House, Season One, is great watching for a long weekend or a short convalesence.  It has been on Fox television for two seasons.  If you haven't been a fan, the dvd will convert you and prepare you for season 3 in the Fall. 

House is a great diagostician and a lousy human being.  Every episode follows the same format:  some patient has some unknown disease that will likely kill him or her.  House and his team of doctors race the clock to figure out the disease and cure the patient. 

House is uniformly mean to  his subordinates and to his boss, the hospital administrator.  Even his best...