All of the House MD writing is above par. When it is weak and off-track and off-character it is still engaging. This episode seemed to concentrate on the philosophy of "if the Doc is too emotionally engaged, they can't be objective in their treatment."...which is fine. But this is a fall-back position for over half of the House episodes. It seems to be beaten to death. This ep offered nothing new in the discussion and was just a vehicle for sparring between Cuddy and House. And the sub-plot of the black patient that was charging racism in the medicine that Foreman prescribed - ultimately calling Foreman an Oreo, and that white people had been lying to him for years - then House prescribing him the same medicine but telling the patient that it was the 'white' version just to get him to take it -- ridiculous beyond belief. Foreman then lands with both feet on House saying that he did lie and it was white people, blah, blah, blah. House lies to everyone to get what he wants done. There was no difference here. The writers wrote this up as though it made some sort of point. The only point they made is that they have not paid attention to their own show.
Review of Humpty Dumpty
