Oh yeah, I don't mean to imply that he *only* cares about the puzzle - although that is what he'd like people to think. Especially in the first three years he did form attachements to some of the patients and clearly cared about them. He was the sort of doctor who would do *anything* for his patients.
But I think in the case of Esther tweleve (or whatever it was) years later he only remembers that he failed her, failed to find the solution. Whereas Wilson would remember that she was a grandmother who left seventeen grandchildren, two dogs, a fish and a bird behind, and never got to make that trip to Paris that she always wanted. House has the file in his drawer, Wilson would have the jumper she knit for him while she was dying.
Houses failures are also in diagnosis whereas Wilson's are in treatment which might also illustrate the difference between them. House wants to find out why people are sick, Wilson wants to cure them once he knows why they're sick. Wilson's own illness is in that way a turn around for House who has never cared much about treatment before. Now he has nothing to diagnose he has to focus on the treatment.
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Oh yeah, I don't mean to imply that he *only* cares about the puzzle - although that is what he'd like people to think. Especially in the first three years he did form attachements to some of the patients and clearly cared about them. He was the sort of doctor who would do *anything* for his patients.
But I think in the case of Esther tweleve (or whatever it was) years later he only remembers that he failed her, failed to find the solution. Whereas Wilson would remember that she was a grandmother who left seventeen grandchildren, two dogs, a fish and a bird behind, and never got to make that trip to Paris that she always wanted. House has the file in his drawer, Wilson would have the jumper she knit for him while she was dying.
Houses failures are also in diagnosis whereas Wilson's are in treatment which might also illustrate the difference between them. House wants to find out why people are sick, Wilson wants to cure them once he knows why they're sick. Wilson's own illness is in that way a turn around for House who has never cared much about treatment before. Now he has nothing to diagnose he has to focus on the treatment.