Nobody's Fault | House M.D. 

that's called character.

@@ashishjindal6382 you mean as in integrity?

@@sowhat... yes

Btw,smart thing to call the person who can get you fired

@@itsnotukulele9864 btw it’s a show in tv anything can happen like a last minute save so house wouldn’t get fired like exactly what happened in the video

I would say it's a bit of both. He knows he's right and wants others to know that too, not because of a sob story, but because it's the truth, because he IS a brilliant doctor with unconventional ways that work. However, he also knows he's (at least partially) at fault for setting up that incident in the first place, and needs to be punished for it.

@@AzureKyle Problem is that all of the three initial answers were wrong. If House had come up with the right diagnosis sooner the incident would not have happened in the first place. But maybe he liked the thought of 3 different theories, one test so much, he stopped looking for a fourth possibility. That would mean House was so caught up in his mind games, that it had hampered his judgement. If House realise this then by his own logic he did not operate how he should have and was to blame.

@@barthoving2053 You must be new. Three or more theories before the correct one is the norm to this show. The mentality House always had was to fully commit to the most likely correct theory until it is evident that it is not correct, or it works. The mind games are not new, and neither is House's ability to process cases effectively in parallel. His epiphany happens in the middle of a very important situation for him, when his freedom is at stake and he still walks out because, answer in hand, he commits to it and needs to see it through. The only time House was ever really distracted was when he was on Methadone.

Process of elimination was utilized, isn't that normal

@@kitpitre Usually, doctors don't test multiple theories at once.

Every complement said to him and he's like: I think we've heard enough.

@@BillySummers24 *compliment

xD nice one raphtalia

Thats what she said

*we

It wasn't House's fault to begin with. Taub said it perfectly in this episode. They knew that the guy was unstable and potentially psychotic... but he still chose to go near him with a scalpel, without him being restrained, against House's orders.

@@AtotehZ If he was any other doctor this could be true, but it was House, the same House that always encourage their employees to defy him, and yes, Chase did what he did, but that is what House have teached them, "fight for what you belive" and that kind of enviroment is what lead to this outcome, even House know this and that is why he apologieze at the end of the episode.

@@PunkySlush yes, its my second language and I haven't been practicing so I'm sorry if what I said doesn't make sense.

@@megalodon2831 no need for apologies the only word that needs to be changed is teached, to taught. otherwise it makes perfect sense. and yes house intentionally set a competitive environment so that he could have multiple points of view in order for his methods to work. while such a thing is terrible if you want a cohesive team, house wasnt making a team but a tool for him to use to do his job, if the "wetware" happened to learn a thing or two or not at all was not his his concern.

@@megalodon2831 aw there’s no need to apologize for that 🥺

Thank you we didn't notice

how tf did you notice that easter egg bro. You must be a genius

Nah, I just happened to catch it. But I do appreciate the compliment.

@@anteapic8527 be nice. Comment policeman.

@@PassiveDissimulation Shut up comment comment policeman.

He wanted to be punished for what happened to Chase because he DOES care.

@@thegatorhator6822 that's definitely possible and I am very much inclined to agree

I don't think this was due to feeling any guilt or insecurity. This man was here to determine fault. Chase got stabbed in the heart by a patient. There are people at fault here, that doesn't "just happen". Whether it's all of them or the patient, who knows, but somebody or a group was at fault. A weapon was brought into the hands of a room of a patient with a potential psychotic reaction - who had previously had a psychotic reaction enough to warrant the protection. House wanted the answer, like he always wanted the answer. Cofield had all the data, all the notes, all the files, all the testimony - and he exhaustively examined the situation from every angle. House doesn't have that information or that management training. House can't determine this answer because he's not objective - it's not his job. Cofield withheld judgment. Who was at fault here? Foreman was at fault. The methods in which House operates are under his management and it is tolerated. Walter Cofield should have condemned House's practice - any ethics committee could list his unsafe violations just recorded on those notes. A spring loaded confetti bomb inside a licensed medication for pain in a hospital, where surgery's happen, many of which House goes into? Cofield held back because of his relationship with Foreman. It was Foreman who brought him in hoping he'd get leniency - and he did - when really Foreman should've been condemned for allowing these practices in the first place. House and his team - individual citations and reprimands for grievances. It's these same practices that end up destroying an MRI at the hospital which leads to House being ordered back to prison. Had Cofield intervened here and enforced discipline, however he could have, he might've deterred that fate. He might've stopped that MRI from exploding. Cofield was no doubt capable, his interviews telling, and their accounts all yielded problems worthy of scrutiny. House isn't doing this out of guilt or insecurity. This man Cofield has been selected to determine fault - and he isn't doing it. The math here is easy, there's a dozen roads he could've taken, a dozen faults identified, a dozen regulations cited... some of which might not have put House in jail but fixed these issues. These are administrative issues and saving patients does not justify their actions retroactively. House didn't want to be punished because he felt he did something wrong. He wanted to know what was done wrong by a committee designed to correct this behavior. Sure, he might've existentially benefited from the answer, but this didn't come from there. House's worst, and best, quality is an intolerance of ignorance. Cofield chose ignorance and that lights House right up. If he could he'd dissect that file for an hour with an autopsy as rigorous as could possibly be done to find this answer... if he didn't know already that Cofield's methods aren't as exhaustive as his interrogation techniques. This is why in the subsequent scene, he immediately goes to Chase - the only person who witnessed all of it, and has a grievance to cite and the insight on the patient who stabbed him. House admits he was at fault - though this doesn't exonerate Foreman. It's just House's belief he's at fault, and he is at fault, since he's been manipulating Foreman for years... but he goes to Chase because he doesn't know. Chase being the closest doctor to House in almost every way, he goes to the only other person who had the means of determining the truth. Even this acquittal is in direct result of his manipulation of Foreman, who chose a doctor incapable of completing a judgment. Foreman very likely knew this wouldn't come back on him. It isn't a feeling of guilt - it's an actual intellectual suspicion of guilt, but worse, an absolute need to determine guilt. When House drove a car into Cuddy's house - he didn't feel guilty or insecure at all. He went to a nice beach and drank. He divides his team and encourages them to break rules, break protocol and advocate for their treatments risking their own lives. That's unethical. He's never presumed to operate otherwise - and in this specific instance he induced a psychotic episode in a patient and did not secure them in any way - a fault of not attending his patient. No security measures were put in place - forget chase, this man could've gotten up and stabbed half the hospital if he chose to. Foreman once nearly fell victim to this same situation and ended up in a dangerous quarantine for similar reasons. House has faults - but pursuing the truth is one much higher than potential emotional reactions. If you want to go after him, search for something greater than emotional pettiness. House's greatest fault is an inability to use that enlightenment to any meaningful end. Here Chase is in pain and House ignores it to get an answer - and has a rare opportunity to share his years long rehabilitation efforts with Chase. Instead he pursues answers to inane questions instead of saying, "It's my fault" and quitting immediately. House should not be in a position of power and he knows it - and his hypocrisy is destroying him in that rabid pursuit of truth. This is why the last line of the show is him proclaiming, "Cancer's boring"... because relinquishing that search gives him the opportunity to actually pursue meaningful truths rather than simply finding value in finding the truth. Gotta punch higher with House, he's a brilliant character - and I'm not talking about his intelligence. Just because he has emotions doesn't mean they corrupt his integrity. His corruption is much loftier than an emotional response. It's an intellectual addiction. Way more penetrating. "The need to be right". It's why his leg perpetually bothers him - a medical puzzle in which there's no answer, an endless pursuit in which to lose his mind in attempting to solve. That's just to list one contender, we could circle several others, House is not beyond reproach in any way. I'm not defending him against reproach at all, he's fraught with flaws that would objectively get him fired in almost any medical field. It just belittles his overall ethos entirely to relegate him to a set of emotional constructs when he has more objective and known obsessions in which to point to. But if you want to find his very worst fault... it runs much deeper. I'm not gonna claim to identify it, but if you take that all, and contrast it with "Everybody Lies"... there's a misanthropic vision there potentially just as dangerous as his obsession. A sincere disbelief in his fellow humans ability to create, perceive, or interpret the truth - and in himself. Everybody is everybody after all. Take your pick - both that reckless pursuit of inane truths and misanthropic vision... both way worse qualities. But hey - those are just two. He's a walking talking snowball of contradictions to pick from. I'm just throwing darts at obvious suspects.

Pretty much everyone I know and will ever meet.

@@BigMac8000 Where's the tl;dr?

And Grey's Anatomy will be the 2nd best followed by The Good Doctor🎉🎉

It's the truth!

House is pretty good But I’m guessing u haven’t seen ER

Only if the last season was good

Big facts

What did House actually do wrong though? Based on these clips it seems like the attack was Chase's fault for trying to perform an unauthorized sample collection involving a scalpel.

@@every116 It's because of the "environment" that house has cultivated for his workers that leads to them being willing to take risks or go against what they are told to do. Reason White House is under trial in the first place

Recall Foreman when the team was split up. He went to a new hospital, gained a possession like House's, and then he pulled a House. He was fired for it, and no other hospital would dare hire him because they don't want a House. House does create more Houses in the people he gets close to. Even Cuddy was affected by him. So when it finally came to result in one of those people getting hurt, House was ready to be punished for it while maintaining his usual attitude.

It wasn't that. It was because he knew he would've gone to prison if that guy had stuck to his guns, but he didn't he changed his mind because of his emotions not his reasoning. House was responsible for fostering that environment, but for the right reasons. =he did the right thing which dosen't mean that he's not responsible for chase being stabbed. Had the guy done "the right thing" from his view be would've followed through regardless oh House being brilliant.

Why does he do wrong things then?

I think they landed at the wrong conclusion. Chase was at fault. Not that I want him fired for it, but he definitely was the person who is to blame for things escalating.

@@AtotehZ their logic was that chase taking it upon himself to escalate without consultation is a result of years of enabling by house

All except the ending. They screwed that one up.

Yes! I watched the full episode recdently and the storytelling craft is just incredible! One of the ten best, or possibly five best.

Good things usually happen, bad things sometimes happen. His enabling is what makes those good things happen my guy @@delirioususer9668

If someone cant pick that up then they werent paying attention at all. Almost every ( if not every ) episode Wilson or somebody else says that House always cares. He calls Wilson rationalization man but fact of the matter is Wilson is always right calling out the real rational reason why House did something. House always deflects when giving a reason, but as i said almost every episode someone calls out House's bullshit and reveals he cares, he is just unable ( or rather unwilling ) to show it in a not tough love way.

People don't pick up on that? I feel like the show kinda beats you over the head with that point.

I remember the ep where Foreman's like teacher during his residence or something? Came over with one of his patient and offer Foreman a job. He talk to Chase and Camaron about how he wanted house to care. Then later in the ep House was like "He think you do your job and what happens happens. But I think what we do matters. 'He sleeps better at night, he shouldn't'' And really hit to Foreman which of them really cares.

Literally 99% of the fandoms picks up on that.

Like Cuddy did!!

well it was pretty clear once he said that he was going to suspend him

"He wasn't the nicest doctor I've ever met..." House: "Well, I think we've heard enough..."

Cant believe we watched the same video

It's not a ''tiny'' moment, and it doesn't stand out to you alone. It was there on purpose, it wasn't subtle, and it did its purpose.

100%, the thing is the reason why he made that decision. The environment was competitive, and Chase had incentive to be right about his theory and prove it. It’s his fault 100% but House is also at fault for creating an environment where that sort of irrational/ careless behavior is the norm.

@@zachgiovannelli2626 well it is House's fault, but not because it's a "competetive" environment. House haven't raised athletes, he was raising independant and efficent doctors. In his own words these 3 (or 4 or 5) are there not to do his bidding but to make sure House doesn't make a mistake. Instead of solving each case and gathering a flock of subservient sheep that'll do everything he wants he males each and every team member an individual. Half of the time in these episodes is active training in independant, nonconventional and EFFICENT thinking. It isn't a competition to prove something to others, it's training in being right and stubborn to act on said belief.

Any other revelations you have for a decade old show?

The camera panned Chase actually stabbed himself.

But house wants to be at fault, and here is the thing: the other doctors are not his children for him to keep protecting them from their respponsabilities

And for that reason, this just became my new favorite House scene.

I think it's less about his perceived guilt but more about logic and honesty. House can accept the punishment, can respect those he disagrees with - but he can't respect those who can't stick to their guns and change their decisions willy-nilly. He knew that he was being reviewed as a boss not as a doctor and that his behaviour with employees should be reviewed, not his skills as a doctor.

well said

House also wishes he could admit it, but at the same time can't because he can't contradict his own world view of never being wrong. House also says "Everyone lies" while he himself knows he's also a liar, a liar to himself. The things he can't admit.

@@pliskenx51mm83 I never lie

He wouldn't be house if he did admit it though

i love you

Aawww. That's kind of.... bittersweet.

House would of never survived this woke cancel culture and I am very concerned for our military right now.

Eh, had the opposite when I was in the Army 2005-2009. Brown Nosers always rose to the top, and it didn't matter who you were if your Chain of Command didn't like you, they'd make your life hell. Left a really bad taste in my mouth.

@@Jaigarful You experienced exactly why I’m concerned. Obama finished what Billy boi Clinton started. Ruining our military.

@@Jaigarful I got out before billy boi,I hope that taste in your mouth wasn’t because of one of his policies. Just kidding! 😝

sorry to hear about your first husband im glad you could rewatch some shorts and remember some of the good times :)

Joco, Logic incarnate? As fictional characters go, I think Spock or Tuvok would have burned him down to his skivvies.

@@mitchellmelkin4078 uuuhhhhh...okay???

Dude let the hostage go 🤣🤣💀

House isn't logical at all times. In fact, it can be argued that he didn't throw logic into the neurologist's face for accuracy's sake, but because he wanted to be punished and "pay" for what he did. Since he wasn't, he felt like he couldn't "get even" with Chase and he now has to actually process his guilt.

That's insightful but also consider House does tell Chase he's sorry later and implies it was his fault. Now his anger makes sense. The lady's emotional plea traded a beautifully rational victory for a hollow one.

@@rovidicus9574 wasn't exactly the lady's fault, but i do agree with house's mentality of "being right for the right reasons."

Or rather there's a part of House that wants humanity to stand for SOMETHING more than just results, just outcome. He was released from prison early because the hospital needed a doctor who can find the answers nobody else could. It all goes back to the story House related in Son of Coma Guy, where he tells the story off the Japanese janitor to whom the medical doctors turn when they're at their wits end. The janitor is an untouchable class, his presence among the venerable doctors stains their prestige, and yet THAT janitor who normally would NOT be allowed to share the same space at the same time as these doctors is tolerated and permitted among them BECAUSE he can produce the answers to the questions no one can solve. In that same way, House is like that janitor. He's abrasive, he's unkempt, he cavorts with hookers (more on this below). House is crass, uncivil, and does NOT respect even a modicum of authority or protocol. In fact, THIS absence of proper protocol his the environment that House cultivated and which produced the dangerous situation where Chase brought a scalpel into a room with an unrestrained patient who may have a psychotic break. And yet, at the end, Dr. Cofield tolerated this because the patient's wife reveals that House produced the right result when NOBODY else could. Cofield's decision meant that ALL THAT MATTERS, and perhaps the ONLY thing that matters to Cofield, to PPTH, to Foreman, to the Parole Board, to society at large...is the outcome, the ability to get the desired result. And this all goes back to House's first disillusionment with the world. It's when he realized his mother was being unfaithful to his domestic father whom House suspected is NOT his biological father. House saw his mother's infidelities while maintaining her marriage to his military father (not his bio dad) as hypocrisy. The military father was harsh, demanding and exacting and (as we learn in One Day, One Room) imposed strict forms of punishment for non-compliance. In a way, House resented that his mother stayed with this harsh not dad, instead of building a life with the man who fathered House. His mother chose practicality over affairs of the heart. Worse still, House later learns that even the man he THOUGHT was his bio dad is NOT. This makes his mother's infidelities even more rampant and her hypocrisy even more extreme. House desperately wants PEOPLE to be about something more than just the desired result/outcome. To rise above biological drives, otherwise, "We are selfish base animals crawling across the earth, but because we got brains, if we try real hard we can occasionally aspire to something that is less than pure evil." (Season 3, Episode 12) SO House flipped when Cofield just abandoned the trajectory and conclusion of his inquiry simply because House produced the desired result! He wants people to stand for something more than simply maneuvering themselves and others to get what they want.

yeah Chase pulled the prank back at him

Usually when they say it's nobody's it's because it is EVERYBODY'S fault. Fact is, you can't put the total fault on everybody, and you can't blame fate either as it is fate along with their decisions that set everything off in motion. Or at least I think so, I could definitely be wrong. It's always somebody's fault, but the complete blame is not always theirs, rather, it is shared. And that is why it becomes nobody's fault, except fate's, or coincidence

"usually whenever they say it's nobody's fault it's always someone fault" So it's usually always someone's fault? OK, got it. ;-)

@@nickynicks_ so they should all go to prison. problem solved. next case :D

It's usually always huh?

@@irishkniferd9837 Not exactly, because the full blame was not on all of them. It was the decisions of few that led to the ultimate mistake. So they're basically innocent more than they are guilty... which is why I agree with the guy saying "nobody's fault." Happy new year

He encourages others to break the rules and operate without caution which is exactly the kind of behavior that Chase exhibited

@@captainchaos5705 he didn't encourage any rule breaking in this specific scenario, and didn't break any rules himself, what would the crime be if you teach your son not to stop at stop signs and then he gets pulled over for rolling a stop, do you get a ticket?

@@captainchaos5705 He doesn’t encourage his doctors to do their own tests. Ever. Chase was acting independently, not because House wanted him to, or because House has encouraged that behavior in the past. House always instructs his doctors on which tests to do, it isn’t his responsibility if they disobey him. House’s treatments are risky sure, but I have a hard time believing that patients seek out his expertise without first acknowledging that fact. In universe he is a renowned doctor. Chase was at fault, or even the patient himself for not advocating for himself. Or nobody was.

@@VideoGuy232 The point is that Chase did what House would've done. House at several points says "break Cuddy's rules, not mine" through out the show, either in those or other words. In this episode he was basically the Cuddy while Chase was the House, House had a plan for diagnostic test and Chase went and completely ignored House because he thought his own theory is right, which is exactly what House does in pretty much every episode. House encourages this behavior not by his words but by his own behavior. Chase was absolutely at fault for his own injury, but he acted like House because he learned from House.

Dosnt it also mean that house hadnt taken any since the day if the incident, something I always thought about.

4:14

You should see him in Westworld, he's fucking amazing there, he's a protagonist in there.

Thats why house got upset.

Because regardless of who was right or fucking wrong someone almost lost there fucking lives over this it should of ended a long time ago but house decided if they were going to sink then the captain cant abandon ship even if he wanted to he probably knew what happened but cant be sure if anything is real anymore so he didnt care what happened to him just that whoever had felt wronged got the justice they wanted even if he thought he was going to die

I like how everyone is just like naw the dude who stabbed him wasn't at fault no its somebody else fault because they should know better..... like no it's obviously the dude who stabbed hims fault any other blame assignment is really just petty and unnecessary.

@Tangerine Tech Dude was restrained in a hospital clearly having an episode. If a kid gets into an animal cage and gets mauled, you get that the animal did it, but the question is how did the kid get in? Where were the keepers? Where were the parents?

@@tangerinetech5300they gave him medication that would cause a psychotic episode if they were wrong about the diagnosis. Instead of waiting for it to pass before trying another test chase brought a weapon into the room with the patient and put everyone in there in danger. It wasn't the man's fault that his doctors made it so when he would snap that someone was guaranteed to get hurt.

Legally they can't actually do that. Forcing restraint on someone requires legal intervention as you are removing their freedom and liberty. You must before restraining someone, prove beyond all reasonable doubt they are a danger to themselves or others, apply the correct legal powers. Not sure what the US version is, but in the UK there is legislation called the mental health act, and form of physical restraint/detianment must be justified under it by meeting very strict requirements. Requirements which none of houses team are capable of determining as they aren't psychiatric dr's.

@@cgi2002 You can restrain a patient who is a danger to themselves or others. The hospital just has to have a valid reason. The difference is just the type of restraints you can use. Soft, hard, etc.

@@stephysteph9538 exactly, and they don't have a legally valid reason prior to this incident, as they must to use restraint 1st have a psychiatric dr assess them, they didn't. General medical staff don't have the legal authority to make a call for restraint except to stop an immediate danger, at which point they lose the legal power to treat the patient further beyond immediate life saving procedures. A psychiatric assessment must take place asap, and the patients next of kin/advocate/whoever holds power to make decisions for them must be contracted, as the patient is no longer legally deemed to have the ability to consent to treatment/testing until the assessment is concluded (even then they may not be deemed to have capacity to make decisions). The laws regarding this are exceptionally strict.

@National Socialism psychosis doesn't automatically need restraint. Many people suffer from psychosis without becoming violent or committing self harm. Also read the side effects on most medications, you'll find a lovely long list that often includes many mental health conditions. By this logic you should be restrained if taking most medication as there is a side effect that could lead you to self harm. The law doesn't work like that. Your not allowed to preemptively remove someone's freedom because of a possibility, you can't be proactive like that. Atleast not without suitable legal reason (which must be approved by existing laws, and the people empowered to enforce that law, they are not medical Dr's), in the UK thats the mental health act, in the US I am not sure what legal setup exists for mental health. In the UK the people needed to remove your freedoms are (it varies depending on circumstance a little) atleast 1 mental health Dr, 1 mental health social worker to start. Mental health consultants will be involved within 72 hours along with additional Dr's, and the entire time mental health nurses & careers would be involved directly with the care of the patient. The patient would be on constant ob's. But that's the UK. The US mental health system is broken beyond reason and the patient would likely have been shot by police or hospital security before recieveing any suitable help had they not managed to sedate him.

The step of procedures in the treatment was to have an experienced mental health specialist be able to assess/evaluate his mental state. They knew the patient had a 1 in 3 chance likelihood of having a psychotic break, and I bet that House had a good idea as to when the patient should become psychotic (plus/minus a certain length of time)... So put a basic risk assessment in place to prevent danger, and tell it to the team prior to starting on the medication, and then request a psych eval in approximately however long. Then they can have a paper trail regarding their diagnostic testing and results.

Copeland's point earlier talking to Chase was the best point he could have made: House makes saving lives a game, defies authority and teaches his employees to defy authority as long as they think they're right. It is that behavior and reinforced behavior that taught Chase to behave like he did and created the environment where it was okay to do it, no matter how reckless it was. It's also why Chase is the one to take House's position when he dies. He took to heart House's methodology more than anyone else.

I think this was a lesson Chase learned that helped him become a better doctor, still it was a lesson he had to learn... Don't play with knives.

@@doublesahsunpowah6898 Um...Chase is a surgeon; he sorta *has* to play with knives. 😉

No 13 was favorite

Cala boca, seu merda

@@atahana3r3rr3 Agreed. While I believe House saw a lot of himself in Chase, and at the end of the series he definitely had a strong respect for Chase as a doctor. 13 was indeed his favorite. Outside of Wilson, no one else understood House as much as 13 did.

@@Regitron3000 Within his team, 13 and Cameron were his favorites, even if he didn't fully acknowledge it. Outside of it, it isn't even necessary to point it out. He literally gave up everything to be with Wilson

@@LoveIncest Cameron was never his favorite ever

That's what Bernard would say

Me when i watch every single house clip

It’s like one of the very last episodes of the last season.

@@WoWBaxter are you sure about that, from what I recall their wasn't much medical stuff, more of House and Wilson's relationship.

Season 8, episode 11

... With some faba beans and a nice Chianti?

Watch the one when Amber dies, it is actually 2 episodes😅

I think he's busy dealing with fires still.

I should have introduced myself, seeing as we’re related. Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley.

Well, he did do a episode where he had to diagnosis a CIA agent.

Fun fact. The patient went on to have a fruitful career doing black ops with the CIA. Until he planted a bomb in Miami.