actually, house keeping chase around in s1 makes perfect sense when you consider that house loves gossip and rumors and chase is the only one of the team remotely capable of talking to the nurses and reporting back on all the hospital drama
house characters ranked by how in tune they are with the hospital rumor mill:
house: very. which is strange because none of the nurses, orderlies, or techs will even talk to him, and the same goes for most of the doctors. does he have listening devices in the staff rooms or something?
wilson: very, although he'll occasionally have little moral fits and be reluctant to repeat the rumors. it's like once a month, and he'll always cave and tell house in the end, it's almost a ritual where he pretends to not want to tell secrets and then do it anyway.
cuddy: she knows it all. to house's frustration, though, she very rarely tells him any of the hot gossip, because it's a "hr issue" or "a private matter," and she actually sticks to her guns on this. will sometimes excitedly want to tell him a rumor she deems "safe" to share, but it's only safe because it's public knowledge already and house invariably already knows.
foreman: not very. he would like to think he is above gossip and rumors and workplace drama, and to an extent it's true he finds it all kind of annoying and petty, but also he isn't sure where everyone else is even hearing this stuff. he's always slightly out of the loop and annoyed about it.
cameron: once she gets to the ER? she's in the middle of it. she knows all the drama and who is sleeping with who and where, and she does sort of pretend to be above it but no she loves it. it's so fun. it's a coin toss on if she'll tell house when he comes sniffing: she does care about Privacy and Not Your Business, but she also loves being able to taunt house with information he doesn't have.
chase: extremely. he's the only one of the og3 who is friendly with the nurses, and foreman might think it's to get laid (sometimes true), but also it's his Source of Gossip. he reports it all to house as an unofficial part of his contract, he's also a good source of ER gossip cameron refuses to share.
kutner: very hit and miss. he has the knack for stumbling into some truly left field rumors, but he's not really on the main hospital newsletter. he loves hearing gossip, and will repeat anything, it's just a crapshoot if it's actually new or reliable information.
thirteen: surprisingly out of the loop, largely okay with it. she does enjoy fun workplace rumors, but no one really tells her anything. she's great at pretending she knows stuff, or that she's sitting on info, but she truly doesn't know and is only repeating things second hand.
taub: has his finger on the pulse and loves to hear a good rumor, but keeps it largely to himself. is nosy and enjoys gossip for real, but is strategic about what he reveals. he does, of course, tell rachel everything. she knows so much about the team.
amber: treated gossip like she was studying for the SATs. would blatantly ask people for information, crosscheck, and file it away in the name of information gathering, believes firmly that information is power. can give a two paragraph summary of everyone she works with, but that information isn't always quite as accurate as she believes -- the perils of using rumors as an information source.
masters: beautifully oblivious. constantly out of the loop. this would bother her, if not for the fact she genuinely doesn't understand why anyone would care what two nurses none of them even know are doing in the 3rd floor supply closet.
park: claims she doesn't like gossip or rumors and thinks they're immature. this is because she's very annoyed no one tells her anything, and when she does hear a rumor she's prone to immediately telling it to everyone she knows.
adams: claims she finds gossip and rumors immature. loves gossip and rumors. doesn't really spread them herself, but wants to collect all the information she can. enjoys smugly filling park in on Situations.
