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Olivia Wilde
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Olivia Wilde is an American actress, model, producer, director, activist, and entrepreneur. She is well known for her role as Dr. Remy Thirteen Hadley on the award winning television series House and her roles in Alpha Dog, Tron, Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens, Her, Drinking Buddies and she starred in HBOs rock n roll drama series Vinyl. Wilde was born in New York City and grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington and her mother, Leslie Cockburn, is an American-born 60 Minutes producer and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is also a journalist and he was born in London, to English parents, and was raised in Ireland. Wildes uncles, Alexander and Patrick Cockburn, also worked as journalists and her older sister, Chloe Cockburn, is a civil rights attorney in New York. Her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer, her half-cousin, Stephanie Flanders, is a journalist and she also spent her summers in Ardmore in Co. Her ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Manx, and Scottish, she is also of 1/64th Sephardi Jewish descent through Ralph Bernal, Wilde has said that as a result of her parents occupations, she has a strong journalistic streak and is really critical and analytical. Both her parents were prominent in the Washington, D. C. social scene and she had writer Christopher Hitchens as a babysitter. She wanted to become an actress since age two, for a short time, Wildes family had a house in Guilford, Vermont. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D. C. as well as Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Wilde was accepted to Bard College but deferred her enrollment three times in order to pursue acting. She then studied acting at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, during her early career, Wilde appeared in The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, Conversations with Other Women and Turistas. She became known for her role on The O. C. as Alex Kelly. In 2007, Wilde was part of the ensemble cast of the short-lived NBC mid-season drama The Black Donnellys, Wilde played Jenny Reilly, an Irish girl who grew up with the Donnellys and becomes romantically involved with the familys second son, Tommy. Also in 2007, Wilde appeared in the play Beauty on the Vine, Wilde joined the cast of the Fox medical drama House in September 2007, making her first appearance in the episode The Right Stuff. She played Dr. Remy Hadley, nicknamed Thirteen, a secretive and bisexual young internist with Huntingtons disease, in August 2011, it was announced Wilde would be leaving House to pursue her film career. She left House a few later, in the episode Charity Case. In May 2012, Wilde returned to House for the two episodes, Holding On and Everybody Dies. Wilde also appeared in the 2009 comedy film Year One as Princess Inanna, alongside Jack Black, in 2010, she starred in Disneys Tron, Legacy as Quorra, the trusted friend and protector of Kevin Flynn
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Physician
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Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself vary around the world. Degrees and other qualifications vary widely, but there are common elements, such as medical ethics requiring that physicians show consideration, compassion. Around the world the term refers to a specialist in internal medicine or one of its many sub-specialties. This meaning of physician conveys a sense of expertise in treatment by drugs or medications and this term is at least nine hundred years old in English, physicians and surgeons were once members of separate professions, and traditionally were rivals. Henry VIII granted a charter to the London Royal College of Physicians in 1518 and it was not until 1540 that he granted the Company of Barber/Surgeons its separate charter. In the same year, the English monarch established the Regius Professorship of Physic at the University of Cambridge, newer universities would probably describe such an academic as a professor of internal medicine. Hence, in the 16th century, physic meant roughly what internal medicine does now, currently, a specialist physician in the United States may be described as an internist. Another term, hospitalist, was introduced in 1996, to describe US specialists in internal medicine who work largely or exclusively in hospitals, such hospitalists now make up about 19% of all US general internists, who are often called general physicians in Commonwealth countries. In such places, the more general English terms doctor or medical practitioner are prevalent, in Commonwealth countries, specialist pediatricians and geriatricians are also described as specialist physicians who have sub-specialized by age of patient rather than by organ system. Around the world, the term physician and surgeon is used to describe either a general practitioner or any medical practitioner irrespective of specialty. This usage still shows the meaning of physician and preserves the old difference between a physician, as a practitioner of physic, and a surgeon. The term may be used by state medical boards in the United States of America, in modern English, the term physician is used in two main ways, with relatively broad and narrow meanings respectively. This is the result of history and is often confusing and these meanings and variations are explained below. In the United States and Canada, the term physician describes all medical practitioners holding a professional medical degree, the American Medical Association, established in 1847, as well as the American Osteopathic Association, founded in 1897, both currently use the term physician to describe members. However, the American College of Physicians, established in 1915, does not, its title uses physician in its original sense. A physician trained in the United States has either a Doctor of Medicine degree, all boards of certification now require that physicians demonstrate, by examination, continuing mastery of the core knowledge and skills for a chosen specialty. Recertification varies by particular specialty between every seven and every ten years, graduates of osteopathic medical schools in the United States should not be confused with osteopaths, who are trained in the European and Commonwealth nations. Their training is similar to physical therapy and they are not licensed to prescribe medications or perform surgeries, also in the United States, the American Podiatric Medical Association defines podiatrists as physicians and surgeons that fall under the department of surgery in hospitals
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Eric Foreman
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Eric Foreman, M. D. is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is portrayed by Omar Epps, a neurologist, Foreman was a member of Dr. Gregory Houses handpicked team of specialists at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospitals Diagnostic Medicine Department. He was hired by House merely three days prior to the pilot episode. Foreman attended Columbia University as an undergraduate before matriculating at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in the pilot episode, he mentioned he had a 4.0 GPA through medical school, a fact confirmed by Dr. James Wilson in Histories. Little is known about Foremans past, although it has suggested that his family was quite underprivileged. Foreman was also a juvenile delinquent who once burglarized houses. Although he has an estranged relationship with his parents, the show depicts them as loving. By the end of the series, Foreman has become the Dean of Medicine and one of the few people House trusts intimately, Foreman nods, sits back, and smiles, having finally become one of the few people to earn Houses trust. In the episode Euphoria, Part 1, Foreman became infected with a mysterious illness, another patient, infected with the same condition, experiences a very painful death in front of Foreman. After treatment, it appears Foreman is cured of the meningoencephalitis, although his brain had some confusion between the left and right side of the brain, he is in recovery. Upon his return from recovery, Foremans memory seemed to have impaired, as he struggled to remember key medical concepts. In the next two episodes, however, he seems to be able to again keep up with his fellow doctors when coming up with medical theories. When Michael Tritter offers Foreman an opportunity to win early parole for his drug-addicted, incarcerated brother, Marcus, Foreman left without a word following this tirade. In the episode The Right Stuff, Cuddy reveals that Foreman took a job at New York Mercy running the diagnostics department, the only difference is that since House is a known brilliant doctor, he has earned the trust that Foreman has not yet earned. Cuddy then offers Foreman his old job at Princeton-Plainsboro, claiming she needs someone to help control House, at first he declines the offer, but ultimately he accepts following an extensive series of failed job interviews. He finds that his insubordination at New York Mercy has led the community to conclude that House has trained him to be a loose cannon with no regard for authority or procedure. A House Lite, as Dr. Cuddy describes him and he rejoins the department in the episode Mirror Mirror, serving as Cuddys eyes and ears on Houses new team. In Season 5s episode Let Them Eat Cake, Foreman runs a Huntingtons drug trial, in the next episode, Joy to the World, Foreman and Thirteen kiss passionately, but in the following episode, she expresses her wish to keep some distance
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Doctor of Medicine
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The Doctor of Medicine is a terminal medical degree for practitioners of medicine. The meaning of the varies between different countries. In countries that follow the United States system, the M. D. denotes a first professional degree awarded upon initial graduation from medical school. In those countries, the title of the equivalent first professional degree is Bachelor of Medicine, in 1703, the University of Glasgows first medical graduate, Samuel Benion, was issued with the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine. North American medical schools switched to the tradition of the ancient universities of Scotland, the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York was the first American university to grant the MD degree instead of the MB. Early medical schools in North America that granted the Doctor of Medicine degrees were Columbia, Penn, Harvard, Maryland and these first few North American medical schools that were established were founded by physicians and surgeons who had been trained in England and Scotland. A feminine form, Doctress of Medicine or Medicinae Doctrix, has also used by the New England Female Medical College in Boston in the 1860s. The MD degree is earned in four years. Following the awarding of the MD, physicians who wish to practice in the United States are required to complete at least one internship year and those who wish to further specialize in areas such as cardiology or interventional radiology then complete a fellowship. Depending upon the chosen field, residencies and fellowships involve an additional three to eight years of training after obtaining the MD. This can be lengthened with additional research years, which can last one, the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine or DO degree allows similar practice in the United States and Canada to the M. D. degree and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine are fully licensed physicians. The M. D. degree is awarded only by the 137 Medical Schools in the United States, similarly, M. D. s must attend M. D. rated residency and fellowship programs while D. O. s can attend either type of program. The American M. D. degree is recognized by most countries in the world. While the D. O. degree is getting more widely accepted in countries as fully licensed physicians. In Canada, the MD is the medical degree required to practice medicine. McGill University Faculty of Medicine is the medical school in Canada that continues to award the MD. MDCM is from the Latin Medicinae Doctorem et Chirurgiae Magistrum meaning doctor of medicine, upon graduation, students enter into a residency phase of training. Combined medical and research training is offered through programs granting MD-PhD, the National Institutes of Health through its Medical Scientist Training Program funds MD-PhD training programs at many universities
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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf
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Gregory House
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Gregory House, M. D. commonly referred to by his surname House, is the title character of the American medical drama series House. Houses character has described as a misanthrope, cynic, narcissist, and curmudgeon. He is the character to appear in all 177 episodes and. In the series, the characters unorthodox diagnostic approaches, radical therapeutic motives, House is also often portrayed as lacking sympathy for his patients, a practice that allots him time to solve pathological enigmas. The character is inspired by Sherlock Holmes. This addiction is one of the many parallels to Holmes. Throughout the series run, the character received positive reviews and was included in several best lists. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called House the most electrifying character to hit television in years, Gregory House was born to John and Blythe House on June 11,1959, or May 15,1959. House is a brat, his father served as a Marine Corps aviator. House presumably picked up his affinity for languages during this period and shows a level of understanding of Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Mandarin. One place in which his father was stationed was Egypt, where House developed a fascination with archaeology and treasure-hunting, another station was Japan, where, at age 14, House discovered his vocation after a rock climbing incident with his friend. He witnessed the respect given to a doctor who solved the case no other doctor could. He also spent some time in the Philippines, where he received dental surgery, House loves his mother but hates his father, who he claims has an insane moral compass, and deliberately attempts to avoid both parents. At one point, House tells a story of his parents leaving him with his grandmother, however, he later confesses it was his father who abused him. Due to this abuse, House never believed John House was his father, at the age of 12. In the season 5 episode Birthmarks, House discovers that his father was not his father after he ordered a DNA test that compared his DNA against Johns. After a second DNA test was performed in the season 8 episode Love Is Blind, House discovers the man he thought was his biological father, the identity of his real father remains unknown. House first attended Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate, before fully committing to medicine as his discipline, he considered getting a Ph. D. in Physics, researching dark matter
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House's Head
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Houses Head is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of House and the eighty-fifth episode overall. It was the first part of the season four finale. Co-written by several House producers and directed by Greg Yaitanes, Houses Head premiered on May 12,2008 on Fox, the episode revolves around Dr. Gregory House, who, after being involved in a bus accident, vaguely remembers seeing someone who is going to die. House tries to back his steps throughout the episode to find out the identity of this person. A woman, who claims to be the answer, guides House through hallucinations about the crash, the episode eventually ends in a cliffhanger. 14.84 million American viewers watched the broadcasting of Houses Head, the episode, and in particular a strip tease scene involving Cuddy, gained positive responses. The episode was submitted for five Primetime Emmy Awards, from two nominations followed. The episode opens in a club where Dr. Gregory House is getting a lap dance. Drunk, dazed, and suffering from a wound, House has a short disjointed vision. When he leaves the club, he sees that the bus he was on crashed, Chase performs a medical hypnosis on House to stimulate his memory, during this, House finds himself getting drunk in a bar, alone. While the team investigates several pathologies to fit the bus drivers condition, House overdoses on his Vicodin and he finds himself back on the bus, where he sees a woman who was not on the bus. However, before House can speak to her, Wilson awakens House to do an MRI on him, when House returns to the bus hallucination, Cuddy is with him. As they discuss the bus drivers possible diseases, House realizes they are in his head, Cuddy complies, but just before she takes off her bra, she notes she is distracting House, and stops. The woman from Houses earlier hallucination returns and introduces herself as the answer and she tells House to look at the bus drivers shuffling feet, which House believes to indicate Parkinsons disease. When the bus needs to be intubated due to a possible clot from a pulmonary embolism. He reasons that an air bubble, that got accidentally injected into the bloodstream through the gums. The bubble is extracted, and the patient is saved, in a renewed attempt to retrieve his memory, House has his team reenact the bus crash. House overdoses on physostigmine, a medication against Alzheimers disease, the answer reminds House that since he values reason above everything else, there must be one for her presence in his mind
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AfterEllen.com and TheBacklot.com
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AfterEllen. com, founded in April 2002, is a website that focuses on the portrayal of lesbian and bisexual women in the media. TheBacklot. com, its site for gay and bisexual men, was launched in January 2005 under the name AfterElton. com. AfterEllen. com was founded by Sarah Warn, and AfterElton. com by Warn, Michael Jensen, Warn initially served as the editor in chief of both websites. Michael Jensen became editor in chief of AfterElton. com in November 2005, karman Kregloe became the editor in chief of AfterEllen. com in November 2009 and Dennis Ayers took over as editor in chief of AfterElton in 2011. Both websites were bought in 2006 by the television channel Logo. AfterEllen was sold in 2014 to Evolve Media, owner of CraveOnline, the site considers television, film, music, books, and celebrity news. It publishes articles, regular columns, reviews, recaps of television shows with lesbian and bisexual characters or subtextual content, and maintains several blogs. More recently, weekly video blogs, often called vlogs, have become a key part of AfterEllen. com, the popular of which include Brunch With Bridget, Lesbian Love. The site also features popular web series, such as the Streamy winning and it is the top website for LGBT women, reaching over 700,000 readers a month as of 2008. In March 2008, it was named one of the worlds 50 most powerful blogs by British newspaper The Observer for its irreverent look at how the community is represented in the media. In October 2014, it was announced that AfterEllen was acquired by Evolve Media, in September 2016 Evolve announced that AfterEllen would no longer publish editorial content but would continue as a platform for freelance writers. TheBacklot. com launched under the name AfterElton. com, the site is not affiliated with Elton John, although its original name refers to the milestone for gay men when John publicly came out. The site considers television, film, music, books, and it publishes articles, regular columns, reviews, recaps of television shows with gay and bisexual characters, and maintains several blogs, including the Meme by Ed Kennedy. Co-founder Michael Jensen was Editor in Chief from 2005 until September 25,2011, on January 12,2012, the site announced that Louis Virtel had been hired as its West Coast entertainment editor. Dennis Ayers announced on January 31,2013 that AfterElton would be changing its name to TheBacklot. com in April. The change was motivated by a desire to separate the site from its AfterEllens little brother origin and to reflect the general focus on Hollywood. The relaunch under the new name took place on April 17,2013, on June 29,2015, the site announced that it would be merging with NewNowNext, another LGBT-themed entertainment website owned by Logo. TheBacklot name will be discontinued, and Dan Avery will be editor-in-chief of the combined site, the website has not been updated since June 2016
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Wetpaint
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Wetpaint is an internet company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Function. Wetpaint was originally called Wikisphere, and begun as a wiki farm and it was co-founded in October 2005 by Ben Elowitz, who had previously co-founded the online jewelry retailer Blue Nile Inc. In December 2005, the company and site were renamed to Wetpaint, in October 2005, the company received its initial A round of venture capital funding of USD5.25 million from Trinity Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures. Wetpaint closed a USD9.5 million B round of funding in January 2007, Wetpaint closed a Series C round of venture capital funding of USD25 million in May 2008. Investors included Accel Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Frazier Technology Ventures, Wetpaint was named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. In March 2008, Wetpaint added social networking features, in July 2009, Wetpaint laid off 15 of their 56 employees. An additional 9 employees, including co-founders Kevin Flaherty and Alex Berg, were laid off in December, the company also decided to refocus the website on professionally created content. Both steps were taken as a result of declining online ad revenue, the wiki farm was renamed Wikis by Wetpaint, and was moved to the domain wetpaintcentral. com. In December 2011, the announced the Wetpaint Social Distribution System. In December 2013, Wetpaint was acquired by Viggle, an entertainment rewards platform, which was shortly renamed to its former name, Function
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BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed is an American internet media company based in New York City. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 as a lab, focusing on tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti. Kenneth Lerer, co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post, started as a co-founder, the company has grown into a global media and technology company providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, DIY, animals and business. In late 2011, Ben Smith of Politico was hired as editor-in-chief to expand the site into serious journalism, long-form journalism, the website has met criticism over accusations of plagiarism. While working at the Huffington Post, Peretti started BuzzFeed as a project, in 2006. In the beginning, BuzzFeed employed no writers or editors, just an algorithm to cull stories from around the web that were showing stirrings of virality, perettis first hire was Peggy Wang, whom hed taught as a student at a private high school in New Orleans. The site initially launched an instant messaging client, BuzzBot, which messaged users a link to popular content, the messages were sent based on algorithms which examined the links that were being quickly disseminated, scouring through the feeds of hundreds of blogs that were aggregating them. Later, the site began spotlighting the most popular links that BuzzBot found, Peretti hired curators to help describe the content that was popular around the web. In 2011, Peretti hired Politicos Ben Smith, who earlier had achieved attention as a political blogger. In August 2014, BuzzFeed raised $50 million from the capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The site was valued at around $850 million by Andreessen Horowitz. BuzzFeed generates its revenue through native advertising that matches its own editorial content. Buzzfeed also uses its familiarity with media to target conventional advertising through other channels. In December 2014, growth equity firm General Atlantic acquired $50M in secondary stock of the company, in August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $200 million equity investment in Buzzfeed. In October 2016, BuzzFeed raised $200 million from Comcast’s TV and movie arm NBCUniversal, BuzzFeeds first acquisition was in 2012 when the company purchased Kingfish Labs, a startup founded by Rob Fishman, initially focused on optimizing Facebook ads. On October 28,2014, BuzzFeed announced its next acquisition, the Torando team was to become BuzzFeeds first data engineering team. BuzzFeed produces daily content, in which the work of staff reporters, contributors, syndicated cartoon artists, popular formats on the website include lists, videos, and quizzes. In that year, BuzzFeed deleted over 4000 early posts, apparently because, as passed, they looked stupider and stupider
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Amber Volakis
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This page is a comprehensive listing and detailing of the various characters who appear, from time to time, in the television series House. Dr. Gregory House – Department Head, Diagnostic Medicine, Dr. Gregory House is a rebellious diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology. Dr. House utterly lacks a bedside manner and prefers to direct contact with his patients however possible. Due to an infarction in his thigh, House lost a substantial portion of the muscle in his upper leg. As a result, House is also forced to deal with constant physical pain, House is eventually replaced by Chase after he fakes his death in the series finale, Everybody Dies. Dr. Lisa Cuddy – Administration, Dean of Medicine, endocrinologist, Dr. Cuddy attended the University of Michigan for graduate studies, where she first met Gregory House. She has the distinction of being one of the few characters on the show who can match wits with the silver-tongued Dr. House in conversation and she often is left to pick up the pieces of Houses questionable medical practices. She is also one of the few people who can stand Houses hostile manner, strange requests, although she frequently criticizes Houses methods, she does trust his decisions to be in the best interest of his patients. House has described her as a second rate doctor, in season seven, Cuddy and House start dating but she eventually breaks up with him when he starts using Vicodin again during her health scare. She leaves the hospital after House drives his car into her house, Dr. James Wilson – Department Head, Oncology. Dr. Wilson is Houses best friend, Wilson is very popular and well-respected by both his colleagues and his patients, making his close friendship with the anti-social House especially puzzling to the other hospital employees. Wilson claims that his job and his stupid, screwed up friendship with House are the two most important things to him and he, along with Cuddy, usually finds himself aiding and abetting Houses Vicodin addiction and his very eccentric methods. In Season 8, Wilson is diagnosed with cancer, Wilson is said to have 5 months to live. Wilson is one of the people to know that House faked his death. Dr. Eric Foreman – Assistant Department Head, Diagnostic Medicine, neurologist, of all the members of Houses staff, it is strongly implied that Foreman performed better than the other fellows academically throughout college and medical school. However, during the pilot, House tells Foreman that a factor in his hiring was the fact that he was a former juvenile delinquent who once stole cars and had street smarts. As a result, he voices his disapproval of Houses rebellious methods. Foreman resigned at the end of Season 3, feeling that the time he spent with House
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Blank expression
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A blank expression is a facial expression characterized by neutral positioning of the facial features, implying a lack of strong emotion. It may be caused by a lack of emotion, depression, boredom or slight confusion, a deliberately-induced blank expression meant to conceal ones emotions is also known as a poker face, referring to the common practice of maintaining ones composure when playing the card game poker. The term poker face was used outside the game of poker by American sportswriters in the 1920s to describe a competitor who appeared unaffected by stressful situations and it is often used by mental health professionals to describe certain patient behaviors, and by marketers and salespeople during business negotiations. Thousand-yard stare Deadpan Poker face Catatonia Resting bitch face Highway hypnosis Jan Hargrave, Poker Face, The Art of Analyzing Poker Tells. Poker Face in Mental Health Practice, A Primer on Deception Analysis and Detection
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James Wilson (House)
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Dr. James Evan Wilson, M. D. is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is played by Robert Sean Leonard, the character first appears in the shows pilot episode when he introduces a medical case to Dr. Gregory House. Wilson is Dr. Houses only true friend, and frequently provides him with consultations, Wilson is the head of the Department of Oncology at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. During the shows run, the characters of House and Wilson have been compared to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Wilsons portrayer, Robert Sean Leonard, has stated that his character and Dr. House were originally supposed to play these roles, Leonard also read the script of the pilot episode of CBS Numb3rs and was planning to audition. He auditioned for House instead because he felt he would enjoy playing the character that House went to for help. The characters name is derived from two neighboring buildings at McGill Universitys downtown campus, in Montreal, Quebec, Wilson is one of three brothers. He has a degree from McGill University, and graduate degrees from Columbia University. Out of interest, House bailed him out and hired an attorney to clear his name, thus starting their professional and personal relationship. In the Season 1 episode Histories, it is revealed one of his brothers is homeless. Wilson has a history of failed marriages, he is married to his wife during Season 1 and, with the discovery of his wifes infidelity. After the failure of his marriage, Wilson lives in various temporary accommodations until he meets Amber Volakis. He is described as nearly 40 in Dont Ever Change, in Season 4, Wilson and Houses relationship has been sorely tested on many occasions. He was diagnosed with stage II thymoma in the Season 8 episode Body, in the end of the subsequent episode, House performed a CT scan to check the status of the cancer. Houses stunned facial expression and silence when the results are displayed seemingly does not bode well for Wilsons future prognosis and it is later revealed that Wilson, should he pursue the most extensive treatment, could live for one to three years, perhaps. House must report to prison again to serve the six months of his approximately year-long sentence he got earlier, in the last season. In the series finale, at Houses funeral, Wilson gives an honest description of House as opposed to everyones kind words and gets a message telling him to Shut up. To his shock, Wilson discovers House alive and well having faked his death, sometime later, an unkempt Wilson and House are seen in the countryside on motorcycles, Wilson having presumably quit his job to spend his last five months as he wants
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Life expectancy
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Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex. National LEB figures reported by national agencies and international organizations are indeed estimates of period LEB. In the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, LEB was 26 years, for recent years, in Swaziland LEB is about 49, and in Japan, it is about 83. But for those who survive early hazards, a life expectancy of 60 or 70 would not be uncommon, for example, a society with a LEB of 40 may have few people dying at precisely 40, most will die before 30 or after 55. In populations with high infant mortality rates, LEB is highly sensitive to the rate of death in the first few years of life. Mathematically, life expectancy is the number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by e x, which means the number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x. Longevity, maximum lifespan, and life expectancy are not synonyms, Life expectancy is defined statistically as the mean number of years remaining for an individual or a group of people at a given age. Longevity refers to the characteristics of the long life span of some members of a population. Maximum lifespan is the age at death for the individual of a species. Moreover, because life expectancy is an average, a person may die many years before or many years after the expected survival. The term maximum life span has a different meaning and is more related to longevity. Life expectancy is also used in plant or animal ecology, life tables, an analysis published in 2011 in The Lancet attributes Japanese life expectancy to equal opportunities and public health as well as diet. The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years and this is referred to as the maximum life span, which is the upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years any human is known to have lived. Theoretical study shows that the life expectancy at birth is limited by the human life characteristic value δ. The following information is derived from the 1961 Encyclopædia Britannica and other sources, unless otherwise stated, it represents estimates of the life expectancies of the world population as a whole. In many instances, life expectancy varied considerably according to class, Life expectancy at birth takes account of infant mortality but not prenatal mortality. Life expectancy increases with age as the individual survives the higher mortality rates associated with childhood, for instance, the table above listed the life expectancy at birth among 13th-century English nobles at 30
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Euthanasia
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Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. There are different euthanasia laws in each country, the British House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics defines euthanasia as a deliberate intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, to relieve intractable suffering. In the Netherlands and Flanders, euthanasia is understood as termination of life by a doctor at the request of a patient, Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary. Voluntary euthanasia is legal in some countries, non-voluntary euthanasia is illegal in all countries. Involuntary euthanasia is illegal in all countries and is usually considered murder. As of 2006, euthanasia is the most active area of research in contemporary bioethics, in some countries there is a divisive public controversy over the moral, ethical, and legal issues of euthanasia. Jurisdictions where euthanasia is legal include the Netherlands, Canada, Colombia, Belgium, like other terms borrowed from history, euthanasia has had different meanings depending on usage. Bacon referred to an outward euthanasia—the term outward he used to distinguish from a spiritual concept—the euthanasia which regards the preparation of the soul, in current usage, euthanasia has been defined as the painless inducement of a quick death. Another approach incorporates the notion of suffering into the definition, the third element incorporated into many definitions is that of intentionality – the death must be intended, rather than being accidental, and the intent of the action must be a merciful death. Beauchamp and Davidson also highlight Baruch Brodys an act of euthanasia is one in one person. Kills another person for the benefit of the person, who actually does benefit from being killed. Prior to Draper, Beauchamp and Davidson had also offered a definition that includes these elements and their definition specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia, In summary, we have argued. In discussing his definition, Wreen noted the difficulty of justifying euthanasia when faced with the notion of the right to life. In response, Wreen argued that euthanasia has to be voluntary, and that euthanasia is, as such. Other commentators incorporate consent more directly into their definitions, hence, euthanasia can be voluntary only. Euthanasia may be classified according to whether a person gives informed consent into three types, voluntary, non-voluntary and involuntary, however, others see consent as essential. Euthanasia conducted with the consent of the patient is termed voluntary euthanasia, active voluntary euthanasia is legal in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Passive voluntary euthanasia is legal throughout the U. S. per Cruzan v. Director, when the patient brings about his or her own death with the assistance of a physician, the term assisted suicide is often used instead
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Robert Chase
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Robert Chase, MBBS is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is portrayed by Jesse Spencer and his character was a part of the team of diagnosticians who worked under Gregory House until the end of the third season when House fires him. However, he resumed work at the hospital as a surgeon, Robert Chase is the longest-serving member of Houses staff. Chase has been attracted to Allison Cameron since the beginning of the show, in Post Mortem, he left the Diagnostic Team after realizing he was in the same position as he was 10 years earlier, unlike all of the other former members of the team. However, in the finale, he rejoins the hospital as the new Head of Diagnostic Medicine, replacing House. Chase is Australian and was born around the year 1980 and his father, Czech Rowan Chase, was a wealthy and world renowned rheumatologist who had emigrated to Australia from Czechoslovakia before Chase was born. Chase portrayed as a follower of House during the first 3 seasons, often supporting his opinions. He was raised Catholic, and in the Season 1 episode Damned If You Do and this leads to heated arguments between Chase and Foreman, who is quick to disagree with House and eager to prove him wrong. Chase is regarded by most characters as someone who will do anything to protect his job. This is mostly due to an incident in one when Chase, fearing for his job after House had been made to fire someone from his team. However, as the show progresses, Chase begins to show his real trust, having been on the team longer than anyone else, Chase cares for House, as shown by the hug in the Season Three episode Half-Wit. Tritters manipulation works and his relationships with Cameron, Foreman and especially House are further strained, as a surgical critical care specialist, Chase performs most of the invasive medical procedures, as well as observing and helping with the teams patients surgeries when he worked for House. After his departure from the team, Chase becomes a surgeon in the hospital and he is trained in hypnosis, using this to help House recover lost memories in Houses Head. Perhaps because his mother drank herself to death after his father left her, Chase was, early in the series, Chase has, at times, shown a shrewd capability of deducing peoples motives, rather similar to House. He correctly deduced that Foreman was ashamed of the reason for his resignation and he also figured out that House was the one who canceled Foremans job interview in The Jerk, for no reason other than to get the staff to mistrust and suspect each other. He went to medical school doing his studies at the University of Sydney. He later completed specialties in Intensive Care and Cardiology, he took a residency in Neurosurgery at Melbourne Hospital. When his agent suggested that Spencer audition for the role of Chase, however, he was impressed with the show once his agent showed him the scripts, and found out that Bryan Singer was producing the show
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Threesome
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In human sexuality, a threesome is sexual activity that involves three people at the same time. Threesome can also refer to a triangle, a three-way romantic relationship. A threesome is a form of sex, but involving only three people. Among swinging couples, one of the two partners is often the force and the other is more passive-supportive of the addition of additional sex parties. Some couples use a threesome as a way to develop a love triangle, a threesome is a common element of sexual fantasy. It is commonly depicted in pornography, but very rarely in mainstream cinema, the people involved in a threesome may have any combination of gender and sexual orientation. Each participant may engage in any type of sex act with one or both of the others, such as vaginal, anal or oral sex or mutual masturbation. One or more of the participants may engage in sexual activity, such as masturbation. It is a matter of definition whether participation of a third person without physical contact constitutes a threesome. This may relate to such as voyeurism or cuckolding. Lucky Pierre is slang for a person performing both receptive and insertive anal and/or vaginal sex simultaneously during a threesome, being positioned between the two partners. A heterosexual threesome may involve two men and a woman, or one man and two women - that is, two men having sex with a woman, or two women with a man. A bisexual threesome may involve a man having sex with a man and a woman, the woman having sex with a man, a homosexual threesome would involve either three men or three women. Other possibilities are possible, such as a man having sex with two women who are having sex with each other, therefore, safe sex practices are advisable. Threesome scenes are featured in films, including A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho
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Newton North High School
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Newton North High School, formerly Newton High School, is the larger and longer-established of two public high schools in Newton, Massachusetts, the other being Newton South High School. It is located in the village of Newtonville, the new building opened for classes in September 2010. In the 1850s, high school classes in Newton were conducted in buildings shared with schools in the villages of Newton Centre, West Newton, Upper Falls. In 1859, Newtons population topped 8,000 residents for the first time, Newton High Schools first principal was Mr J. N. Beals, for whom the current Beals House was named, Beals also served as one of new schools two teachers along with Miss Amy Breck. Beals left the job for health reasons after only one year and was replaced by Mr. E. D. Adams, the first Newton High School building, located on Walnut Street in Newtonville, opened in September 1859, and modified in 1875. In 1898, the building was replaced with a new building. This building, The Classical Newton High School, eventually known as Building I. The next building was the Vocational High School and the building of the Newton High School complex opened in 1926 on Walnut Street. A field house/gymnasium building adjacent to Building I, was part of the complex. Buildings I, II, and III were connected to each other via a series of maintenance tunnels, Newton High School was Newtons only public high school for more than 100 years until 1960 when Newton South High School opened. Newton High School was renamed Newton North High School in 1973 when a new building opened on Lowell Avenue, the first graduating class as Newton North High School was in the spring of 1974. After Newton North was built, all of the former Newton High School buildings were demolished, by 2003, the old Newton North building was 30 years old and aging poorly, with leaks, poor ventilation and crumbling stairs. At a public hearing in June 2006, community residents criticized the plan for its cost and for creating a new intersection at Walnut Street. Others claimed the proposed north-south orientation and lack of a basement level would waste energy as compared to the current structure, nonetheless, after a public referendum and vote in January 2007, Newton residents approved the current plan for a new building. Gund Partnership designed the new building, and Dore and Whittier Architects was the Architect of Record, dimeo Construction Company were the construction manager and general contractor for the project. The removal of the asbestos, laden throughout the building, was priced at $10 million. The building was dismantled, with contaminated construction debris packaged in lined cardboard boxes
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Sarah Lawrence College
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Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers,15 miles north of Manhattan, the college is known for low student-to-faculty ratio, and highly individualized course of study. The school models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials, Sarah Lawrence emphasizes scholarship, particularly in the humanities, performing arts, and writing, and places high value on independent study. Sarah Lawrence College is ranked 59th in the National Liberal Arts Colleges category in 2017 by U. S. News & World Report, Sarah Lawrence was also named the higher education institution with the best classroom experience in all of America by Princeton Review in 2013. Sarah Lawrence College was established by real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, the College was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women. In addition to founding Sarah Lawrence College, William Lawrence played a role in the development of the neighboring community of Bronxville. Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College from 1945 to 1959, Taylor, elected president at age 30, maintained a friendship with educational philosopher John Dewey, and worked to employ the Dewey method at Sarah Lawrence. Sarah Lawrence became an institution in 1968. Prior to this transition, there were discussions about relocating the school and merging with Princeton University, at the undergraduate level, Sarah Lawrence offers an alternative to traditional majors. Students pursue a variety of courses in four different curricular distributions, the Creative Arts, history and the social sciences, the humanities. Classes are structured around a system through which students learn in small, highly interactive seminars. Each student is assigned to a faculty advisor, known as a don, to plan a course of study and provide ongoing academic guidance. Most courses, apart from those in the arts, consist of two parts, the seminar, limited to 15 students, and the conference, a meeting with a seminar professor. In these conferences, students develop projects that extend the course material. Sarah Lawrence has no required courses and traditional examinations have largely replaced with research papers. Additionally, grades are recorded only for transcript purposes—narrative evaluations are given in lieu of grades, the College sponsors international programs in Florence, at Wadham College, Oxford, at Reid Hall in Paris, and at the British American Drama Academy in London. Sarah Lawrence is one of the only American colleges operating an international program in Cuba, Sarah Lawrence offers a program for people wishing to seek a B. A. or a Masters and have been out of school for any period of time. Eugene Lang College Exchange Program, In 1996 the college began its program with Eugene Lang College
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Cocaine
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Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug. It is commonly snorted, inhaled, or injected into the veins, mental effects may include loss of contact with reality, an intense feeling of happiness, or agitation. Physical symptoms may include a fast heart rate, sweating, high doses can result in very high blood pressure or body temperature. Effects begin within seconds to minutes of use and last between five and ninety minutes, Cocaine has a small number of accepted medical uses such as numbing and decreasing bleeding during nasal surgery. Cocaine is addictive due to its effect on the pathway in the brain. After a short period of use, there is a risk that dependence will occur. Its use also increases the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, lung problems in those who smoke it, blood infections, Cocaine sold on the street is commonly mixed with local anesthetics, cornstarch, quinine, or sugar which can result in additional toxicity. Following repeated doses a person may have decreased ability to feel pleasure, Cocaine acts by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This results in concentrations of these three neurotransmitters in the brain. It can easily cross the barrier and may lead to the breakdown of the barrier. Cocaine is made from the leaves of the plant which are mostly grown in South America. In 2013,419 kilograms were produced legally and it is estimated that the illegal market for cocaine is 100 to 500 billion USD each year. With further processing crack cocaine can be produced from cocaine, after cannabis, cocaine is the most frequently used illegal drug globally. Between 14 and 21 million people use the drug each year, use is highest in North America followed by Europe and South America. Between one and three percent of people in the world have used cocaine at some point in their life. In 2013 cocaine use resulted in 4,300 deaths. The leaves of the plant have been used by Peruvians since ancient times. Cocaine was first isolated from the leaves in 1860, since 1961 the international Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has required countries to make recreational use of cocaine a crime
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Chris Taub
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Christopher Michael Chris Taub, M. D. is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is portrayed by Peter Jacobson and he becomes a member of Houses new diagnostic team in the Season 4 episode titled Games. Taub is a surgeon and was #39 during the games used by House to select his new team. House almost fired Taub on the first day of the games and he also reveals himself as the most willing of the applicants to challenge Houses authority, even telling a patients father that he thinks House is wrong and can have him removed from the case. When House returned to PPTH in the episode Teamwork, House brought Taub back into the team along with Thirteen, Chase, in the episode Lockdown, it is revealed that Taub has an outstanding educational and early professional profile. He also expressed frustration that he has not continued the same level of success in his current professional career and is now working with people of a younger age, Taub interviewed Masters for medical school. Taub is married to Rachel, and although he loves his wife. He had a career in cosmetic surgery, but that ended after having an affair with a partners daughter or a nurse. When asked why he gave up his chosen practice completely, he simply says and his partners signed a non-disclosure agreement and Taub signed a non-compete, meaning he could no longer practice cosmetic surgery. In spite of this, he has shown indicators for future adultery, admitting to House, Some people pop pills. In the episode Mirror Mirror, the patient with a type of Mirror syndrome, sees that he is attracted to Amber Volakis dominant personality. In the episode Whatever It Takes, Taub reveals that he is Jewish and this is supported by the fact that House often alludes to Taubs religion, e. g. giving him a Gold Star of David for identifying intracranial pressure in a patient. In the episode Adverse Events, Lucas, Houses PI, finds out that Taubs wife Rachel opened a bank account. House tells Taub that shes put $83,000 in it, when Taub confronts her about it, she tells him shes been saving up to buy him the car he wanted as a surprise because she knew hed never buy it himself. When she finally gives him the car he apparently decides to tell her he cheated on her, in the Birthmarks episode, he claims to have told her, and indicates that she has not thrown him out, and that they are talking about how to handle their situation. In the episode The Itch, it is revealed that he had been sleeping on the couch, in the 100th episode, The Greater Good, Taub mentions wanting to possibly have children, although his wife seems opposed to the idea. In Painless, he states his opinion that suicide is never a solution, Kutner questions him, convinced that anyone so thoroughly opposed to it must carry some sort of baggage associated with it. Taub later tells Kutner that a colleague of his attempted suicide
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Lawrence Kutner (House, M.D. character)
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Lawrence Kutner, M. D. is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is played by Kal Penn and he becomes a member of Houses new diagnostic team in Games, the ninth episode of the fourth season. Kutner is shown to be open-minded about any new experience which is the reason he wants to join Houses new team and he was originally #6 during the games, but was fired in his first appearance for reporting Amber Volakiss recording of patient information. Of all the new fellows, he is the most enthusiastic, when House was finally forced to pick his new team, Dr. Cuddy suggested he hire Kutner because Kutner shares philosophy of medicine. He first got approval from House after successfully reviving a patient with a defibrillator while in a hyperbaric chamber, similarly, in Mirror Mirror, he resuscitated a patient using a defibrillator while the patients skin was wet, inadvertently shocking himself into unconsciousness at the same time. Defibrillators and Kutner have become a joke for House now, who, in Ugly, appoints him the professional defibrillist. Kutner is a science fiction fan and seems to be distracted by pretty women. However, at the end of Wilsons Heart, while other characters were shown to be upset over Ambers death. He tends to share a great deal of personal details with others. In Here Kitty, he is shown to be superstitious, throwing salt over his shoulder after House deliberately spills some and he also takes great pains to avoid walking past a cat who is rumored to predict the deaths of people to whom it is close. Little is known about his past, in the season four finale, Kutner commented that Kutner is not an Indian surname. He revealed that his parents owned a deli and were shot to death during a robbery when he was six years old, in the episode Birthmarks, Kutner admits that he liked being different, being Indian, after being adopted by a Jewish family when he was six. In the season four episode Ugly, in order to put a patient at ease in admitting drug use, in Adverse Events it is said that he holds a Guinness World Record for crawling the longest distance, twenty-one miles. In Joy to the World, as a response to events in the episode. In Let Them Eat Cake, Kutner runs a medical advice clinic under Houses name, however, his fellow employees. In Here Kitty, to get back at House for making fun of him for being superstitious and it is implied that it is actually Kutners urine. In Simple Explanation, it is revealed that Kutner streaked during the Penn-Dartmouth football game, the team also meets Kutners adoptive parents, who tell them that Lawrence called them Mr. and Mrs. Kutner until his ninth birthday, when they became Mom and Dad. They also tell him that Kutners original name was Lawrence Choudhary, Kutner is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his apartment by Thirteen and Foreman in Simple Explanation
