WordNet
n. a case for a welfare worker [syn: welfare case]
Wikipedia
"Charity Case" is the third episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 158th overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox in the United States on October 17, 2011. It is also the penultimate episode with Olivia Wilde as Dr. Remy Hadley (Thirteen). This episode seems loosely based on the American investor Zell Kravinsky, even using his quote that "to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger".
Usage examples of "charity case".
She earned the right to install her own patients here by helping with the work in the charity wards, and every difficult charity case she took, as she saw it, was one more chip out of the edifice of Masculine Superiority.
Which would be better, for him to be a productive citizen, or a charity case?
I looked like I needed the bucks more than he did, and I'm no charity case.
In the one can argue, the disposable patient was pro by society in the form of the charity case (at this was the popular belief).
The dead man was a charity case, named Brodwick, and his associates were being checked.