Title: Right and Wrong
Characters: Amber, House
Rating: G
Spoilers: For 4x09
If you're going to work for me, you have to be willing to be wrong, willing to lose…
Everybody's wrong sometimes, I know that. But, that doesn't mean they like it, or that they don't want to be right. I like being right. It is better for my patients, better for those around me, better for me. Wanting to be right, striving to win, being competitive… that is not a flaw. Being wrong is the true flaw here, and eradicating that outcome as much as possible should be everybody's goal.
House loves being right. He works off the assumption that he is right most of the time, probably. He's confident, I'm confident; I don't see how he can have a problem with that, or with me. I'm good at what I do. I'll do anything to get the diagnosis, to treat the patient, to come to a conclusion, preferably the correct one. He's the same way.
So I guess I just… don't understand. I don't understand how wanting to be right is wrong. I don't understand how wanting to win is some major character fault.
...'Cause you just did. You're fired.
I don't understand how this happened.