I think he does. He just doesn't know how to say it. With Chase it's a simple can you get it checked out. With Wilson, he can even just say, I know you were trying to help me. With Cuddy, it's layers and layers of hurt he has to get past before he can say sorry. No one seems to consider that Cuddy's actions in dealing with the whole Tritter thing was blatantly incompetant in itself. Your patient is probably in worse pain - you don't even ask him how it feels like, you just cut off his pills. Of course he's not going to take it well. Everyone seems to forget how the second time round must be that much more terrible for House, because he had three months where he was pain free. I'm not saying that Cuddy didn't have it hard, but there are things she could have done better, things that were in her job description to do better.
I think House is smart enough to be nothing but a manipulative son of bitch. But he isn't. He has rules and ethics that he follows. And at the heart of it, he's just a man struggling to live out his life. And it's doubly hard for him because of his leg and his intellect.
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Date: 2007-03-04 12:46 pm (UTC)I think House is smart enough to be nothing but a manipulative son of bitch. But he isn't. He has rules and ethics that he follows. And at the heart of it, he's just a man struggling to live out his life. And it's doubly hard for him because of his leg and his intellect.