This quick-paced medical drama was loved by medical as well as general audiences and, speaking from personal experience, was (is) a hit with many medical students all over the world. Unlike other medical dramas (*cough* Grey's Anatomy *cough*), it stood out for its equal emphasis on the medical aspect and the drama in the lives of its characters.
But the show was guilty of glamorizing toxic and unprofessional behavior at the workplace by its eponymous lead, Dr. Gregory House. House was depicted as the sharp, quirky, unconventional but flawed genius who can get away with almost everything because he is just so good at his job. He makes sexist comments in the faces of his female colleagues, forces his co-workers to break into the houses of his patients, asks his residents to bring him the panties of the hospital's dean, and similar atrocious behavior.