Dr. Allison Cameron.  Cameron is funny to me.  She, of course, had a thing for House, although their philosophy on life was the complete opposite.  That’s what makes their relationship so interesting.  If I had to choose one character to call the polar opposite of House, it would be Cameron.  To sum her up in three words, I’d have to say honest, idealistic, and selfless.  She hates lying to patients, regardless of whether or not it’s for the good.  She prefers to obey to proper practice of medicine, yet another contrast to House.  If you remember early in the first season, House caught her trying to manipulate her peers using information from a “How to manipulate” type book.  This tells us a lot about her insecurities as a person.  It shows you that she isn’t as confident as she sometimes comes of as.

Obviously, the relationship between Cameron and Chase would never remain simply sexual.  As Chase put it, she has a problem not getting attached to a puppy she sees on the side of the road.  We will probably never know whether or not she actually did that because of attraction, or simply to make House jealous.  Nevertheless, they are together in the show.  Cameron is the kind of person that befriends others very quickly, in my opinion.  She was totally unaware that Foreman didn’t consider her a friend, as obviously, she considered him one.  That’s one problem that comes with being selfless; people like her tend to put way too much trust in others, and assume their relationship is more than it is, and I mean that in friendship relationship terms.

Cameron reveals numerous times throughout the show that she is an atheist, but at times you see that she would like to believe that something bigger is out there.  She’s very ethical, and at times, I believe she has trouble thinking that the strong ethical standpoint she has was 100% natural.  That’s never revealed in the show, just an opinion. 

House makes a great point that there’s no logical reason that she would be a Doctor.  He deduces that she’s damaged, which is later revealed to be true.  He also believes this is the main reason she is attracted to him, and he’s a “sick” puppy that needs to be nurtured back to good health.  This makes perfect sense when in the third season, after House’s leg is temporarily healed, she refuses to go out for a drink with him.  So what did Cameron see in House?  If you remember, in the first season I believe, she asks him at one point if he likes her, and he says no bluntly.  That’s pretty harsh, but what else can you expect from him?  She wanted to feel special, obviously.  She wanted someone that didn’t like anyone on earth (House) to give her the hard, cold, truth about his feelings.  I guess it was more of an acceptance thing than anything else.  It’s probably the main reason she likes him so much.  She even said once, that it’s because he’s brash, brutally honest, and even mean.  What can we learn from Cameron?  That it’s hard to be a completely selfless person, because sometimes you get walked on.  I’m not saying we shouldn’t, but it just shows you how bad the rest of the world is.  Instead of getting treated great in return, you get walked on.  Not that Cameron gets walked all over, but I think you see my point.  Good people don’t always get equal treatment back.