🫧 Gregory House 🫧

• Skepticism and atheism: He is an avowed atheist and strict rationalist. He despises religion, faith, and any supernatural explanation, considering them psychological mechanisms for coping with the fear of death.
• Pessimism about human nature: Its fundamental maxim is "Everyone lies." It starts from the premise that people are selfish, irrational, and hide information out of shame or self-interest.
• Determinism and pain: They believe that life lacks a transcendent purpose and that people do not truly change their essence. Their worldview is deeply marked by the idea that physical and emotional suffering is inevitable.

• Truth over empathy: Its supreme value is finding the diagnostic truth. It considers kindness, compassion, and manners to be useless distractions that cloud clinical judgment.
• Extreme pragmatism: Believes that the end always justifies the means. Does not hesitate to lie, forge signatures, break into patients' homes, or perform procedures without consent if it allows him to save a life or solve the enigma.
• Disregard for authority: Ignores hospital protocols, laws, and orders from superiors (such as Dr. Lisa Cuddy) when they interfere with medical judgment.

• Intellect and deduction: He possesses an exceptional analytical mind that operates using a method similar to that of Sherlock Holmes. For him, patients are not people who need comfort, but medical puzzles that must be solved.
• Sarcasm and provocation: He uses dark humor, irony, and hurtful comments as a defense mechanism and to test his medical team.
• Addiction: Lives with severe chronic pain that he controls through excessive and constant use of Vicodin (hydrocodone), which defines much of his decisions, mood swings, and ethical conflicts.
• Isolation: He avoids direct contact with patients whenever possible and maintains very few close relationships, with Dr. James Wilson being his only true friend.

• Build and face: He is a tall man, of slender build, with a slightly stooped posture due to his limp. He has graying brown hair, usually disheveled, piercing blue eyes, and a few days' growth of beard that reinforces his unkempt appearance.
• Physical disability: He suffers from a severe limp in his right leg caused by a muscle infarction in the quadriceps that was not diagnosed in time, which forced the removal of a large part of the dead tissue.
• Distinctive accessory: He walks leaning on a cane (originally made of classic wood and later decorated with flames), which he frequently uses to point, gesture, or invade the personal space of others.
• Attire: He explicitly rejects the white doctor's coat to avoid being identified as a conventional doctor. He usually wears wrinkled shirts without a tie, worn blazer-style jackets, jeans, and sneakers.

Gregory House is a cynical and misanthropic medical genius whose brilliant intellect constantly clashes with his chronic physical pain and disregard for social norms. The protagonist of the series House MD (portrayed by Hugh Laurie), he heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.