Anyone who caught “House” — still one of the best medical dramas ever made — during its original 2004-to-2012 run likely has a soft spot for Hugh Laurie‘s cranky physician, Dr. Gregory House. Turns out, the nihilist fond of cutting down colleagues with caustic remarks is indirectly based on a real person.
Show creator David Shore has spoken about how House is based on Sherlock Holmes, who, in turn, was based on a real 19th-century Scottish surgeon and forensic science pioneer named Joseph Bell. Bell was also a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, who actually taught “Sherlock Holmes” author Arthur Conan Doyle…
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