TB or Not TB

While in Africa, a famous doctor becomes inexplicably ill and is sent to Dr. House for treatment.

tb_or_not_tb

Sebastian: "Another person just died. Where is your outrage?"
House: "Sure, they're dying, but it's got a great beat."

House: "The nameless poor have a face, and it's a pompous white man."

Sebastian: "Every minute 4 people die of TB."
House: "Wow, how can you sleep at night?"
Sebastian: "There's people dying in Africa of a disease that we cured over 50 years ago ..."
House: "Yeah, I know. I saw the concert. Seriously, let's say you sleep six hours, that means every night you kill 1440 people. I guess you gotta get some sleep, but come on, if you'd stayed up another 10 minutes you could have saved 40 lives. Do you send notes to the families in the morning? That's gonna take at least ten minutes, so that's another 40 dead, another 40 notes... why don't you go wrack yourself with guilt in your own room?"

House: "Every minute that we refuse to love one another, another puppy cries another tear."
Wilson: "You're just mad that he's closer to a Nobel Prize than you are."
House: "And yet I've nailed more Swedish babes. Crazy, crazy world."

Cameron: "He asked me out."
Chase: "I'm shocked when patients don't ask you out."
Cameron: "He also asked me to come to Africa."
Chase: "Boy, he moves fast."

House: "He's not even a real doctor; he's a human telethon."
Wilson: "Is that your problem with him? You see hypocrites every day. Why is this guy so special?"
House: "You think I have a hypocritical attitude to hypocrisy? The problem is there are 26 letters in the alphabet, and he only uses two of them [TB]. He treats thousands of patients with one diagnosis. He knows the answer going in. It's cheating."

House: "Listen, I saved his life. That means I get credit for every life he saves from here on out."

Sebastian: "Nah, TB's my disease."
House: "You own a disease? Well, I'm sorry I missed the IPO on dengue fever."

Cuddy: "Dr. Sebastian Charles collapsed during a presentation at Stoia Tucker."
House: "Really? Crushed under the weight of his own ego?"

House: "The reality is irrelevant. [House looks into the clinic and sees Cecelia sitting there.] I'll prove it. People who know me see me as an ass, treat me as an ass. People who don't know me see a cripple, treat me as a cripple. What kind of selfish jerk wouldn't take advantage of that fact?"

House: "Bizarre is good! Common has hundreds of explanations. Bizarre has hardly any."

House: "We are who people think we are."

House: "There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function."

House: "Do you notice how all the self-sacrificing women in history; Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, can't think of any others; they all die alone. The men, on the other hand, get so much fuzz, it's crazy."

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