Dr. House

I love watching Dr. House. I love him. He's a jerk in my opinion, but I still love him. Why? I'm not yet entirely sure. Some aspects I love about him are how he provocates people and gets a reaction. His dogma of "everybody lies", it's as sad as true. How he rationalizes things people usually completly forget would better be rationalized.
Examples?
Dr. Cameron: "You want me to tell a man whose wife is about to die that she may have cheated on him?"
Dr. House: "No, I want you to be polite and let her die."
Straight.
But maybe what I like most is, that he does what I don't dare to.