Monday, December 14, 2009

A Break in the Hippocratic Oath


When a doctor receives his license, he vows to follow the Hippocratic Oath. This means that a doctor will do no wrong, harm no person. But in “The Tyrant” of House MD Season 6, Chase breaks that oath. He is faced with curing an African dictator who was committing genocide on a minority of his country. When Chase and Cameron talk about possible diagnoses, he says that he can get the blood to prove something. That blood was taken from a patient in the morgue, leading to misdiagnoses and ultimately the death of Dibala the Dictator.

This action leads to a rift within his marriage to Dr. Cameron. In the episode “Teamwork,” Cameron decides to leave the diagnostics team and her husband, Chase. The murder is no longer suspicious but not only did he murder someone, he caused his wife to leave him.

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