[House is going to ignore the mention of self-flagellation for the moment. His own self-destructive impulses aren't exactly hidden, certainly not from people who have been here for any length of time.]

Some would say you just deserve to be inconvenienced for murder, full stop. A former FBI profiler, you'd hope would say that.

I already told you I don't do surgery, though. [He holds up a hand and waggles his long, thin, pianist's fingers.] Nothing small. [But he's perfectly capable of it when he needs to be, small delicate work.] And we try not to take the nuts and bolts out or put anything in, if we don't need to. That's the difference between our jobs. Figuring out the cause of death because they died is cheating in my line of work.