House: 7x08 "Small Sacrifices" - Discussion and Spoilers

[gh4chiefs]

I thought Cuddy would say something to House When he said 'I will never lie to you again' when he apologise.

I fully expected her to say "You just did."

 

[Trekker4747]

Or just an "everybody lies" with a sly smile and then they frigging hug and make-up like damn adults who both realized the other's position, found a common ground and moved on with their damn lives.

 

[Jax]

Cuddy needs to grow up, shes runs a Hospital and House saves lives in that hospital because of his actions. He may pretend he lies for fun but he does it because saving lives is more important.

I love the House vs. GOD stuff because it shows how crazy religion can make people.

 

[Trekker4747]

Cuddy needs to grow up, shes runs a Hospital and House saves lives in that hospital because of his actions. He may pretend he lies for fun but he does it because saving lives is more important.

Well, for House anyway, "solving the puzzle" is more important. But there has been the occasional patient where he has lied to/for because he found a "connection" with them and did everything he could to save them.

Coming to wind was a woman he had for a patient in S1 who ended up needing a heart transplant due to her using ipecac to aide her bulimia. The ipecac damaged her heart and is on the list of things that'd get her excluded from a transplant list.

So House had the choice of either being honest with the Transplant Committee which would mean his patient wouldn't get the heart (given she the likely hood she'd burn through another one due to her bulimia problems) and die. Or he lies to transplant committee, doesn't tell them about the ipecac and she gets the heart. He did the latter knowing full-well it could cost him his medical license if anyone on the Transplant Committee found out (including Cuddy and Wilson (both of whom had their suspicions and this was during the time when Volger (a new Chairman of the Board) was breathing down everyone's necks to get the hospital in-line.)

The patient, post-op, asked House, "Why did you do this for me? I mean you barely know me and you risked so much."

House: "You're my patient... Don't screw this up."

So, yes, House does lie to Cuddy and committees for the "good of his patient." This was one of those cases. And, again, a case where the patient's odds under the "risky treatment" were better than they were under no treatment!

 

[sidious618]

Well, for House anyway, "solving the puzzle" is more important.

No, saving lives is more important to him; he just acts like he only cares about the puzzle.