Post by Lisa Cuddy on Jan 17, 2010 15:44:33 GMT -5
Dr. Lisa Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine, hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and specializes in endocrinology. She often has to handle House's outlandish requests, and is usually left to deal with the consequences of his erratic behavior. One of her tasks is to force House to complete his required weekly duty at the free outpatient clinic. Her position often requires her to make extremely difficult moral and ethical decisions regarding patient care (particularly in situations where House insists that highly dangerous and often illegal procedures are a patient's only chance of survival).
Not much is known about Dr. Cuddy and her own personal history except for the fact that she is Jewish (something that House often remarks on). She had wanted to be a doctor since the age of 12, and graduated from medical school at age 25 from the University of Michigan as second in her class. This was her first interaction with House -- as he was already known as a legend during his time there. She then became the first woman and second youngest chief of medicine ever at age 32 at PPTH.
While Dr. Cuddy is a career-driven woman, through House's sleuthing tactics it was discovered that she wants to have a child. House discovered that her one of her "dates" with Wilson was actually an audition for him as a sperm donor. When confronted about it, she admitted to wanting to have a child before it was too late. House agreed to keep her secret, and assisted her with fertility injections, as well as helping her screen potential sperm donors (all of whom House subsequently rejected).
During a particularly difficult situation involving divorced parents questioning treatment of their little girl, Cuddy became a medical proxy for the child and her suggested treatment failed. House's anger at Cuddy boiled over, spurred by both experiencing Vicodin withdrawal and seeing the increasingly sick child. He yelled at her "it's a good thing you failed to become a mother because you'd suck at it!" Cuddy broke down crying, admitting to Wilson that she had undergone artificial insemination and all the attempts failed.
She questioned her potential abilities as a mother, because she didn't know how to deal with this sick child and comfort her appropriately.
