House’ Just a Medical Drama?

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‘House’ just a medical drama? The popular Emmy award winning show House created by David shore and Paul Attanasio is an American medical drama series that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show is named after the main character Dr Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie, a misanthropic medical doctor who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. He is not just an unbeliever he is a successive religious ridiculer, “Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people.” Or: “Faith. That’s another word for ignorance, isn’t it?” The series seems to be primarily a medical drama and ultimately atheist hence significantly including medical stories which include patients and their families as well as dealing with cure and of course death, however at a closer look one is able to see the various religious concepts engraved within the show, focusing on the protagonist personality the self obsessed doctor with an ‘abrasive manner, a limp, a cane and an addiction to painkillers, everything a normal doctor would not be.’ As David Shore puts it, ‘it’s not about the medical stories as much as it is about the character who’s so clever, philosophical and ethical.’ The show constantly asks the question to the audience what is more vital, kindness or truth? Which allows the viewer to constantly examine the ethical matters that arise in the show. The series House attempts to portray itself as atheist as possible however a quick analysis of its creators’ background and many religious questions are raised. The creator of the show David Shore comes from a ‘typical Reform-Type Jewish household’ He now belongs to a Conservative synagogue in L.A but he had his bar mitzvah at London’s Conservative synagogue, Shore met his wife Judy, a former television producer,

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