What Happens When You Make House Wear A Doctors Coat? | House M.D.

Cuddy gets increasingly frustrated with House when a major chairman Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his biotech venture and House has no intention of following orders.

Season 1 Episode 14 "Control"
Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler donates $100 million to Princeton-Plainsboro, officially becoming the new Chairman of the Board. Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his biotech venture and also plans to eliminate House's financially draining department for good. Meanwhile, a businesswoman (Sarah Clarke) has it all – perfect life, perfect body, perfect job – until she finds herself inexplicably paralyzed. When he diagnoses her condition, House must risk his job and his medical license to save her.

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[PenDragon-hglg]

You know a guy's bad when House is the moral backbone

[Wooktent]

"He should get a say in what we do with his $100, 000, 000."
The point of a donation is that he already knows what you're doing and wants you to keep doing it. Not control what you're doing.

[aditee]

You never threaten House's Cuddy and you certainly never threaten House's Wilson.

[lodestar]

"Invests" $100M into this place, and has never heard of their star doc?

[NFrk]

It says a lot about your character when you blackmail a hospital with your $100 million dollar donation.
It says a lot about the hospital to let it happen.

[PhantomJavelin]

"This donation does come with one string"
We call those bribes.

[ICavalcadeI]

Shouldn't he have invested in research instead of a teaching hospital

[sedawk]

“He saves one patient per week” - the meta is strong with the writers.

[quetzalthegamer]

For those who are curious, it's not required for doctors to wear the lab coats at all times. It is, quite literally, a LAB coat, which means it's primary usage is in a setting where the clothes may be splattered with a hazardous material of some kind. It's like a full-body apron, not a uniform item.

[Beaver_Monday]

Vogler: "I care about saving lives"

Also Vogler: "if House doesn't wear a lab coat me and my money is gone"

[gothivore]

A “ Donation” more like a sale

A Donation is only a donation if it comes with no strings. The second there’s conditions it’s no longer a donation.

[sparkynicole]

I remember first listening to Voglers little speech thinking that it was technically very well written. It had pathos, humor, the little twist in the middle, and the lesson/conclusion. It’s very polished and overall simple, but did what it was intended to do. First impression of vogler was that he was intelligent and possibly manipulative.

[thefaithslayer]

"I want to run this (hospital) like a business."

The failure of the American health care system in a single sentence.

[jesuschristislord]

So he took 20k and lied about its used. Killed his relationship with his dad, never fixed the relationship, then went to gloat in his dads old age. What a guy

[KaiserAfini]

"He is Dr House, our top diagnostician. He lives in constant pain due to a condition in his leg. Because he has solved many difficult cases with his work, plus as a concession to his discomfort, I gave him permission to not wear a lab coat while not conducting direct exams" That would have been a perfectly reasonable response that would not have offended the new chairman, why didn't Cuddy use it ?

[Northreyar]

''I'm gonna run this place like a business''
The thing no Hospital or School director ever wants to hear.

[KioneH]

this guy was really willing to kill every single one of houses future patients over a coat

[enriquemartinaycart]

"If there is a disease out there killing people, I´m giving you a blank check"
2 minutes later:
"It´s a financial blackhole, cost $3 million a year to treat only 1 patient per week."

I guess coherence is not required to become a billionaire.

[KevinSun]

People hate Vogler but he’s basically a representative of the US Healthcare Industry.

[dudethmcgraff]

What sucks is that he strikes you as a great character at first, then his colors start to show through the moment his authority is challenged.