I could easily do without the three stooges entirely – perhaps have random doctors rolling in and out of House’s little world – but Cuddy’s presence shows that there’s a higher power than House, no matter how smart he may be (or thinks he is). After all, House is still doing time in the clinic week after week because Cuddy beat him at his own game way back in the early days. I so respect her for that. And every week I remember how Cuddy grew from a call girl / law student into the capable doctor / manager we see today.

What do you mean, I’m mixing my fandoms?

Foreman has been less dissected, partly because he is much less open than Chase or Cameron. However, we know that he isn’t very forgiving of personal foibles. He has almost no sympathy for homeless people or criminals, unless he thinks that there is an organic reason for their condition. He is also highly uncomfortable with breaking rules, and probably would not do so if not pressured by House. Basically, he cares about getting patients well, but he is not very imaginative and tends to be rather timid when it comes to taking chances or challenging a conventional diagnosis. He is very “by-the-book.”

* Vogler was a wealthy man who donated $100 million to the hospital in exchange for a position of leadership. He tried to throw his weight around to get House thrown out, but eventually left after Dr. Cuddy realized that they would all be owned by Vogler if they didn’t throw him out.

But I always liked Cameron over Chase, who, as Beta said ,seems more concerned with his ego/professional standing then his patients.

I never said Cameron should change “all at once”, so I’m not sure who you believe you’re arguing with on that point.

(1) Cameron is stil lvery young. If she is the same age as the actress who portrays her, she is only 26. So she is entitled to make a lot more mistakes than someone who has achieved the rank of major in the army.

(2) In the first episode, House said that he had deduced that Cameron was a damaged person (that’s why he hired her). She later revealed that she had married a man who died of cancer within a year of the marriage. But House pointed out that, from the type of cancer her late husband had, she knew must have known he was dying of cancer when she married him, indicating (to House) that she was screwed up before.

In any case, Cameron has a pathological need to fix everything that is wrong and to make the world the nice place she wants it to be. All of her naivete, etc. can be traced back to this fact. In fact, even her crush on House was due to her desire to “fix” him. So it seems to me that her continuous mistakes are more of a particular problem she has rather than a blanket problem for all females. To have her suddenly wise up completely would be as unrealistic as expecting House to suddenly become nice.

(3) I don’t necessarily think that Cameron expected any different response from House than she got. She was just so angry she had to complain to him to get it out of her system. As for Foreman, I think that what surprised her was that he had never seemed to act like a sphincter opening before. Chase had already shown that he would betray them to get ahead (he ratted out House to Vogler in an earlier episode), and House had disillusioned her several times, but I think that this is the first time when Foreman acted like a jerk.

In any case, I think that this is all leading up to something. I think at some point, Cameron will be pushed too far and she will find a way to push back. But she can’t just change all at once.