Meet the physician who writes for the TV show “House, M.D.”
“A 40-year-old Harvard-trained general internist and clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Foster is not treating Hollywood actors. He is putting words in their mouths — words that resonate with authority and realism.
Foster wangled a job as writer and medical consultant for the hit Fox network TV show ‘House’ by impressing the show’s producers with his Harvard Medical School education and his work in the trenches at Beth Israel Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.
He relies on that experience when he is devising medical scenarios that meld drama and the Merck Manual of Medicine.”
