halfway through SEASON 1..

Dr. House is soooo cool, made me wanna be just like him (the brilliant/intelligent and bla bla).. return my faith into medicine after reading HOUSE (co-incidental??) OF GOD and since, medicine is not my top-of-the-list career..

and somehow, i got the feeling that HOUSE is anti-ER.. it's seems fascinating by how this series is really on one-man show..You just don't invest too much in any one doctor while watching a show like "E.R." Your favorite might just walk away (like Dr. Ross) or die on you (like Dr. Greene) or go away and come back after everyone's forgotten her (Dr. Lewis). On the other hand, a particularly unlikable doctor will either be dismembered by a stray helicopter blade (Dr. Romano), or they'll find some way to make the character more likable - Dr. Kerry Weaver was the first character on TV ever to be 'softened' by turning lesbian. At least that's what Dr. House would say if he watched "E.R." instead of daytime soap operas.

There are other characters on the show, including a trio of young doctors on House's team, but don't expect any of them to become his mentor and end up stealing the show. They, along with everyone else surrounding Dr. House, spend most of their time responding to him, and the rest of their time responding to the Impossible-to-Diagnose Sick Person of the Week, who usually is too ill to do very much acting. The show pulls off a kind of dramatic sleight-of-hand that makes it feel like Dr. House is in every scene when he actually has less face time than most title characters.