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House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner (Smart Pop series)

House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner (Smart Pop series)
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Editor: Leah Wilson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-11
ISBN: 1933771232
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Smart Pop

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Book Review: As piercingly intelligent as Doctor House himself.
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is an excellent dissection and critical discussion of the qualities that make House not merely a popular show, but rather, what makes the character of Gregory House so intriguing. While a few of the essays suffer from a degree of sameness regarding the subject matter, two of the standouts are the "Art of the Bastard" essay by Karen Traviss, and "Does God Limp?" by James Gilmer.

'Bastard' shows us House as seen from the UK, where sarcastic, smug, intelligent anti-heroes may be thick on the ground, while compassionate thorough medical care as shown at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital assuredly is not. While most of the characters in House may refer to House as a 'bastard who's the best there is at his job', to paraphrase, Traviss provides a strong argument that when you get down to it, House really isn't a bastard at all.

'Limp' delves into the issue of chronic pain, which on the show is used as a counterpoint to the usual 'God Complex' that gifted TV doctors seem to invariably develop. Aside from his impatience with the meaningless social niceties that people expect, House also is in pain, all the time, and has to find ways to function - at a higher level than many of us would ever be capable of. Many of the behaviors that House's coworkers write off as lazy, immature, or quirky are, Gilmer explains, not uncommon methods of coping with chronic pain patients. While most of us are passingly familiar with varying degrees of pain, very few of us are at all familiar pain that can not be relieved, only temporarily dulled. For being allegedly brilliant doctors, very few of House's coworkers seem to have any recognition of the symptoms or treatment of chronic pain.

If you buy the book for those two essays alone, you will not be disappointed, but while those stuck out the most, many of the others offer good insight into the making of a character, of a TV drama series, and in the grounding of the people who bring it to life.

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