if she won't let him babysit when he is not on drugs, then allowing him to practice as a physician when he is on drugs is definitely reckless of others' health.
To me it's a different situation - he practices with others around him including an entire team as well as Cuddy and Wilson as a second level set of House-babysitters(and wasn't Foreman put there specifically to report if House is being too crazy?). Also, medicine is where House shines, his history of being responsible for small creatures is mixed at best (remember Hector eating his drugs and the door being left open purposely). I think his attempt to ditch Rachel as soon Wilson arrived showed (at least to me) what a bad call it was on Cuddy's part.
Besides, what exactly do we know about the people who supervise our children on a daily basis (teachers, trainers, etc.)? Nothing. We assume they are responsible, but there's no saying whether they are.
I think we know a lot about them. Teachers are trained specifically in childcare and are run through a national and state fingerprint check and well as a TB test a drug test (at least in my state). They also practice under a hierarchical level of supervision with an evaluation system and lots of other teachers always knowing what is going on. So are all other people in the state that work with children, and those that don't have these qualifications can't be left with children unsupervised (like parent helpers in schools). Not that sometimes disasters don't happen, but they are despite the checks that are put in place, it is not that there is an absence of checks.
The real worry to me is not teachers, but exactly the worry that I had with the babysitting job given to house - babysitters are neither vetted, trained, nor supervised. Personally (and I realize I am putting my own standards on Cuddy here) I never let anyone babysit that I did not trust extremely well when the kids were too small to speak up. After that the babysitters I used all came highly recommended through other people I trusted. And at that time too I had at least three kids so they could all offer opinions and no baby was being watched alone.
I did give Cuddy a pass on this only because the show deals in crazy extremes on a routine basis that would never fly in real life, but when I realized she had arranged for him to babysit I shuddered anyway. It set my maternal alarm bells off I guess.
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Date: 2011-03-27 12:25 am (UTC)To me it's a different situation - he practices with others around him including an entire team as well as Cuddy and Wilson as a second level set of House-babysitters(and wasn't Foreman put there specifically to report if House is being too crazy?). Also, medicine is where House shines, his history of being responsible for small creatures is mixed at best (remember Hector eating his drugs and the door being left open purposely). I think his attempt to ditch Rachel as soon Wilson arrived showed (at least to me) what a bad call it was on Cuddy's part.
Besides, what exactly do we know about the people who supervise our children on a daily basis (teachers, trainers, etc.)? Nothing. We assume they are responsible, but there's no saying whether they are.
I think we know a lot about them. Teachers are trained specifically in childcare and are run through a national and state fingerprint check and well as a TB test a drug test (at least in my state). They also practice under a hierarchical level of supervision with an evaluation system and lots of other teachers always knowing what is going on. So are all other people in the state that work with children, and those that don't have these qualifications can't be left with children unsupervised (like parent helpers in schools). Not that sometimes disasters don't happen, but they are despite the checks that are put in place, it is not that there is an absence of checks.
The real worry to me is not teachers, but exactly the worry that I had with the babysitting job given to house - babysitters are neither vetted, trained, nor supervised. Personally (and I realize I am putting my own standards on Cuddy here) I never let anyone babysit that I did not trust extremely well when the kids were too small to speak up. After that the babysitters I used all came highly recommended through other people I trusted. And at that time too I had at least three kids so they could all offer opinions and no baby was being watched alone.
I did give Cuddy a pass on this only because the show deals in crazy extremes on a routine basis that would never fly in real life, but when I realized she had arranged for him to babysit I shuddered anyway. It set my maternal alarm bells off I guess.