If this was a desperation move by Cuddy because absolutely nothing else has worked to rein in House, then I think she's just cooked her goose: because this didn't work either. Wilson is injured, and so the hospital is out the time an expensively-trained specialist was away being prepped for the fight and the time it will take for him to heal enough to work effectively. In exchange, the hospital got another expensively-trained specialist with unique skills working in the clinic, which any resident could have done. That's a net operational loss.
Further, while it did make House behave for awhile so as not to make things worse for Wilson, that won't be a permanent change because Wilson will recover and does not blame House for Cuddy's actions. Cuddy is in a bind, or so it seems to me: The two of them support each other, and have the bond between them as a constant supply of emotional and psychological resources against her. If she pushes punishment too far and kills one of them, she loses both of them. If she tries to make Wilson believe House is betraying him in some way, or does what he does because he doesn't care about Wilson, their bond will make that manoeuvre useless. If she tries separation, all she gets is reduced effectiveness from both of them.
Odds are that her last threat in reserve is to sell them on to another (and much less "considerate") owner, so they'd still be together but under far more harrowing conditions. Or maybe rent them out to such an owner for awhile, then use the threat of sale to enforce her demands.
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Date: 2015-06-12 09:26 pm (UTC)If this was a desperation move by Cuddy because absolutely nothing else has worked to rein in House, then I think she's just cooked her goose: because this didn't work either. Wilson is injured, and so the hospital is out the time an expensively-trained specialist was away being prepped for the fight and the time it will take for him to heal enough to work effectively. In exchange, the hospital got another expensively-trained specialist with unique skills working in the clinic, which any resident could have done. That's a net operational loss.
Further, while it did make House behave for awhile so as not to make things worse for Wilson, that won't be a permanent change because Wilson will recover and does not blame House for Cuddy's actions. Cuddy is in a bind, or so it seems to me: The two of them support each other, and have the bond between them as a constant supply of emotional and psychological resources against her. If she pushes punishment too far and kills one of them, she loses both of them. If she tries to make Wilson believe House is betraying him in some way, or does what he does because he doesn't care about Wilson, their bond will make that manoeuvre useless. If she tries separation, all she gets is reduced effectiveness from both of them.
Odds are that her last threat in reserve is to sell them on to another (and much less "considerate") owner, so they'd still be together but under far more harrowing conditions. Or maybe rent them out to such an owner for awhile, then use the threat of sale to enforce her demands.