Better still is something like TSO (pig whipworm), which cannot colonize humans, but induces a response similar to Necator and Strongyloides. Unfortunately, the patient must continue to consume eggs for as long as is necessary to manage disease.

The sanctity of life??? This means you enable a mass murderer to get better so he can go back to defiling the sanctity of life thousands of times over? This sounds more like the criminals’ rights element in society pushing its so-called morality, than an argument for more humanity on the earth.

It’s like the religious types who defend the rights of the perpetrators and evil doers by saying God gives everyone free will, and in so doing blind themselves to the fact that the victims had no rights to THEIR OWN free will. I mean how many victims out there willed to be abused, raped, murdered, for crying out loud?

Horribly twisted reasoning all around, seems to me. With the world in such bad shape, I’d say it’s time to change our thinking, and start putting society and the good of others ahead of the “rights” of the deviant individual who acts to the contrary.

If you want to be disturbed about something, be disturbed about the view that females must have a child to feel complete or successful.

And I think it is kind of humorous that the character believes it is House who has issues when she’s the one without a relationship all this time, yet she supposedly has none of the mental or control issues, which she believes House to have.

I’m just relieved some of the endless and heavy handed psychoanalyzing of every character by every other character has been toned down. So much so that if they want to pretend Cameron is acting out of character, despite her past actions, I’m almost willing to forgive and forget because I don’t want it explored.

On the subject of House being a genius – I think the writers have said somewhere that House is modeled on another fictional genius – Sherlock Holmes.

Of course Sherlock Holmes took cocaine, played the violin and just sat in a chair when he had no interesting cases – but he also carried out research into topics such as identifying cigar ash, identifying the soils of different parts of England, coal tar derivatives etc. AND published the results in numerous monographs. Conan Doyle mentions these things to explain how Holmes has the edge on the police (in addition to being a genius!).

While House could be reading the literature, publishing, etc. off camera it is a little disappointing that they never seem to show him doing it. Have they ever shown him leafing through a journal or book when thinking about a tough case (or at least looking at it on the web like people do nowadays)?

In spite of all that I am prepared to accept the show’s portrayal of House as a genius – even if it is the opposite of the genius people that @Kerrie works with.

I also recall an episode where House remembers a low caste Japanese doctor called in to diagnose him when everyone else is stumped. He said something like “they kept him because he was always right”.

I think this is the core of House – he has to keep on being right because otherwise he will not have a reason to exist (which is the same as saying that people will not have a reason to tolerate him). He pushes the limit of what people will tolerate just to find out what those limits are.

Also, Chase seemed to take the opposite position in relation to the one he previously had. He admitted looking around every once in a while because he’s “a guy”. Assuming that “look around” means that he feels tempted to break his commitment to monogamous relationship, one could wonder whether he has had a change of heart too or does he just fall in love with all those pretty girls he sees around?