Week 13: October 5th-11th

Doctor House: My Favorite show ever

"House M.D [Medical Diagnosis]" is a show about Gregory House, a doctor specialized in Medical Diagnosis, which means that he is one of the few people able to find out very strange illnesses in his patients. We may think this is a regular show about a doctor, but his personality is so different and unique that it gives that special touch to this show, and actually was what made me fall in love with it.

House has a very own way to see reality. His maxim is "Everybody lies" and this was something that really hit me when I saw it. Every time he has a patient, he is the last person to see it, he cares more about the results of the exams than what the person may say because the most probable is that the patient will lie. In general, at the end of every chapter, he must go to talk with the patient basically because he is missing information, the patient is about to die, the tests don't show more data to know what is the correct treatment, and the patient must have been lying about something. Then, House explains that if he doesn't know the truth he can not find the cure and the next step in the procedure will be "dying" (with the coldest and cruelest way to say it, including in several times irony and sarcasm).

Of course, the show is not only about him. He is the head of the department of medical diagnosis, so he has a team made of three people. In the first seasons (are eight in total) there are Cameron (a sweet, caring  women who falls in love with him ), Chase (A rich cute sexy doctor), and Foreman (the black neurologist doctor (it's not my intention to be racist but is to show the perspective that House gives about him)). I think that from the 4th to 5th season these doctors quite to their job, and House has a new team.

Every chapter treats very rare diseases and the different methods that House use to deal with the lies of the patients make every 45 minutes worth it. Besides, there is a lot of drama and fun, comming from the human relationships on the show, and the hilarious sarcasm and irony from House.

Now, why do I like it so much? 

And this is where I relate this with my life...

I consider my self a very transparent person. I can tell that I don't have many secrets, and the ones I have are not very relevant. My life has been so clear for the people who know me that actually, it has been a disadvantage for me sometimes, but I have no interest in changing that. I like being transparent, and not hiding when I like or I don't like something... or someone. But, and this is what I learned from this magnificent show, and yes, I didn't have any idea of this and this had never gone through my mind, the fact that I'm transparent doesn't necessarily mean that all the people that surround me are transparent too...

When I watched this show, and I kind of realize that actually everybody lies, and not all the time, but everybody is a potential lier made me feel so vulnerable, and I started thinking on how every single person I had known in my life could have been lying to me in many ways... That was hard broking and actually happened in one of those hard years of teenage. Even it was significant learning, I negate this from time to time to my self because it's really hard to think about how people could be lying to you, and not even noticing because what is a lie for me is not for someone else, until this year...again.

I'm in a moment of my life that I'm rediscovering that people lie, and do so without compassion, or measurement, or thinking about the other... And that's why I wanted to write a little bit from this show in this blog, which has become a place where I'm not only exercising my writing but expressing some ideas, that I would really like to continue doing.

Now some nice pics and quotes from the show:

And now his maxim:

Thanks for reading.