Also, what were they threatening to sue the hospital for? I scored rather poorly in Torts, so perhaps I missed the day where it was explained that merely owning the situs of a bad business decision was actionable.
More than that, it appeared he was buying options. He could have bought call options on the stock and lost all that money when the stock went down. Certainly the news that the owner of the company was selling his stock – news that is required to be reported to the SEC – would send the stock dropping, making his options worthless.
Technically that’s not “Good” it’s still pretty much covering up murder by a doctor.
Look for Misty May digs for GOAL.
She’s a famous volley ball player- you won’t get specific hits, but if you just enter in misty may and goal you’ll get plenty of images.
My favorite part was that How The Grinch Stole Christmas wound up saving the patient.
Also, isn’t House going to get into very serious trouble with the SEC for shorting all those shares? It doesn’t get much more “insider information” than that.
When the dad was signing himself over to financial ruination by buying options already underwater I was hoping for this conclusion to the episode:
- The boy dies.
- Against all odds the options pay out and his huge wealth is multiplied several times over.
Still waiting for an episode where they’re all sitting doing the differential and come up with what it must be and House says “No, that’s not it.” Everybody asks why and he says “Because it’s our first answer.” He’s such a smart guy he must surely have noticed the pattern that every correct diagnosis first requires 3-5 incorrect near fatal diagnoses.
The only person that would seem to be liable for insider trading in this situation would be the father, who told House that he was bankrupting his company. Wiki’s article on insider trading: Insider trading - Wikipedia
I guess you might be able to make a case that House is “trading shares based on material non-public information in violation of some duty of trust”, but I think you’d have a hard time proving that the father was trying to keep the information non-public.
It was just so irritating how selfish the dad was. Seriously, you want all your money to just disappear? When you could give it away? You could even donate it to research the very disease they thought was killing your son? But you’d rather have it vanish from the economy entirely? Grr.
It does seem that from a karmic perspective, giving it away would have been better than screwing over your shareholders and putting all your employees out of work.
Yeah, that bothered me, which probably is why I couldn’t understand what he was doing (thanks for the explanations, btw!). If you think that your son’s illness is some sort of karmic retribution for you being rich and successful, then giving your money to charity or medical research or maybe even distributing it among your employees for their part in making you rich would make more sense,
I don’t know. It seemed like the guy viewed his “bad karma” as everything working out for him in business- always doing the smart, right decision- rather than just being wealthy. I guess he felt like he needed a massive, humiliating public failure to even out the balance.