Medical Center.
"Cured?"
Adam was slightly surprised when he received the call and heard the news, then smiled. "Congratulations!"
"See that?"
Dr. House sounded smug on the other end of the line. "This is real medical skill! Even if you can memorize all medical knowledge, knowing how to use it to save people before Death arrives is what truly tests a doctor's skill and ethics."
"I acknowledge the skill."
Adam teased, "But hearing the words 'medical ethics' come from Dr. House just sounds bizarre no matter how I hear it."
"Saving a patient is a doctor's greatest virtue, the highest virtue!"
Dr. House said disdainfully. "Everything else is minor virtue! So there's nothing wrong with me saying it!"
"You're right."
Adam sighed. "Deep down, I think so too, but I can't exactly say it.
After all, while you spent these three days treating Keith alone, I saved twenty people."
"So what if you saved twenty?"
Annoyed by Adam's humblebragging, Dr. House sneered. "You think you saved them, but maybe you didn't really save them. Even if you did save them, without you, any random doctor could have used a defibrillator and CPR to save most of them.
So it hardly matters whether you're there or not.
You're completely wasting your talent and your reason for existing."
"I like it."
Adam smiled. "I have so much talent, and it's so high. What's wrong with wasting a little of it on something I enjoy?"
"You really are arrogant."
Dr. House laughed happily.
"So tell me."
Adam asked curiously, "What exactly was Keith's illness?"
"I've already completed my task."
Dr. House mocked him. "Answering your questions wasn't part of it, unless you come join my team.
Besides, aren't you in close contact with Chase and Cameron? Why ask me? Sooner or later, I'm