House, MD : House Divided
This episode aired last night, which I truly regret missing seeing it. I’ll wait until it releases on Hulu.com next Tuesday (they usually post new episodes 8 days after broadcast), and will definitely write up my impressions about this show.
To summarize this – this is the first time that both communities (ASL /Deaf community and CI community) are upset about this show!
“House Divided” – indeed. Our “House” is very deeply divided and this show really offended each of us.
Then the question remains:
Should we all work together to tell FOX Television and the writers of HOUSE, MD that their inaccuracies and fallacies are unacceptable?
Think about it. This is indeed a golden opportunity for all of us to work to force the entertainment industry to be more responsible with their information. House, MD consistently get 12 million viewers every week.
Then, it means 12 million viewers got the wrong impression about Deaf Community, the cochlear implant, and all of these issues.
That is a huge step backwards for all of us, and would that be a huge step forward for all of us to work together to do something ?
Pondering…
Best,
Amy Cohen Efron
Post Scriptum: After discussing with one of my friends, I think it is highly possible that these writers of House, MD made this episode as a hyperbole. These writers were focusing at two extremes (Deaf/ASL Community and CI community) by exaggerating the issues that are dear to them. It is very suspicious that these Hollywood writers would go that far to mock the Deaf Community for their deaf pride, identity and ASL, and making outlandish impressions/inaccuracies about cochlear implantation, especially as a miracle cure for deafness.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hm. I hadn’t thought of it that way. If it was intended to put two exaggerated opposites together for dramatic impact, it was clumsy, incompletely researched and lacked polish. As an inept piece of work, should the ASL and CI communities even bother?
April 28th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Of course, this episode is an inept piece of work, and why did that happen at this time? Why now?
Pepsi Commercial – lots of controversy.
CSI – Criminal Intent – lots of controversy.
Sweet Nothings in My Ear – lots of controversy.
Through Deaf Eyes – lots of controversy.
Do you think that 14 million viewers will instantly recognize that this is poorly written episode, and disregard all of the prejudice, inaccuracies, and myths that were presented throughout the show?
Why we should even bother? Let this slide by and move on knowing that it is just entertainment? Oh well… should we question to the writers of their intention. Imagine all of the advertising dollars that they are earning from this irresponsible show?
“Should the ASL and CI communities even bother?” I don’t know. You tell me.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
It’s how Dr. Greg House’s behavior suppose be. I gave “B+” on that show.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:12 am
I am a huge fan of “House M.D.”….last night’s episode was plain stupid…I plan to blog about it later, but wanted to point that I am more disappointed about all the MISCONCEPTIONS..and this has seriously ruined the show for me….
I am more disappointed in the writers for “House M.D.” than I am in the characters because the characters on that show acted like normal hearing doctors would. I do not even care that the characters in the show found the deaf kid to be an idiot…most hearing people do think that way anyway…it is like us meeting a blind person who DOES NOT WANT to see. I am disappointed about the lack of research the writers did…15 minutes scanning DeafRead.com would have taught them 100X more things…
April 29th, 2009 at 3:30 am
I have seen the show the other night. I was appalled by the show. It was unbelievable and it sure pissed me off. It absolutely gave out the wrong impression about cochlear implant! So much errors in the plot about CI. The writer from FOX should know better than that and do research before writing it into the show! I loved the House MD show and I couldn’t believe my own eyes that the part about CI was written into the show. I wish they haven’t done that! Truly unbelievable..
April 29th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Yeah, a lot of people are complaining about how “fast” the implant process was. It’s a TV show. It was “fast” for the same reason Star Trek invented warp speed. It’s a storytelling device. To complain about accuracy in television is like trying to hold the ocean in your hands.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Interesting perspective, Joseph. My question remains, do we truly think that the writers have gone that so far to write up so many misconceptions, inaccuracies and fallacies about cochlear implantation, Deaf community and its pride/identity, and all. Is it irresponsibility or sensationalism? We had several previous TV shows which consistently display inaccuracies, and how would the audience know?
Instead of trying to hold the ocean in our hands, what are other ways we can promote ourselves accurately through the media? That is something we all need to examine closely about this.
Thanks for leaving the comment here.
Amy
April 29th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Hi JJ! Its so nice to hear from you again and thanks for leaving the comment. I love House, M.D. shows and I am surprised based on what I read that this episode was so horrible that leaves such a bitter taste in our community as whole. It is a strong medical /pathological view on deafness with a tinge of mockery, disdain and prejudice. Also, the writers shows a huge irresponsibility for ‘promoting’ a miracle cure. It made me think was that done on purpose or out of pure ignorance? That’s where I get very, very suspicious.
Amy
April 29th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Hi Sam,
Yes, it is typical Dr. Greg House who is a major pain in the butt and that is his character flaw. Mind if I ask why did you assign B+ on that show with poor and sloppy writing efforts that implies prejudice among the deaf people? Makes me wonder why would this had to happen after so many different TV shows about cochlear implantation.
Are the writers that ignorant or are they doing this on purpose to sensationalize this TV show to earn millions of advertising dollars?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Hi there Deafreckles! I believe you that you were pissed off and I would feel the same. I’ll wait until this show appears on Hulu.com with closed captions. I will get the names of the writers and find a way to complain about this sloppy scriptwriting work.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:02 am
If the purpose was sensationalizing the Deaf Culture-CI controversy, it would be like sensationalizing ugly concepts such as racism or pedophilia just for the purpose of kicking up controversy.
What does controversy do? Create attention and talk. Does it affect the advertisers that sponsor the show? Not really, who remembers the advertisers?
However, advertisers listen when viewers complain about their shows and hurt their reputation and sales.
We’re just a small minority, but one letter is worth a thousand viewers. This is where there can be cooperation between the d/Deaf organizations.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am
First of all, I would like to say, I enjoyed the episode, much better than I enjoyed SWEET NOTHING IN MY EAR or COLD CASE or CSI episodes. Dr. House, himself is a strange fellow… his behavior on why he gave the deaf character C.I. was not because to stop deafness itself but to help him hear before he becomes blind…so Dr. House thought, Dr. House realize it was a mistake to do that after all.
Some say they are not blaming the characters and not factual…since when is the MEDIA in TV or FILM ever 100% factual?? Never!! TV and Film are always exaggerated with time and storyline to keep the viewers tuned in with the show and with limited time… If a TV show or Film were to follow every accuracies then Dr. House’s episode would have to run weeks or the characters would have to find storylines that lasts few weeks… like Joseph said, he’s right, I dont know about Star Trek thing if it applies to same method of timing but yeah.
The point of the story we need to focus on is Why the deaf person got CI and how the Deaf person wanted to be deaf not hearing, and how the mother was supportive then later not, and how two doctors debated on whether Deaf is a culture or not. They brought up good topics and points. Doesn’t matter how quickly it was resolved.
Since WHEN does the deaf community not complain about deaf being on TV?? Like you said Amy, controversy with everything that included Deaf actors or characters. Like Pepsi, and so on.. seems like nothing makes us happy.
Instead, I see us all blogging about it or complaining about it but not doing anything about it. So the question is WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? When NBC did Bionic Woman, hiring a hearing actress to play a deaf sister, NBC website was flooded with insults and complaints from the deaf community and they fired the actress and replaced the character with a hearing role. So how do we handle the issues that is not deem appropriate?
Something we must think before we quickly act upon this kind of controversial issues and make the right approach, otherwise we are scaring away the Hollywood writers and producers to ever write about another deaf character because they do not need another “controversy” is that what we want??
April 29th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
That’s WHY I propose to have the nationwide boycott of the FOX-TV, because of its right-wing tendency.
I have many favorite tv shows on the FOX-TV as compared to other tv networks –
“Fringe”
“Terminator – Chroncile of Sarah Connors”
but the FOX-TV have been very disrespectul to President Obama by refusing to air his upcoming prime-time speech.
The FOX-TV have been not aware of the real meaning of “tea bagging” in its own slang term. It means male scrtoum for gay males. LOL!
RLM
April 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Joseph,
At least, the entertainers have responsibility for the public good, too.
For example. the 1930s classic screwball comedy film – “It Happened One
Night” with Clark Gable and Clara Bow. One scene showed Gable without the undergarment shirt.
The sales of male undergarment shirt dramatically fell to the all-low.
No matter how the entertainment is just an entertainment.
“The Birth of a Nation” 1915 silent film fostered the hostile attitude toward African Americans. The number of lynchings of African Americans shot up to the all-high.
From what I had done my sociological research on the impacts of entertainment on the general public.
People know that the original Star Trek is purely a fanasty show with message of social justice.
Of course, the spaceship with warp speed is just purely imaginable at its time.
FOX-TV’s “House, M.D.” ought to put the disclaimer before every show that all medical procedure meant for just an entertainment, not fact-based.
RLM
April 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Problems as I see from the show…
1. Doctors think it’s ok to use family members as interpreters. More work for deaf professionals to say its better to use certified interpreters.
2. You cannot secretly implant a CI just for the heck of it.
3. Fox TV tends to lean far to the right politically. The right wingers like to force things on people.
4. The shows credibility is in question now for the horrendously flawed script and show.
5. The show generally created more work for deaf professionals to correct Fox TV’s misconceptions.
6. Who knows? Maybe more attention will be focused on ADA to educate the Medical Profession?
R.N.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
What if a clueless hearing parent of a deaf child saw last night’s episode and believed that it only takes a day or so after surgery to activate it for their child to become hearing and understand them?
There are some people out there that believe what they see on T.V. without researching the facts.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I wrote a reaction to this episode for a bulletin board at school, I’m currently in an interpreter program, and I feel similarly to you, Amy. I think the Deaf community AND the cochlear implant community both have a right to be upset about this episode…it was inaccurate and unrealistic. Of course that’s normal for Television! However when dealing with sensitive and controversial issues, it is in the interest of the television network to be careful about what they put on the air. I think that by their careless research and inaccurate portrayal of both sides of this controversy, Fox is asking for it!
I’m actually a big fan of House, and I like Bones and American Idol too which are also on Fox. However, I’ve been disappointed in them lately; for 3 days straight last week, their captioning was not working AT ALL. They had no closed captions whatsoever! My brother is a Deaf cochlear implant recipient, and actually really enjoys watching Bones and American Idol with me. He was pretty upset when they both came on last week with no closed captions. Then House aired on Monday and took a stab both at the medical and cultural view of cochlear implants. I’m disappointed and I think something DOES need to be done…what do you suggest?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Hi Brynna,
Thanks for leaving the comment here. What I will suggest to do is to get the copy of this episode, break down the parts that are offending, along with the research and factual information behind it. Then find out who are the writers, producers and the advertisers for the Fox Television, and figure out about the our viewers’ rights and responsibilities for irresponsible writing that can cause too much harm in young deaf babies. Many people take the fictional story for granted, but it comes with medical information that can cause too much misunderstandings.
Why we all have our own mindset that it is normal for Television? I recall of one movie that allows to mock cognitively impaired citizens by calling retards, and there was a huge campaign against the R-word.
That’s something we need to do… to stop the media misrepresenting us over and over again.
What would you suggest too?
April 30th, 2009 at 12:05 am
When I say WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? I do not mean boycott. The show has already been aired, the point of boycotting?? Boycotting what?? What results you want from Boycotting?
We need the media approach on things on how we need to be heard… not by boycotting or “blogging” about it. I’m talking about NAD or a major deaf organization to come to terms with the Hollywood Industry like NAACP does.
What does “tea bagging” and gay males have to do with DEAF issues? Is it bad enough we are already associated and compared to other cultures? First we need to approach this in a fashionable manner where we are heard, and same time maturely… boycotting comes LATER if they continue to dismiss our request to be heard. First thing first, boycotting is not the answer right now.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:51 am
It seems irresponsible to me for you to suggest taking action against a show that you did not even watch. How do you know what you are offended about if you did not see the episode? You are taking action without prior knowledge – kind of the some thing you are complaing about the writers of the show doing.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am
M.C.,
I just enjoy taking swipe at the FOX-Tv whenever I have a chance.
Just stuff the FOX-TV’s mouthpieces with their own contradicatory choice of word use.
We are talking about the boycott of the FOX-TV network!
RLM
May 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’m going to watch this episode with captions on hulu and really break down the inaccuracies. But I thought everyone should know this forum exists. So I’m posting a link.
http://housewiki.fox.com/page/House+MD+TV+Show+Inaccuracies
May 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
What I kept thinking during that “House MD” episode was of the early episode where Stacey tries to make a decision to amputate House’s leg bec it will give him better quality of life in HER view. That was what broke them up. Now here is House who states over and over in that episode and many others that he doesn’t want to be “fixed” and he goes and “fixes” someone else according to HIS views.
All in all, there was absolutely NOTHING in that episode that was presented accurately: there was no certified ASL interpreter to interpret for the boy, the CI worked “instantly” instead of taking time to be turned on, etc. The only accurate piece was where Thirteen said that there is a Deaf culture. Even Foreman was against the idea of Deaf culture. Suppose someone told HIM there is no black culture???
I think it is of utmost importance to correct this. Suppose they had a show where racism was ok or homophobia or any other number of discriminatory methods of “entertainment”? This is just plain wrong.
Doctors I know have told me that “House MD” is the MOST accurate medical show out there. And people DO take what they see in TV shows seriously. Sad, but true.
So here’s my recommendation: letters to the writers pointing out innaccuracies, and if anyone wants to take a stab at it, a better script.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Oh yes, and in response to the person who brought up NAD, I think an official response to FOX, the writers, and even Hugh Laurie himself is in order from NAD. We have a right to have our organizations have a voice in how we are portrayed on TV.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
ok, finally got to see the show on hulu.
my take? the episode was about house and how his identity is sort of divided between reality and surreality. i kind of wonder if the CI thing is sort of similar. when the kid was in surgery, for a second, i wasn’t sure if the CI thing was for real or not. it was so beyond reality that it was almost a surreality: deaf=reality; ci=surreality. ok, it’s a little bit of a stretch, but it’s a thought. sort of like amy’s theory of hyperbole.
the bummer about it, though: how much does the average know how ridiculously inaccurate the ci segment was?
in the end the episode would probably have been stronger without the ci thing. or at least just have had dr. house blow off some steam about it and then moved on.
May 10th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Hi Amy!
I finally watched the show just the other day, (Thank you, DVR!) and it did bother me for a few things afterward.
But now that I think about it, given a lot of thoughts since.. I realized that nothing should NOT bother us because first, this is just purely entertainment, nothing is real.
I must admit that hearing or rather seeing “C.I. is a curable” is very annoying because it is NOT curable. However again, it is just entertainment.
Like my favorite show “Grey’s Anatomy”, they made up a lot of medical stuff such as cured a few people with type of diseases, Jes said it did not happen in real life. Such as some kind of diseases how they treat patients on the show, Jes said it did not happen the way it is supposed in real life.
So, many things on the show that did NOT happen in real life which means, it’s common sense where people should be aware that anything happened on House does not happen in real life as well.
I think the whole situation will be a different story if it’s based on a true story and they add to make it more interesting that is then given a false advertising. It’s just how I look at.
I have a big concern is that every time a show that includes deaf characters, we made a big deal about it, pointing out their flaws and such. But we have to sit back and realize that every show has their own flaws so what we can do is at least to appreciate by having deaf actor(s) in shows/movies. That’s a big thing for Deaf community, IMO.
Last thing I want for networks is to see people getting upset over this, they’d say.. ok better off not including deaf characters from now on because they can never get it right.
I never liked “House, M.D.” anyways.
-SG
May 11th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I’m an avid HOUSE fan… I expected to see House do something arogant toward the deaf kid, but to have Foreman join in and only give the slightest aknowledgement toward “13’s” reply that the Deaf have their own culture, and Language wasn’t acceptable.
Fighting the system might be like trying to hold the ocean in your hands, but with enough of us we sure can make a dent. Who do I contact if I want to express my feelings to Fox, and the House writters?
May 14th, 2009 at 12:25 am
hi heres the thing not every thing on tv is ment to be taken so literal i think the point house was trying to make was simple if you have a disability and it is correctable then why not give it a chance i think if you asked someone blind would you like the opertunity to beable to see they would say yes i my self have cp on my left side if a doctor came to me and said hey they have this new thing that will allow you to have full funtion of your left arm and hand would you like it i’d say yes with out even haveing to think about it but hey what do i know i only have a disability too but like i said it is just a show and if you have a disability and your an adult and you can’t take light in the stupidity of the way some people react by now then you need to seek help to learn to deal with it people should not get afended by something that is not ment to be true its made up if you get easily afended mybe you shouldn’t watch house cause thats why alot of people watch it they write him so he says what he is thinking no matter if the person likes it or not have you ever wanted to say something to someone but didn’t because you thought it my hurt them no matter if it was true or not thats the way the wrighters look at it
May 26th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Hey Amy, I’m throwing in my two cents… I was upset with the show, but then after thinking about it, I have to admit that House does not discriminate.. he treats all patients badly, he does procedures that are invasive and life threatening on everyone…. what bothered me the most, was the mom’s decision at the end to force her son to get the CI after all was said and done… again, this is a which is valid considering the majority of parents that continue to grieve for what they see as a loss rather than embrace their “deaf” child as having a gift.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I think It was a good show, I am part of an ASL class and reading deaf again as an assignment. The show points out how most hearing people and doctors react to the deaf community. I mean look at a deaf community event and tell me how often do you see a free hearing test truck there. The show is a little distasteful but it shows hard reality that we overlook. Now the show did not have to bring out the deaf and ignorance of people, but it has and now we have to discuss some things. Not to say the show is right in that episode or was it what some people think. In the end there was a decision the mother made who is really to say right and wrong. Personally I believe that it gives a chance for the deaf community to embark on some ideas to share its own ideas and educate the people about them.
They do not have too, but its something worth wild to explore. At this present time me and my class are looking for ways to assist and learn from the deaf community….
March 28th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
AAAHHH! What the hell!!! Damn! I can’t believe the TV People had the gall to do the ‘HOUSE DIVIDED” for the HOUSE show, violating Deaf person’s Right by overriding and having him implanted just like that is immoral. All the audistic and political bickering back and forth about deafness being a disability or a culture is CRAP! Hogwash!!!! Realistically…..millions of Deaf people cannot afford implants. They cannot afford the upkeeps either. They don’t have the luxury of money to buy all the gas required back and forth to hospitals and doctors and speech/hearing therapies involved. Realistically…millions of Deaf People know based on Deaf History how doctors abused Deaf Rights for centuries. Deaf People have every Right to resist any authority that don’t know jack about Deafness’s Right to a life with dignity, honor, respect and without physical and mental pain and horrors involved. Realistically….Deaf People knows cochlear implants are unsafe. Think tasers/stun guns. Cops make mistakes, they taser Deaf people by mistake. What happens if this Deaf is implanted? a Fried head? Or did it explode? What about those pads paramedics uses to revive a hear that stops beating? What happens if this Deaf is implanted and his/her heart stops and the paramedic applies the two pads to revive the heart, what happens to the head with the implant inside it? Realistically….cochlear implants are not always compatible and can cause excruciating headaches, have to go spend more money on gas or borrow money, getting deeper into debt, to buy air fare to get to a hospital and back, too. Realistically….cochlear implants are still in the experimental stages and million of Deaf people don’t come from rich families or well to do families, it’s realistic to accept the status of Deafness as is and live with the Deafness and be happy with it instead of feeling negative towards being stuck with deafness the audistic way. It’s not culture. It’s not politics. It’s economics and living a good life without negativeness and without audism. HOUSE is a perfect example of flagrant, inhiumane, unethical audism practices in full force. Deaf will be happy to be cured but they have a Right to know the risks involved and they have a Right to say NO. Cochlear Implants is NOT A CURE. There are plenty of implanted who still have to read lips and plenty who quit wearing the device to turn on the implant because of the unending nauseaous delibitating vertigoes. It is not a cure. Being cured means the ability to hear without reading lips 100%.
March 28th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
DEAF PEOPLE ARE NOT IDIOTS NOR MORONS NOR ARE THEY UNREASONABLE STUBBORN MULES!!! They are intelligent. Their intelligence is not disabled. Hearing people cannot get that fact into their superiority audistic thick skull that Deaf people knows more and BETTER and are knowledgeable on the subject of DEAFNESS THAN HEARING PEOPLE, INCLUDING HEARING LAWYERS AND HEARING DOCTORS, TOO!!!! Deaf people don’t like being MANHANDLED much the same way HEARING PEOPLE, HEARING DOCTORS AND HEARING LAWYERS don’t like being MANHANDLED either because DEAF PEOPLE’S BRAIN, INTELLIGENCE, FEELINGS, MORALS, COGNIZANCE, CONCEPTUALITY, ETC ARE EQUIVALENT TO NORMAL HEARING PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT RETARDED, MENTALLY ILL, UNDERDEVELOPED, COGNIZANT-DISABLED, INCOMPETENTS AND BRAIN DAMAGED.
March 28th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
One more thing, cochlear implants are in the experimental stages, the doctors and manufacturers of cochlear implants should pay Deaf Volunteers and keep them on a lifelong payroll, living in style, along with IRA, full dental insurances, house insurances, life insurances, health insurances, beneficiaries insurances and traveling expenses, too. Not the other way around. Believe me, doctors and manufacturers will end up with a long waiting list. A lot of Deaf people will volunteer under these circumstances because the economics have for centuries been designed by HEARING ECONOMIC ENGINEERS who only thought of HEARING PEOPLE including HEARING HANDICAPPED/HEARING MENTALLY CHALLENGED, too, while mindlessly, carelessly, thoughtlessly, apathetically, audistically excluding DEAF PEOPLE from the drawing plans. I’m not being negative nor am I angry. I’m realistic just like that HOUSE character. A hardass who don’t mince words. And none of Audists can prove me wrong. Don’t argue with me or at me. I listen to facts because I got better things to do than waste time “listening” to arguements (and reading them) directly from thin air. Thin air means people’s opinions that are theories and opinions and theories that has never been proven and used for arguements come from airheads. I’m not talking about “blondes”. I’m talking about HEARING PEOPLE and DEAF PEOPLE/HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE WHO BELIEVES EVERYTHING HEARING PEOPLE TELLS THEM WITHOUT VERIFYING FIRST. AIRHEADS!!!!!! Get real! Deaf a culture? Hell yeah! Deaf people are real. They exist. They got a language. They are intelligent beings. They are human beings. They are not a medical case designed to be experiemented upon like they are fated to end up experimental specimens just because they can’t HEAR. HEARING don’t make them any less informed than any HEARING PEOPLE WITH INCREDIBLY POOR LISTENING SKILLS. Yes, Deaf is a culture and that is a fact. Period. End of discussion. A disability? Being Black was a disability. Being Female was a disability. Remember???? Or have they all forgotten about that, too???? They must have because they’ve proved themselves to be Audists themselves. Bigoted and racist just like Slave Owners and Husbands a hundred years ago and beyond. Looks like a lot of them, Blacks and Women, too, haven’t learned their History lesson. MMMmmmm…….
March 28th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Correction: Strike out HEARING and replace it with: DEAFNESS or lack of Hearing Sensory don’t make them any less informed than any HEARING PEOPLE WITH INCREDIBLY POOR LISTENING SKILLS.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Hello everyone!
To err is human. Try to forgive. You know that it is useless to push buttons on a keyboard feeling sad or angry. How would they know if they were wrong? Write a letter, two letters … to the writers of “House M.D.” But do not fret. it won’t help!
Why do we all so desperately need an external enemy? Does it help us unite, and feel like we are a part of something important, feel safe…?
House as a character is always offensive, he is full of it! This character insults women, men, elderly people, children, healthy & sick, Afro-Americans, Asians, the blind, the deaf, the handicapped, the mentally disabled, and even oncological patients near death. Millions of people may feel abused!
But, people there, you watch it, and you like it!
If you feel insulted only when the deaf are mistreated then you are a worshipper of double morals.
One more idea. Let us suppose that the writers on receiving millions of irate letters from all the listed above “sufferers” rewrote the script. House is an embodiment of politeness and courtesy…Would you still watch that?