"For a minute there I thought you were the smart one..."
For few: Five Things House Really Thinks About Chase But Would Never Say...
1. He didn't really hire Chase because his father made a phone call. He didn't even hire him because he was intrigued that the guy would apply for a fellowship as close as possible to exactly halfway around the world from Victoria without involving Atlantic cruise ships. He didn't hire him because he needed an amiable front man to deal with the patients and thought they might dig the Aussie accent or because the file was the first one alphabetically in the stack of folders Cuddy had given him. He had hired Chase because he needed someone capable of keeping his patients alive until he could figure out what was wrong with them. And Chase had the best record of any applicant in the pile. He doesn't suffer fools and wouldn't have hired one no matter whose father had called him.
2. The reason he didn't fire Chase after the whole Vogler affair had nothing to do with the fact that legally he had no grounds to do so. It might have had something to do with knowing how Chase had been pushed into that corner. But not even to himself is he ready to admit knowing how much of that pushing hadn't been by Vogler.
3. The fact that Chase can stonewall his most invasive prying techniques is a little unsettling. A good challenge, mind you. But frustrating. He's accustomed to getting the measure of people quickly. Most of them are easy to pigeonhole and predict. After all this time, though, he still can't figure Chase out. He never knows what's really going on in that little blond head. He pushes the wrong buttons as often as he finds the right ones. It's refreshing to find someone who constantly surprises him. But very frustrating.
4. It takes a certain kind of lunacy to continuously offer up outlandish suggestions, risking the ridicule of colleagues on a regular basis. (It's called bravery.) It requires some form of madness to think so far outside the usual box that others aren't sure you even see the box anymore. (It's called intuition.) There's a degree of bloody-minded stubbornness needed to stick with a case when everyone else has given up. (That one's dedication.) Then there's the dangerous obsessive streak that makes someone keep caring no matter who they've lost or how many times they've been burned. (That one? It's known as compassion.) And it takes a special kind of masochist who can put all those things together successfully. (That's why he thinks Chase has the potential to be brilliant one day.)
5. Foreman may share his taste in shoes, but it's Chase that he sees following in his footsteps.
1. He didn't really hire Chase because his father made a phone call. He didn't even hire him because he was intrigued that the guy would apply for a fellowship as close as possible to exactly halfway around the world from Victoria without involving Atlantic cruise ships. He didn't hire him because he needed an amiable front man to deal with the patients and thought they might dig the Aussie accent or because the file was the first one alphabetically in the stack of folders Cuddy had given him. He had hired Chase because he needed someone capable of keeping his patients alive until he could figure out what was wrong with them. And Chase had the best record of any applicant in the pile. He doesn't suffer fools and wouldn't have hired one no matter whose father had called him.
2. The reason he didn't fire Chase after the whole Vogler affair had nothing to do with the fact that legally he had no grounds to do so. It might have had something to do with knowing how Chase had been pushed into that corner. But not even to himself is he ready to admit knowing how much of that pushing hadn't been by Vogler.
3. The fact that Chase can stonewall his most invasive prying techniques is a little unsettling. A good challenge, mind you. But frustrating. He's accustomed to getting the measure of people quickly. Most of them are easy to pigeonhole and predict. After all this time, though, he still can't figure Chase out. He never knows what's really going on in that little blond head. He pushes the wrong buttons as often as he finds the right ones. It's refreshing to find someone who constantly surprises him. But very frustrating.
4. It takes a certain kind of lunacy to continuously offer up outlandish suggestions, risking the ridicule of colleagues on a regular basis. (It's called bravery.) It requires some form of madness to think so far outside the usual box that others aren't sure you even see the box anymore. (It's called intuition.) There's a degree of bloody-minded stubbornness needed to stick with a case when everyone else has given up. (That one's dedication.) Then there's the dangerous obsessive streak that makes someone keep caring no matter who they've lost or how many times they've been burned. (That one? It's known as compassion.) And it takes a special kind of masochist who can put all those things together successfully. (That's why he thinks Chase has the potential to be brilliant one day.)
5. Foreman may share his taste in shoes, but it's Chase that he sees following in his footsteps.