@@SadAss. to be fair if the show was from anyone else's perspective nobody would like him (i do, but only because i know he isnt a real person and this isnt actual medical practice)
The fact that all house kept repeating was “genetic” until they stopped and actually listened to what he was saying. He didn’t come to their house to sit with their son to overstep or anything. He wanted to see him in person so he knew whether or not it was likely passed on to the child. So he could save him from his brother’s fate
Takes 1 death to stop another death from happening, unfortunately. Doctors do have to be responsible and bring awareness to things even if it is the truth and how it can be passed down.
Yep hospital would fire him for legal liability. More people would die but you can't sure because doctor was mean. Actual adults would prefer house thorns and all.
And if they hadn't listened, this woman would've left her second husband for caring too much about their son's passing and looking too much like him. Rinse and repeat.
If it wasn't for the pain and grief from the father, the mother would have never know what caused the decease of his son, and also would've never know about the condition of her last son.
More like if house wasn't the way he is she never would have found out she's killing her children. House was the persistent one the dad and the mother walked away cause the mother was a dead beat and didn't give a s*** what killed her child
The way House still helps people when they slap him, punch him, grab him, and all out physically assault him is impressive. He is very callous on the outside but really is the most caring character on the show on the inside.
I think that some people with the softest hearts develop a gruff exterior to protect themselves. Otherwise, empathy for other people would overwhelm them.
dude literally acts like a dick but goes out of his way outside of work to find parents and find out issues which i have literally never seen a doctor do before
When it comes to children, he'll move heaven and Earth. He really only thinks adults are stupid, because he believes that if you're a grown adult you should know better even if you are mentally deficient, you have enough time in your life to try to figure something out. But with children, he believes that they didn't get a chance to do anything let alone learn. Their pure, and need to be helped so that way they actually live long enough to be able to make their own decisions and decide to not be stupid. It's a very honorable thing. There isn't a single goddamn thing on this planet that wouldn't help him from preventing a child if he could help it. He'll be beyond goddamned if he let that happen.
@@crimsonfox87fluxule62 "When it comes to children, he'll move heaven and Earth." One of my favorites was in season 2 with the girl with cancer, she doesn't have long but House solving it would afford her a year or so. It was just so sweet the way House was leading the surgery room during practice.
It's hard to hold an accent when yelling. Even the most skilled actors at accent mimicry will often slip while shouting. This is a pretty well known fact in the industry, you can sometimes hear it with Andrew Lincoln yelling as Rick Grimes too, and he basically lived in that accent on set instead of his own.
I like how the crypts scene had no background music until house speaks with his team. just the eerie feeling of being there, alone with a corpse. really adds more to the scene.
This is why you need to care about this if you're going to have more children. Genetic conditions exist!!! It reminds about the time parents were arrested because they thought they poisoned their child, but the mom was pregnant with a second child and the second child was diagnosed with the same genetic condition the first had which proved the parents innocent and got them released.
You can care about this all you want, but genetic testing is expensive, and hundreds of genetic diseases exist. People in certain ethnic groups prone to specific diseases (think Tay Sachs, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia) might want to do a test, but you can't just test away genetic risks.
Like Kathleen Folbigg (20 years jailed) until they found out she was telling the truth and she didn't unalived all her children it was a genetic condition, and I'm sure there's more jailed inocent mothers we'll never know.
@@paulrobinson3213 death of a child is an incredibly traumatic event, it sometimes leads to divorce as parents can't stop getting reminded of their dead child everytime they see each other. It's not disloyalty.
Dude, this represents the mom thoughts of "THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH MY CHILD!" until they get slapped with it in the face that there is something wrong
House may be a brilliant curmudgeon, but whenever kids are involved he fights harder to save them, even from the stupidity of their parents, and is more solemn when concerning their mortal coils . I don’t know if its bc as kids they get a pass for being stupid and lying, bc he has some hope that some of them will grow out of it, or if its their innocence that makes House have a soft spot. Whatever the reason, it’s refreshing to see his humanity, and twice as sad knowing that for whatever reason he refuses to be so considerate with the vast majority of adults.
He acts different with kids because with kids he knows that they lied because they have been conditioned by adults to lie - so they might lie only for themselves not because they are putting on a facade. House doesn't mind lies (he lies all the time) what bugs him about people is the pretentiousness and the bullshitting. House lies to avoid headaches not because he tries to conceal his persona. Ironically he is a bit of a drama queen because he goes out of his way when he sees someone bullshitting in his environments and teaches them a lesson in lies and manipulation.
@@amauriherrera6022your both wrong, it’s not because kids lie, it’s parents do and he has seen so many parents put their children in danger because “They know better” kids don’t know how to lie unless they lived in fear their whole life or they were taught it, PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME KIDS LIE, because they want to. (I capitalized it so the message gets across and if you thought I was trying to be mean I apologize.) (House also has a soft spot for kids)
"You're lying" lady no offense but the guy is a doctor who went out of his way to examine your childs corpse just to check if there was a condition in the first place.
@@UncleHaul John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, about the devil and the Fall. I believe they visit the underworld in that book, so Milton is a good guide to the graveyard. Or it's just a coincidence.
Sorry for the impending ramble, this clip was kind of cathartic for me: My son died because of an unknown condition in utero. We had a series of tests done, finally having his genome along with my husband and I fully mapped out. He had a spontaneous genetic mutation with such a rare combination of syndromes and physical symptoms that he was the first person with all 3 things in his combination of diagnoses. Having a diagnosis can sometimes be a relief, and other times it’s a heartbreaking burden. My husband and I have worked hard and gone to tons of group, individual, and couples therapy to make sure we grieve our own way and still have space for each other’s unique grief process. It’s really common for loss parents to split up, and we worked hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. Our son would be 14 months old if he had made it to term, and his baby sister is 4 months old. Loss parents may not be explicit about it, but children following a loss are not a replacement like they make it seem in some shows that tackle child and infant loss.
Such wise words, have also walked a similar path, 30 years ago. Following the still birth of a twin. Absolutely right when you say another pregnancy is not the answer, I knew that and never did. Brave wise words from someone who clearly knows.
Doctor House wasn't wrong about that, a graveyard caretaker taking bribes to let possible grave robbers inside the graves, then asking him to be respectful lol technically it's more disrespectful of the graveyard caretaker to accept bribes and let a complete stranger inside the graves. Lol
To be fair we didn't see the conversation about the bribe, I can understand how the guy, would accept "Hey, I need to exhume this child in order to tell what killed him, I have the fathers permission but not the divorced mothers." It's one thing to accept the bribe on those grounds, and another to accept it on the grounds of "Yeah I want to rip the kids legs off lol" Of course if he was actually moral the bribe wouldn't be necessary.
Wouldn't be surprising. It wasn't that long ago in history when medical students and doctors became grave robbers to secure corpses for study. I'm sure there were a few caretakers bribed back then.
Interesting how, at least through these clips, there were never really any insults or witty quips from House.. he treated this with a level of seriousness and empathy that I didn't really expect.
@@michaelklog What drives him is the mystery of the unknown. He hates clinic duty because he can't stand doing the same diagnosis set day in and day out. Unusual diseases, health conditions, disorders, those are puzzles he can lose himself in. That's why he's so picky with his team, why he tests them to see if they're actually able to keep up with him and his madness. If they can't, they're liabilities, or worse, they're useless.
Did you not watch the clip? Her coping mechanism was to just bury and ignore the feelings. Thinking about "digging" up the dead body is a reminder to her she didn't want but evidently did need
@@litrick5471 Did _you_ not watch the clip? That was entirely unknown when the guy said that. House didn't find that out until he went and actually talked to her.
put it this way: the son has been dead for years. ofc the couple wouldnt know this unless House directly states it to them, but House literally only took this case because he was fascinated. no one caught on to what the kid had and he unfortunately died because of it, but he believed he could figure it out. he had no real reason to exhume the body, plus, it's as others have said, this would also be bringing up old scars of tragically losing her child. at the end of the day, it's a good thing House DID take this case since it turns out her second son had what his brother had, but, at the end of the day, in her eyes (and the ex knew this) she saw no reason to bring all this back up again. she wanted to push the tragedy aside, bury those emotions and focus on moving on
Unfortunately, they're only people. Diseases are hard to deduce, even to a trained eye. A lot of times the only sources you have for information are the patients' word and visual examination. Even then, if something doesn't click in the doctor's head correctly, if a single thing is overlooked, or if confirmation bias becomes a factor, it's all too easy to misdiagnose. Medical Science is horrendously complex. Doctors can only do so much.
It is sad to lose a child. It is even sadder for a grieving parent if the other one hates them for the child's death, and so with the death of the child comes the death of the marriage altogether. Its like the only thing that held the marriage together was the child, not their love for each other. It is really terrible that grief can kill a marriage, and kill any love. So in her grief, the mother abandoned her ex husband and went on to marry another guy who looked different from her dead kid. Nice coping mechanism. The minute her kid died, so did her love for her husband.
Very common thing that occurs. It's not that their love dies- it's that it's too hard to continue being around someone who constantly reminds you of your dead kid. Most families never recover and divorce is usually very prevalent in this type of situation. It's awful, but it doesn't make the people awful.
@@feodorawicked5014 "In sickness and and in health, till death do you part" that is the oath you swear. Doesn't matter what it is, you work through it.
Before my friend had her baby, her and her husband did genetic testing to make sure that they wouldn't pass anything harmful onto their baby without knowing. I think it's worth doing.
Honestly have to be heartless to leave the man of your son who you lost. What pain and complete darkness...loneliness she left him in. Only to get right up and do the same thing with another man and child.... That's just... That's so cold. I know loss, I do, but inflicting it on others knowingly i could not do. She made him lose a wife and son...couldn't even be his friend.. I..ouch.
@@briancrawford8751 this is true! But leaving your partner into the void is another story. Breaking up happens, but abandonment after loss is cruel. She didn't just leave him, she cut him off wouldn't look at or speak to him. This is what I was speaking on.
@@corvidaemoon8744 Yeah, that is horrible. I've never had that particular problem, but I've seen it happen. When stressed, people do things they might not otherwise do, but it's still a dick move.
She was hurting a lot too. She left because looking at her husband's eyes was too painful for her. I'm not condoning that she left, nor condemning it. I've felt loss too. My cat, my grandmother, and now recently a miscarriage. It hurts. A lot. I can't blame someone for wanting to escape that pain. And I refuse to condone nor condem it because I don't know how I'll react to something like that. I'd like to think I would grow closer to my beloved husband, like I have after the miscarriage, but I don't know. Hopefully, I'll never know.
house: its genetic famiy: hes not lke that house: genetic! your father has the gene and you passed it as well most people dont understand that having gene doesnt mean you will suffer from it. it mean it can be passed on.
Especially if it is X-linked. Then it will manifest in men more than women. The mother, with one healthy X chromosome, would only be a carrier but not symptomatic, but has a 50% chance of giving birth to a boy that does have it. Genetic screening is important, if you suspect you have a hereditary genetic illness. You can have IVF treatment that screens the zygotes for the gene, so you never pass on the problematic chromosome.
I can attest to these statements having been diagnosed Hemochromatosis a few years ago. My father is a carrier and passed it on to me. which means I have to go in for phlebotomies and watch Iron consumption. Most genetic illnesses are treatable.
I wonder how such narcissistic self centred evil people get to have kids while some of the wonderful people who are great potential parents struggle to concieve
@@sairamr6886She's literally grieving her son's death, and here you are calling her a narcissist for doing a very common coping method after going through one of the worst possible experiences.
This is a very normal coping mechanism within families that loose children. Most parents end up splitting because of the death. She doesn't 'need to get over herself', she needs to heal. It sucks, but the fact is most families never recover from deaths like these.
Lol, I'm with House on that jumpscare! I didn't even get scared from the sudden phone ring, I got scared when he dropped the metal thing! It was so loud and sudden!!
Between the mom that wants to forget about her first child and doesn’t even bother crying for him or wanting to know how he died and the dad that rushes in to punch or physically assault someone before they can offer any explanation those parents are serious assholes. Not to mention the mom would’ve gotten her second son killed.
@@babyvia6712It makes them both assholes. The women refuses help and knowledge that could save the lives of her child/children out of ego and spite. Frankly with how despicably she treated the situation she should have been left without the knowledge and forced to endure the condition in her family. As for the man, he runs out of the house and the first thing he does is try and pick a fight, and while that's not entirely bad because I'm real life you would want to defend your loved ones in the event someone tries to harass them, House and the ex showed zero signs of aggression and yet they were still treated like home invaders before even asking what was going on.
@@theonemanarmy2473 First, House and Co. were treated like home invaders…because they were home invaders. They weren’t invited and they were poking around someone else’s kid. Second, the woman who didn’t cry wasn’t an asshole because she didn’t cry. She didn’t have to cry, that’s not a law. Some people don’t cry. It’s okay that she mourned in her own way. It doesn’t mean she didn’t miss her son. She didn’t “refuse knowledge”, she didn’t know that House was correct. All she knew was that this man was standing on her lawn, accosting her family. Neither of these people are assholes.
@@babyvia6712 except your forgetting the multiple attempts made by house to contact and give vital, life saving information to this women who blatantly refused to just sit and absorb information for more the 10 seconds. Considering her treatment of others who were trying to do nothing but help unconditionally, as well as a blatant lack of recognized remorse or empathy for the loss of her first son, she should be considered psychopathic and be refused any help whatsoever... Or better yet, be charged for gross negligence of a dependent and subsequently punished.
Her refusal to acknowledge and actually *feel* those emotions is what makes her weak. Even wild, non sapient predators show sorrow for their dead children.
People handle grief differently. She broke down right after this clip. Try to have a bit more compassion. You never know how people are dealing with trauma.
@redbarrelentertainment9900 Wow, it's almost like grief is a thing. The honest fact is that a lot of families that experience the deaths of young children end up splitting. The death of a kid is very impactful to a family.
You could tell that the mother was neurotic because she refused to believe what House was telling her until he pulled the instrument out of his pocket and tapped it against his head to make the sound as well as yelling "genetic!" at them. Yes, I understand the need to grieve, BUT, as a mother, you do NOT walk out or walk away from your ex-husband just because his son "looks like his father" more than he would look like his mother. But at the end of the day, she was the one to say "I don't care about how he died!", moving on and getting a new husband.
For real! Like she kept saying that she didn't care?! What type of mother is not gonna wanna know how her son died. Also looking how she copes with loss, my guess she woulda broken up with the new husband , and hook up with a new guy, push a baby and well cycle would continued.
I understand she didn't want to show weakness and move on but her denial and heartlessness of her son was disgusting. Cudos to house for being uncharacteristically kind
@@babyvia6712 no, her carelessness for her son was disgusting. I get people cope differently but that doesn't mean she needs to act like her son didn't exist. Even when it was found out she gave her sons the issues she instead was in denial and tried to ignore it. She's not just grieving, she has other problems in her head that need to be checked. Please read my post to what I mean and the context of the video. The woman had no heart and tried to deny her child that's disgusting
@@sammiepittman3130 it's one thing to be sad and grieve it's another to deny your child existed at all. That's why she's heartless. She didn't show any signs she cared for her dead child, not just withholding emotion but straight not having any emotion period
Ok so I am asking genuinely without malice but is it normal for some people to move on that quickly from a child’s death or is that just episode drama? All the stories that I have heard they never move on as fast as that so I was just curious if there r humans out there like that
Unfortunately, probably yes. There are many people out there who are apathetic. but it doesn't always mean they don't love. it's more like how they 'react', in my view. this may not be a great example, but I will not cry if my parents die. I was adopted and there is a lot of history and I'm still trying to deal with some personal PTSD at 31, and while I KNOW they are good people, I often believe they just weren't the parents for me. We live peacefully now and I have decided when I move out, I am going to 'slowly' cut them out of my life to have my own, but if they die, I most likely wont care. it doesn't mean i don't care for them at all. I know that may not be the best example and a relationship between the parent and child is very different from the parents view, but I would imagine so. Everyone has their own demons and (not necessarily this episode) but some parents see their own fault in their children or have some secret that the child reminds them of and losing that child for whatever reason can make them feel better. it totally sucks and completely unfair to the child, but yes, there are people out there like that. I didn't watch the episode but let's assume the couple split because of the child's death. if she didn't care about the son's death, it's probably because she held resentment towards the husband and losing the child helped her move on. Like I said, I didn't watch the episode but that's just an example. I did read the episode bio and it turns out she later cries and admits she misses the son. So yeah, in my view, apathy isn't always 'not caring', it's more of 'reacting'. I hope that helped a little
'Moving on' after losing a child is complex. Society has expectations, there are obligations to others, the fact that is can be easier to lock it away for awhile, and so much more. Grief is very individual and a personal journey. A person can seem fine and even uncaring then fall apart when alone or when they feel safe.
@@amandasnider2644 They didn't include the last part of this scene, House and the husband kind of step away, and the mother and her ex-husband started crying looking at each other, she finally added "I miss him too". She was definitely grieving, but she coped trying to ignore that she was. There is always someone holding themselves together in a traumatic event, basically someone has to, if one parent is falling apart it makes sense that the other takes the roll as the stronger one.
It all depends on the environment that the person (I find the word "remains" here too clinical) is buried in and the type of embalming fluid used. By environment, I mean humidity, temperature, if in the ground-soil composition, water composition (if buried in an area that floods regularly) and more all play a vital role in the speed at which a body decompses.
@@SapphirasMama I was about to say the same thing, including some anecdotes involving the moving of a historic cemetery when I was younger and the state of the corpses. (Fun facts to horrify your friends: an infant's skeleton can crystalize in a high limestone environment!) Though I will say that IRL, that kid would have been significantly more decomposed just based on age of corpse and the presumed weather conditions of New Jersey, even with a crypt burial, and probably a bit more juicy. But for the sake of TV drama, I get why they went with something a bit less icky.
Thats what i loved about house he wasnt afraid to take risks in order to save those in need even if it wasnt the patient i hated the last few seasons b/e i believed they moved away feom that point and it just got worse
I feel like all men has an instinct of when someone lack's of fear in their eyes when as he stands his ground not defending himself as he's getting pushed back which suddenly gets triggered and makes any man stop and hear them out
There’s very few House episodes that make you kinda sad. This was one of the hardest hitting ones because of the way the child’s death wrecked the family (especially the father). Even knowing the cause of death won’t bring closure.
This is so cold. I know everyone realizes that they have to force the memories to the back of their mind in order to function for the remaining family members, but how is not shedding a tear at your son's funeral a "coping mechanism"? She never had the motherly gene in the first place.
Imagine if they announced there were just four additional episodes that they filmed in season two that they never aired. But they were releasing them after all these years
GENETIC in perfect British accent XD He has a very convincing American accent but sometimes his British accent shines through. Hugh Laurie is awesome though :) House MD was awesome
