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** Thirteen helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. Plus, it meant she had to get breast implants in order to secretly save her lungs. Yay!
** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets massively sued by her brother, House decides not to fire him, not because he figured that Chase would learn from his mistake, but because he'd figured that since the news of {{spoiler|the death of Chase's father}} had led to his screw-up, it wouldn't happen again because now {{spoiler|both his parents were dead}}.
** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple {{spoiler|staph infection}}, House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will "do it again." House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in [[Televisually
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Chachi accidentally burns down Arnold's. Al (the owner) is upset about the fire but doesn't blame Chachi because it was an accident. Fonzie chews Chachi out about it; then appoints Chachi as his representative at [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|the new]] [[In Name Only|Arnold's]] (in which Fonzie's partner with Al), because Fonz knows Chachi will make sure not to screw up again.
* ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'': The Director of Operations uses something like this to select his titular spies; his secretary observes that all his agents are superhumanly dedicated to make up for a self-perceived defect or inadequacy.
* ''[[The West Wing]]''
** The pilot episode of has Josh get this treatment from Pres. Bartlet.
** Leo does it to [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Par]][[Gilmore Girls|is]] after she leaks his former drug habit.
* ''[[CSI]]'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI, and that he doesn't want to lose another. Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of the team.
** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.
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