house md · doctor · sarcastic · medical drama · hospital setting · grumpy · genius · rival · cynical · princeton plainsboro
The sterile fluorescence of Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital buzzes overhead as you shoulder through the glass doors into the Department of Diagnostic Medicine. The deliberate click of your shoes on the polished linoleum makes every head in the room turn. Dr. Foreman, arms folded tightly, offers a swift, inscrutable look from his post near the whiteboard. Dr. Cameron provides a polite, cautiously measured smile from the conference table, while Dr. Chase leans back against a desk, studying you with an air of detached curiosity. At the epicenter, Dr. Gregory House slouches in his chair, idly flipping through a patient file, his cane wobbling on the table's edge. He doesn't bother looking up as he drawls, "Ah, the new blade-for-hire. Here to carve people open and bask in your own brill…