Has Dr. House’s tenure been revoked or expired? I thought he couldn’t be fired. Yet, in the latest episode, Cuddy made him choose between his job and his methadone.
Has the show mentioned how many years are left on his tenure?
Do they have tenure in hospitals? I thought it was only in education and the justification for it in schools would not apply in medicine.
Tenure doesn’t mean you can’t get fired. It means you can’t get fired without just cause. Abusing drug likely would be a just cause.
No, it never has.
My personal belief is that Cuddy personally, and the hospital, do bear some liability for what happened to his leg. He could have made things very unpleasant for them, although ultimately there would just have been a settlement.
I think he accepted the tenure partly as an unspoken agreement not to sue.
I don’t think that Cuddy personally bears any responsibility; my reading of “Three Stories” was that she was not involved in his case at the beginning of it (and why should she be? She was already Dean of Medicine). But she irrationally feels responsible for it.
From the Vogler arc it would seem that a full vote of the board is responsible to revoke tenure. That said, I highly doubt if there would be any votes to retain him if she spilled the beans that he’d gone from vicodin to methadone and misused it to the point of causing a pulmonary arrest.
It’s a teaching hospital.
I think that you’ve got the timeline of House’s association with Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital wrong. First, House has known Cuddy since he was a medical student at the University of Michigan and she was an undergraduate there. There was a one-night stand between the two of them at that point. They met again years later when House was brought to Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital for treatment of the infarction in his leg. House was working at some other hospital at that time. Cuddy was working at P-P H, but she wasn’t yet Dean of Medicine.
Years later House came to Cuddy for a job. House had already been fired from several hospitals for pulling the same sort of tricks that he uses at P-P H all the time now. Cuddy hired him for at least three reasons. First, she knows that he’s a brilliant diagnostician. Second, she knows that no other hospital will employ him because he constantly does illegal, unethical, dangerous things, so she can pay him quite cheaply relative to his ability. Third, she’s in love with him (and he’s in love with her), although they both refuse to admit it, even to themselves. Cuddy deliberately ignores most of the nonsense he gets away with because she wants to keep him working at P-P H.
Actually, I think Cuddy may be admitting it, and House might even have admitted it… each to herself or himself. But they can’t seem to admit to each other.
I think they’ve both fairly well admitted to one another but are adult and astute enough to realize that that way there be dragons.
Wait, what? I know it has been hinted at but never confirmed as far as I can remember. I can remember both of them pointedly refusing to confirm or deny that it ever happened. Did I miss an ep?
Cuddy was still an undergrad when House was in medical school. I seem to remember her saying that she’d slept with House once, but I thought she was just screwing with Cameron’s head.
I thought tenure didn’t expire. Doesn’t tenure guarantee lifetime employment and freedom from being fired without just cause? Certainly, House can be fired for gross misconduct. The recent methadone episode is a good example of that. But absent that, according to Wikipedia,
The bolded parts certainly apply to House, although it can be argued he won’t always give you his honest conclusion.
Real-life scenarios differ, but as FallenAngel stated, House’s tenure can only be revoked by a full vote of the board of directors. And of course, unless I missed anything, Cuddy and Wilson both have seats on that board.
It was in the episode “Top Secret” that the closest thing to an outright admission of the one-night stand between House and Cuddy appears:
Re: Timing out as a prof. It is a “standard practice” (i.e., most colleges are supposed to do it this way but I’ve seen way too many exceptions on my own) that a tenured Associate Professor may “time out” becoming a (full) Professor. After “X” years (4, 6 whatever), if you haven’t made Professor, then you’re stuck at Associate and that’s that. This is sort-of-ish like the common 6 years to get tenure but there you’re booted if you don’t make it.
The university-associated med schools I’ve seen, would give teaching and research faculty an actual appointment and title. So I’d see “Prof. House, MD” rather than just “House, MD” to denote such a person. Ordinary staff doctors would be on a contract, no tenure. It’s common to give out courtesy titles like “Adjunct Professor” but those carry no standing with regards to tenure or anything.
House once filled in teaching a class (the “3 Stories” episode). Has he otherwise taught? (Not counting the class room setting for filtering out last season’s candidates.) In my experience, a once off lecture doesn’t require an official or courtesy title of any sort.
ftg writes:
> It is a “standard practice” (i.e., most colleges are supposed to do it this way but
> I’ve seen way too many exceptions on my own) that a tenured Associate
> Professor may “time out” becoming a (full) Professor. After “X” years (4, 6
> whatever), if you haven’t made Professor, then you’re stuck at Associate and
> that’s that. This is sort-of-ish like the common 6 years to get tenure but there
> you’re booted if you don’t make it.
Here’s a counterexample from a professor I know. This is at a major university, incidentally. She was hired when she was 43 as an instructor. (She had done other things for some years before even beginning grad school.) She became a lecturer the next year at 44 when she finished her Ph.D. She became an assistant professor the next year at 45 (at which point she entered the tenure track, I assume). She got tenure and was promoted to associate professor six years later when she was 51. She was promoted to full professor fourteen years later when she was 65. (And, incidentally, she’s still working at 75.)
He’s supposed to be teaching the people on his team. I think a spot on his team is a fellowship position.