Character's Name: Doctor Gregory House
Character's Gender: Male
Chracter's Type: Doctor

Character's Appearance:

Dr. House is tall, thin, blue-eyed and with greying brown hair. He is perpetually rumpled and unshaven and walks with a pronounced limp , relying on a cane.

Character's Brief History/Background:

Once an active athletic man, House was crippled when an infarction in his thigh (due to a clot from an undetected aneurism) went undiagnosed by the doctors at the Princton-Plainsborough Teaching Hospital. After the clot was finally removed, he chose to go into an induced coma to ride out the pain from the ensuing muscle death. His then live-in girlfriend, constitutional lawyer Stacy Warner, chose against his will to have the muscle debrided while he was unconcious, resulting in the nerve damage and weakness that now plagues his every step. Although she did so to save his life, he never forgave her for making such a choice for him when he could not defend his own wishes.

Several years later, he now works with tenure at PPTH under Doctor Lisa Cuddy, in his own department, called simply Diagnostic Medicine. For years he avoided work, taking few cases and especially avoiding the clinic. Doctor Cuddy, however, has recently made strides to force him back into contact with the rest of the human race.

Considered a genius by his peers, he and his three ducklings, Doctors Chase, Cameron and Foreman, routinely diagnose unusual diseases and save the lives of many who would otherwise surely die.

Character's Personality:

Gregory House, MD is not a cuddly man. House is sarcastic, blunt, honest to a fault and highly reclusive if given a choice. Although he was never especially friendly, since suffering his disability, he has become more bitter and less social. Occasionally, however, he can be kind, particularly when his one friend, James Wilson is involved. He is also the king of "tough love", often using his abrasively honest nature to browbeat both his patients and others around him into doing what's right, rather than simply what's easy. Although he is difficult to get along with, those who take the time (or are forced to do so) to get to know him invariably come to at least respect him, if not actually like him.