Re: House MD **may contain spoilers**
My God, *NO ONE* cared that Max was going to go through elective invasive surgery without proper counselling?
I think it all came down to a matter of perspective. House's patient (and Cameron's patient, in turn) was Hannah. Their #1 priority was saving Hannah's life. By telling Max there was a possibility that Hannah might dump her, Max could've changed her mind, therefore killing House's patient. As House said, "you tell Max, Hannah dies. How is that more ethical?" House obligatioin was Hannah, not Max. Max goes along with the donation of her liver, and something
might go wrong. Max doesn't go along with it and Hannah dies
for sure. Would you be willing to let someone die so another person can be aware of a truth that's uncertain at best? I wouldn't.
I had to side with House on this one. When you're a doctor, you have to do everything to make sure your patient walks out of there alive. We've seen House do worse things than this (give a patient an STD if it means he gets a new heart, etc). Besides, Cameron wasn't 100% sure that Hannah was going to leave Max. It was House who
assumed Hannah was going to dump Max. Cameron ran on that assumption. Hannah merely said she was getting tired of Max. She never said that was it for their relationship. She never said she was cheating, or planning to move out, or that she'd even taken an active role in the break up. This was a woman who hadn't slept in 10 days, who was under an enourmous amount of stress, and had a girlfriend who was on top of her 24/7. Anyone, under these circumstances, might admit they're getting tired of their significant other. Cameron didn't take any of this into consideration. She didn't know
anything about Hannah and Max and their relationship. For all we know, Max and Hannah go through something like this every so often. Every couple goes through those periods where they claim they're sick of each other. They get over it and move on.
What Cameron saw was Evil Hannah planning to dump Max. Cameron then whips out her moral cards and deems Hannah an evil, evil BAD person, so bad that Cameron feels she has the right to actually
hurt Hannah (she was hurting Hannah on purpose when she shoved the tube down her throat), because Hannah did wrong. I'm sorry, but that's not ethical or moral. That's plain hypocrisy. She did the same thing to the biker in Spin. She seems to enjoy physically hurting people who she feels have done wrong. That's plain disturbing.
What bothered me about Cameron's behavior was, she was more than willing to let Hannah die because Hannah admitted she was growing tired of Max, and in Cameron's world that is a punishable sin. Cameron cared more about Max, because she felt Max was being betrayed, than she cared about her patient, who she should've made her priority. Doctors don't have the right to sit on a moral chair and judge every patient that walks by. Cameron doesn't have the right to hurt her patient and possibly take her life away because she feels her patient has commited a moral sin. No one decides who gets to live or die, especially when said person doesn't have all the facts.
The saddest part was in the end, the real victim was Hannah. Cameron might've realized this, if she hadn't been too busy judging her or whining about how Foreman stole her paper.
Max's advocate was actually Cuddy. Cuddy didn't know what was happening, and told Max, "in time, we learn things that might cause us to change our minds, and you need to think about all these things because there's a big chance you might die on the table." I agree that as Max's advocate, Cuddy should've found out the truth, but House told her it wasn't anything medical. In fact, he made it sound like it was nothing at all, which should've tipped Cuddy off, but even if Cuddy had known, I wonder if she would've told Max. I know if it was me, I'd feel uncertain about telling a woman something that again, isn't 100% factual, but that would for sure end up killing a human being. Again, it's a matter of perspective, I thought saving Hannah was more important.