What is the point of going loud and big then not saying exactly what is the point of it all? House sees discomfort but it's that of a weasel, a waffler and a liar. He can't stand two of the three. At least liars see the layers to conversation. Amory thinks that it can stay at the surface and be self-serving? Hell no. It undoes the ballsy nature of a confrontation. Go big or go home. What a newbie.

"No. Are you even listening? I'm a doctor not a dealer." And he is insulted that for someone who gets how much of a curmudgeon this gimp doctor is, he believes he can dangle some kind of a carrot. Hell no. "You're wasting my time and yours."

House has been there except he has prescriptions, he has ways. Desperate ones. Unlike some stubborn and stupid types who believe you can blitz a doctor's personal office, the doctor has feigned injury to seek prescriptions from other clinics, has tried other means. When all else fails get a script and call it a day. Maybe it's because he feels that the schemes make him more of the master of pain even though there is more than enough evidence to the other way around.