Cuddy also requires House to spend time treating patients in the hospital's bathroom sets
walk-in clinic; House's begrudging fulfillment of this duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with an eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention. Realizations made during some of the simple problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case.
Episodes frequently bathroom sets
feature the practice of entering a patient's house bathroom sets
with or without the owner's permission in order to search for clues that might suggest a certain pathology. The creator, David Shore, originally intended for the show to be a CSI-type show where the "germs were the suspects,"[8] but has since shifted much of the focus to the characters rather than concentrating solely on the environment.
Another large portion of the plot centers on House's abuse of Vicodin bathroom sets
and other drugs to manage pain stemming from an infarction in his quadriceps muscle some years earlier, which causes him to walk with a cane. The pain and substance abuse act to increase many of his more objectionable character traits while not impairing his medical acumen, which leads him to often self-medicate.
House is in many respects a medical Sherlock Holmes. This resemblance is evident in bathroomsets
various elements of the series' plot, such as House's reliance on psychology to solve a case, his reluctance to accept cases he does not find interesting, his drug addiction, home address (apartment 221B), playing of an instrument, relationship with Dr. James Wilson (a reference to Dr. John Watson), and his encounter with a crazed gunman credited as "Moriarty", which is the same name as Holmes' nemesis. Also, series creator David Shore has said that Dr. House's name is meant as a "subtle homage" to Sherlock Holmes (i.e., "homes").[9][10]
