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A friend of mine who works as a nurse once told me that I was insane if I thought House was an ethical person. She has a point. House avoids his patients and is unfailingly rude to them when he does see them. He continually torments his only friend, abuses his subordinates, and defies all authorities. And just for good measure, every few episodes someone reminds him (and us) that he has violated every ethical guideline in the book. Nevertheless, I’m convinced that House is one of the few properly ethical characters on TV today. Obviously I don’t mean “ethical” in the sense of being a generally good person, but rather in the sense of being devoted to a single unswerving principle: in House’s case, the quest for truth.
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