Dr. House is such a popular character that sometimes it seems he is not just fiction, but a real person. What is the secret?
Who has not heard of the famous Dr. House? A doctor of all times and peoples is an invention of writers and directors. A doctor who literally pulls out of the world the most hopeless patients - just a character of the cult series. No matter how it is! You will not believe, but not everything is so simple.
What did David Shore want to say?
So who is he, Dr. House? A fictional character, a collective image or having its real prototype? The author of the idea, the producer, director and screenwriter David Shore is a big fan of both medical and detective TV series. Starting a new project, he came up with a story about a team of doctors who are able to diagnose and cure a patient where medicine seems to be powerless.
A certain detective on a medical topic, in which the protagonist, a diagnostician with an unusual and complex character, makes a diagnosis, as if investigating a crime, studying the habits and inclinations of his patients and paying attention to any seemingly insignificant, small detail.
1. Dr. House is the same Sherlock Holmes
According to David Shore himself, the prototype of Dr. House is the famous detective Sherlock Holmes - a literary character, created by the British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
It is noteworthy that Conan Doyle himself considered the prototype of his hero Dr. Joseph Bell, who worked at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital. He was famous for his ability to guess the nature and habits of his patients by the smallest detail. With this unique quality, Arthur Conan Doyle awarded his fictional hero Sherlock Holmes, who managed to unravel the most mysterious crimes brilliantly.
By the way, here is one more clue.
2. In one of the series "Doctor House" Gregory House himself receives as a gift a rare edition of the book on medicine of the same Joseph Bell "Manual for Surgical Operations."
And although, unlike the famous detective, House was engaged exclusively in medicine, it was from him that he inherited many other habits. House, like Holmes, was interested only in the most difficult cases, and irritated by routine work.
3. House made a diagnosis, as if investigating a crime, where the patient is a victim, the disease is a criminal, and the symptoms of the illness are evidence.
4. In the series "Doctor House" Gregory House lives in the house number 221, in apartment "B".
But to all the famous house No. 221-B along Baker Street in London.
This is the house where Sherlock Holmes lived, and now there is his museum.
5. In one of the series of Season 7, you can see House's driving license, which shows the address of Baker Street.
The same name of the street, but in another city.
6. Sherlock Holmes also had a loyal friend John Watson, by the way, a practicing physician.
The best and, perhaps, the only friend of Gregory House is the oncologist James Wilson.
Only Wilson throughout the series endures the unbearable nature of his eccentric friend, while retaining a sense of humor.
And only to Watson's opinion Holmes listens.
7. The author of the idea of the project "Doctor House" David Shore once said that the name "House" was invented in such a way that it looks like the name "Holmes".
8. House, like Holmes, loves music, and in moments of rest or inspiration plays the guitar or the piano.
Holmes preferred playing the violin.
9. There is a story about a patient of House named Irene Adler.
He was in love with her, and she left him. This story was told by Wilson to one of the members of the doctor's team.
The name Irene Adler is well known to all lovers of stories about Sherlock Holmes. In the story "Scandal in Bohemia" it was this woman who managed to outwit the great detective.
10. It should also be noted the addiction of both heroes to narcotic substances.
Also amazing is how their loyal friends selflessly fought this dependence.
11. And in the last series of the television series, House dies in front of Wilson, and then turns out to be alive. Similarly, Holmes dies in front of Watson and soon returns unscathed.
12. But imagine that the real Dr. House exists!
In addition to the literary prototype of Gregory House, the American spectator found his real hero. The diagnosis of Thomas Bolti is considered the prototype of "Dr. House." By the age of Bolti, almost the same age as House, he conducts private practice in New York. He performs his work qualitatively, and can even go to the challenge on rollers, so as not to get stuck in traffic jams.
One day the journalist asked Thomas Boltie which of the medicines he prescribes most often. And he answered briefly and accurately:
"Hope!"
Bolts of those doctors who sacrificially fight for the lives of their patients without leaving time for themselves. Thomas denies that he is the prototype of the main character of the series "Doctor House", although he admits that some similarities do exist. Especially it concerns the most complex and intricate stories in his practice. Some of them are really "house" ones.
Bolti is very similar to his "kinoshnogo" hero aspiration to unravel the riddle of the disease and help the person who trusted him. The doctor's patients fill out a 32-page questionnaire, answering the most varied questions about the symptoms of their illness, their habits, habits, hobbies and trips abroad.
Such careful study of the patient's history often leads to a solution of the disease itself. Inattention of doctors to trifles causes in Bolti anger and irritation.
But to the hero of the series "Doctor House" Bolti is quite critical. He does not like his arrogance, excessive self-confidence, some methods of his treatment. Bolti claims that many physicians are tempted to put themselves in the place of God. That's exactly what House does. But this should not be, and this is the main difference between Thomas Boltie and Gregory House. The New York diagnostician is sure that the series "Doctor House" has gained such popularity due to the great game of actor Hugh Laurie. Once he said:
"If Hugh Laurie played a firefighter, then this project would also be a success."
It should be noted that Bolti is the official doctor of MTV in New York. Many celebrities go to him, but for the most part, ordinary people turn to Thomas, to whom he always hurries to help.