I never got the impression that she was incompetent. It’s just that Goren is such an eccentric genius that she can’t always follow or keep up with him. I’m sure she’s a fine detective in her own right, by normal standards.
You’ve got to be kidding. Her face is set in a perpetual scowl. I can’t stand to watch any show that has her as a main character.
Mack and Meyer as in - Mack and Meyer for Hire.
I haven’t though of that show for a looong time, but when I think of incompetent TV characters they are the first to come to mind. Frustratingly incompetent.
Intergalactic Gladiator said:
Both of them would probably qualify.
Skald the Rhymer said:
Dating nurses in and of itself is not unethical, doing so while married is a little. Though it’s not his doctor ethics in that case, either.
Sigmagirl said:
But the thing is, these are all of House’s incredibly complex patients that nobody can figure out, that have already beat other doctors. These are atypical cases that have some indications of cancer but aren’t clear. So even a great cancer doctor is going to be puzzled. Since it’s House’s patient, not his own, House’s team are the ones chasing the diagnosis or treatment further, with assists from Wilson for the cancer stuff. You can’t use House’s patients as any criteria for evaluating performance.
House is not incompetent because he makes several wrong moves before he gets the right one. He’s always following the symptoms, unless he’s getting ahead of the symptoms. But he’s doing better than any other doctor out there. The cases are bizarre, so it’s only fair that House and his team are wrong. They don’t have enough information that early.
Now Cuddy is arguable. She keeps House around. But that’s the trade off - brilliant diagnostician and dignostics department, but it’s doctor House.
Lamia said:
Amusing premise, but unnecessary. All the NAZI’s are a bit pathetic, even the dreaded SS officers. Klink keeps his post because his escape record is perfect, he must be doing something right. And the prisoners work really hard to keep him there, because it makes their job easier.
If we’re allowing in comedically incompentents, then Randy Discher on Monk rates pretty highly. He’s always screwing up something in just about every episode. There have been a couple times they show him doing things okay like filling in for the Lt. running the department. I’ve had to explain that by assuming all the other detectives and cops are good at their job, know what to do, and sort things out for themselves enough that Randy can sit back and watch and think he’s really good at that job.
Ross Geller seems to be awful as a teacher, and his research keeps on being discredited.
Nope – Prison Break, The Mentalist, The Craft, Cherish…I absolutely love her. Oh well…
He also ventured onto shaky ethical ground by dating one of his students. Worse still, he was so clueless that he thought such behavior was merely discouraged. As he learns from other faculty members, he could actually have been fired over it.
Have there really been countless times? I only remember one show where he’d incorrectly diagnosed a patient, who then wanted money or a settlement because he’d quit his job and sold his house and given away all his possessions in anticipation of dying soon.
I think I remember him dating a patient - or was it just flirting?
Henry kept morale high, had a good record in saving wounded soldiers, and managed to keep his two best hard to manage surgeons working at top capacity. Not being regular Army, he didn’t give a crap about getting promoted or sticking to the rules.
He was a bit incompetent about picking which plane to get on, however.
Benson Honeydew isn’t that great an inventor either, and has the Swedish Chef ever finished a recipe?
I can’t answer the first question without going back and watching all the DVDs. Pooooor me. I’ll let you know when I’ve finished the assignment. 
For the second question: He *moved in *with the patient.
Yeah, this sounds like more research is needed. A *House *marathon is definitely in order.
Are you referring to Cutthroat Bitch? She was a doctor (who eventually became a patient, but during their relationship).
The patient being referred to was a cancer patient, not Amber.
Her name was Grace. She was dying, and Wilson thought she’d need some help around the house. So he moved in. It was a romantic relationship, though.
Season 2, Episode 19, House vs. God.
IIRC, it was mentioned that with “normal” cases that were not X-Files, Mulder (and Scully) have a very high closure rate. Somewhere in the 70s? Maybe higher? The problem is that we are very rarely shown a “normal” case in the show! Mulder himself was supposed to be a top rate profiler and many were disappointed that he took a dead end job like the x-files in the first place.
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Peter Morris said:
Ross Geller seems to be awful as a role, and his believability as a character keeps on being discredited.
infinitii said:
psychonaut said:
She’s got something goofy with her cheeks. Didn’t notice in Prison Break, but can’t escape in The Mentalist.
BiblioCat said:
Have there really been countless times? I only remember one show where he’d incorrectly diagnosed a patient, who then wanted money or a settlement because he’d quit his job and sold his house and given away all his possessions in anticipation of dying soon.
That was the only episode where he had given a patient a cancer diagnosis that was bogus. However, in several episodes, House and the team will have Wilson look at some squiggly X-ray/CAT-scan/MRI and say “It might be cancer.” In those cases, he is non-committal.
Basically, the information they have is indeterminate, so he is as baseless for a diagnosis as the rest of House’s team.
Because it is House, they have treated for cancer and then learned it is not cancer numerous times, but that isn’t Wilson’s fault.
As for dating patients, there was also the very first patient Wilson brings House that he claims is a cousin but doesn’t get her name correct. Though technically she wasn’t his patient, nor was she a patient when he dated her.
Henry Blake was either incompetent as a base commander on his own or highly competent to realize he needed efficient staff to handle the business and his job was keeping the army off the backs of his doctors.
Bringing it all together, that first patient was Robin Tunney.
Well, of course we didn’t see the non-X-Files cases, any more than we generally see Batman catching muggers and kicking the crap out of them in 10 seconds.
Uninterested is not the same as incompetent. And that was only in the period when the book came along. Outside of that, he did a good job.
You’re all wrong. Yemana was the worst. Lousy filing, lousy coffee. And how often was he sent out on a case? There must’ve been a reason for that.