What Geek Media Do You Refuse To Partake In?

[Ruin Explorer]

Oh Homeland. I had the same reaction as House. Its ok for a min, but eventually you realize that no matter how smart or good at their job this person is, nobody would put up with the liability. She has a mental disorder that requires medicine and the CIA puts her in charge of a foreign CIA station? Guess what happens? Cmon...

I think you have too much faith in spy agencies.

They're nowhere near as competently or safely run as hospitals. Hospitals have legal liabilities, and require a degree of transparency and traceability. Spy agencies have legal immunity and total secrecy. And indeed the CIA particularly have been doing demented cowboy stuff the whole time they've existed, it's their USP, and whilst they dialled it back a bit in the 1990s (it continued in the 1980s, I mean, need I provide examples lol? Iran-Contra baby), then they turned it back up to 11 post-9/11. I don't think they'd have let her continue but for simple reasons of sexism (any mental illness a woman has is treated as being far more severe than a man with the same, particularly by the kind of person who works in intelligence), not because they wouldn't let someone with mental health issues work there.

Also in the present day says "LMFAO" to the idea that the people who run the FBI/CIA/etc. need to be sane, competent, intelligent, qualified, or the like. I mean come on. What's happening right now is way more of a stretch than that. Though I don't think many people saw that coming, to be fair.

I didnt watch it start to finish but saw more like a handful of eps each seasons. I recall him driving a car through an actual house and was pretty much done with the idea of ever watching it start to finish.

That's from what should have been the very last episode of the show.

They put him in a mental hospital after that and that's where most of the rest of the show takes place - but should absolutely have ended in the episode you're describing.

 

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House makes a bit more sense if you put in perspective that the place he works is actually a smaller suburban hospital. They have access to modern equipment, but they don't use bleeding edge tech or research grade stuff. He lives in an apartment, has no dependents, and IIRC doesn't even own a car. They talk in the show a couple times that the hospital actually has a budget specifically for his insurance and lawsuits, which ostensibly is a factor in his pay.

Which is a long way of saying: you're right. No major or notable hospital would take on his risk. Which is why he's a relatively poorly paid doctor at a smaller hospital. He has prestigious reputation, but not a matching career.

Admittedly, the show isn't amazingly consistent with that. And being a small hospital doesn't really track with the number of mysterious cases that show up there. Oh well. Maybe they have the medical equivalent of the Hellmouth there?

House was Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in Princeton, New Jersey.

So..since it's Jersey...yes.