherry pick the most interesting cases that he can occupy himself with for a week, and then move on to his next obsession. He mentions in one episode that if he didn't go into medicine his second choice was astro-physics saying he was fascinated by the idea of dark matter. a 'thing' out there that cannot be detected directly. He also isn't as much of a dick as he leads himself to believe, and he does enjoy saving lives and usually if a patient does die during treatment it has repercussions that sometimes stick around longer than the episode.
You’re all fake fans he literally tells the story of why he became a doctor. It was because when he was a military brat in Japan the Japanese doctors couldn’t figure something out so they grabbed the janitor because the janitor was super doc but belonged to some untouchable caste so he could only get a job as a janitor, but in that moment it didn’t matter he was despised, they listened to him and respected his directives — because he was right.
>>220723321That story always felt off to me. Assuming it happened when House was a child/young teen, so circa 1970, by that time Japan had passed several anti-discrimination laws to uplift the Burakumin. Now laws don't erase people's prejudices overnight, but if the janitor couldn't find a job as a doctor because he was buraku, how the hell did he become a doctor in the first place? Competition to enter japanese universities is brutal, much more so in the 1940s/50s. So they were tolerant enough to accept him in medical school, but not tolerant enough to hire him? Did he simply learn medicine through self-teaching and never attended med school? And if so, why on earth would anyone trust his advice?
>>220722510Maybe watch the show dumbass?It's repeated like 300 times that House is in it for the puzzles, (and possibly easier access to vicodin)
>>220723042>why didn't he get into research instead?He likes the stakes
Remember that episode where some army kid is about to become a father so he shoots himself in the foot to get discharged so he could raise his son and house just patches him up and sends him back out to die
>>220723321That's part of it but the show makes it a key point that House refuses to be boiled down to one motivation like that And "people like me when I'm right" is kind of a shit motivation in the first place
I made a House reference to my new doc fresh out of residency.She had never seen the show.:(
>>220722510Because it pays well and gives him puzzles to solve. (He doesn't actually hate anyone, he obviously cares deeply for his patients)
>>220723724OP here. I've never seen House lmao.
>>220722510>why are so many cops tyrant scumbags when they are supposed to be the good guys? power and status attracts evil
>>220724160My neurologist convinced me to watch houseAt least my shitty public health system got something right lmao
>>220724160Please spare all your colleagues this pain
He was there purely to be racist
>>220722933sela ward, prosopagnosia-san
>>220722800>he's never worked retail
>>220722510He's good at it
