House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies

Book Preface

Dr. Gregory House, that brilliant pill – popping bastard, limps along the halls of Princeton – Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, knocking aside medical ethics with a wave of his cane. He tells us that everybody lies, that humanity is overrated, and that it ’ s the nature of medicine that you ’ re going to screw up. And one more thing: Read less, more TV! Yeah, House says that, too. But he wasn ’ t talking about this book . You really should read this book, the one you ’ re now holding in your hands. House would want you to.

But why should we listen to him? Isn ’ t he a jerk? Well, yes, but unlike the guy standing next to you reading the book on intelligent design, House is cool. House plays a mean guitar and a killer piano, and chicks think he ’ s sexy (it ’ s the blue eyes). He even had a pet rat named Steve McQueen — how cool is that? And one more thing: he ’ s brilliant. So who cares if he thinks that seizures are fun to watch but boring to diagnose? What ’ s not to love?