Dr. Gregory House

Dr. Gregory House is an unconventional, misanthropic, cynical medical genius who, despite his dependence on pain medication, successfully leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey. Dr. Gregory House, (almost universally referred to as House and rarely as Greg) is a Board Certified Diagnostician with a double specialty of Infectious Disease and Nephrology. He went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland where he was in the pre-med program, maintaining an excellent GPA and eventually getting a perfect score on his MCAT. Before he went to med school, he thought about getting a Ph.D. in physics due to his desire to research dark matter. He obtained admission to Johns Hopkins Medical School under Brightman and Gilmar, and was one of their best students, eventually becoming the favorite to obtain a prestigious internship at the Mayo Clinic. House suffered an infarction in his leg while playing golf. Hs was suffering from muscle death, the leg was in such a bad state that amputation was the recommended course of action. However, he rejected the suggestion and instead suggested that he undergo a procedure to bypass circulation around the dead muscle. The result was intense pain during the healing process, with the muscle death leading to cardiac arrest, House was then put into a chemically induced coma. Although this most likely saved House's life, it left him with permanent intense pain in his right leg. This is why he always uses his cane. House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients' illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). His only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology.