I may have already posted this on the personal canon thread but my favoured explanation is that Cuddy hired Wilson first, pre-infarction, and House (who of course has the history with Cuddy from way back at Michigan) played some role in her decision to hire him. Yep, I always thought that Wilson's probably been working at PPTH the longest out of the two, (but I don't now because Cuddy's been dean for wht 12 years? for Wilson to become department head I would think he'd have to have at least been there a while, even if he was young, so I think he was probably just hired by some dean somewhere over the rainbow) and then after all that shyte happened with House's leg, it just worked to hire House. Nope;) House: What effects would interferon have on leukaemia? Wilson: Depends on what type. Could make it better, could make it worse. House: 4 year fellowships learn that.All in season 2 This proof that Wilson is in PPTH from 5 years only. House is from 8(canon)

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House: 4 year fellowships learn that.All in season 2 This proof that Wilson is in PPTH from 5 years only. House is from 8(canon) Nope. I don't think either is canon. Wilson could have done his fellowships elsewhere -- and since we've seen diplomas on his walls from various sites including Columbia, it's likely his fellowships took place somewhere else. And in terms of how many years House has been there, the canon statements are all over the place, from Vogler's comment in the first season: "eight years he's worked here" in "Mob Rules" (which would mean 11-12 years if we add the years since that episode aired) to Wilson's statement in "Human Error" that House has lived in the same apartment for 15 years. So there really is no solid canon for the timeline, other than House's statement that "time is a universal invariant."

I've seen it postulated that House was hired at PPTH by a different dean, then after the infarction Cuddy created the diagnostic medicine department for him and rehired him. That would explain why he's worked at PPTH longer than he's worked for Cuddy. Except that would mean Stacy stayed with House for three years after the infarction... I'm getting dizzy. Wilson could have done his fellowships elsewhere -- and since we've seen diplomas on his walls from various sites including Columbia, it's likely his fellowships took place somewhere else. He did two fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, there are certificates on his wall.

Timeline discussion! I love it! For me a "very special episode" would be the one where they could explain all the time inconsistencies without make me dizzy! :lol: Maybe Cuddy hired him while she was still "Chief of Medicine" and then when she became Dean she created the Diagnostics Department, no? Stacy: if she stayed with House for three years after the infarction, it means that he spent three years doing PT? Wilson implied that she left him while he was in PT, right? When did House and Wilson meet? At least that I remember there are no indications that they went to the same Colleges or Medical Schools, so I guess they could met in any circumstance, without any connection with Medicine... Ok, I'll stop now...

Just quickly throwing in my 2 cents here: I am not even going to BEGIN TO TRY and make sense out of all these timeline issues. I'm just going to accept things as they are now. House and Wilson met at some point in time. Both got hired at PPTH at some point. Cuddy got her job at some point. It aaaaaaalllll happened somewhere in the misty ether of The Past. I have decided not to try and puzzle it all out--that way I'm free to just kick back and enjoy present-day H/W wonderfulness. NOT "Very Specialness," mind you, "Wonderfulness." :D

Can we use the start of Chase's fellowship as a timemarker for when House first got hired back by Cuddy? Nope, because in "All In" we find out that Chase heard about House's obsession about Esther from previous members of House's team.

I thought Stacy left almost immediately based on Wilson's comment to her that he's the one that had to pick of the pieces. In the ep where House invades Mark's therapy group, 'Spin' I think, he talks about how supportive Stacy was while he was recovering. At the end of 'Humpty Dumpty' he says that Stacy gave him great guilt-sex during the last months of their relationship (paraphrasing). So she stayed around for "months"; what I can't believe is that it was years. If it were years then it wasn't the infarction/cripping that broke them up, but everything else in canon says it was.

Is it Honeymoon, where Stacy tells House something to the effect that Mark made a space for her in his life and House didn't? And what about their conversation in Need to Know?

House was pining for the 5 years since Stacy left and her leaving meant that Wilson had to pick up the pieces. While the post-infarction surgery was the catalyst for her leaving, I always assumed that Wilson was picking up the pieces of House's broken heart, not his broken body. It also means that in S2 Stacy has been gone for 5 years (and the infarction was more than 5 years ago.) And she told Cameron that she and House were together for 5 years.

Yes, and in the pilot Cuddy said House was six years behind on his clinic duty. So a lot of us assumed that Cuddy hired House in his current position six years ago. If we're right that she hired him after the infarction, that would put it at six years ago - meaning Stacy stayed a year. Give or take. Now of course the timeline's screwed up with us learning that House has lived in the same apartment for 15 years...

After the infarction, I hope :wink: