A Day in the Life of Dr. House

Doctors can pursue many career paths. Well, when you are a physician, it let you be your own boss. It offers you the opportunity to divide your work between treatment, research and instruction, in varying proportions. And lastly, you will work for a large corporation, which provides you with patients and handles most of the administrative and business tasks that physicians in private practice have to handle on their own just like what Dr. House is doing in House M.D. Want to look into a day in the life of a physician? Come on! Let us slip through House. House Season 8 Episode 11 is entitled Nobody’s Fault. What will be there on this episode? You better watch out!

Agreed, medicine is a very rewarding profession, but it is hard work. Doctors are often exhilarated when they know they have helped someone get well and devastated when they lose a patient. It is a job that can prey upon you physically and mentally. Since the average patient is not a doctor, physicians must not only be able to communicate difficult, often painful information to those in their care, but also they must learn how to interpret their patients’ needs. They must relate to their patients as people and not reduce them to just the illness that needs to be treated. One element of this is collaborating with their patients to determine the best course of treatment for them as individuals. This requires patience, empathy, and compassion. And compassion is absolutely necessary.

House Season 8 Episode 11: Nobody’s Fault. Here, when one of House’s team is injured during an encounter with a violent patient, Foreman’s mentor Dr. Walter Cofield reviews the incident and must sort out the truth from the embellishments. Oh, anguish! This is not an easy job as it is. Now I know that physicians must be very careful when they take the knife. Underneath their fine incisions stirs the culprit called life.