The best episodes of House
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- 01
House begins a detox program at Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital to get the Vicodin out of his system in an attempt to control his hallucinations.
- 02
House remains inhibited by injuries sustained from a bus accident that has also left a victim rapidly deteriorating from a mysterious condition. Clues inside House's head hold the key to a patient's condition, and House's friendship with Wilson is tested beyond limits as murky memories from the bus accident the night before threaten to change their lives forever.
- 03
House finds himself dazed, confused and covered in blood after surviving a bus accident that left dozens seriously injured. Unable to clearly recall the events leading up to the crash due to his head injuries, House becomes convinced through his flashbacks that a fellow bus passenger was exhibiting signs of a deadly illness prior to the crash.
- 04
A 9-year-old terminal cancer patient, Andie, suffered from a hallucinogenic episode and was admitted to the hospital. Wilson convinces House to take the case, but he and his team struggle to diagnose what caused the hallucination. The young girl handles her illness so well that House wonders whether she is really that brave or if it is a medical symptom.
- 05
As House and his team diagnose Vince, a man with a giant, swollen tongue, a disgruntled former patient Jack Moriarty walks into House's office and shoots him. House continues treating his patient from his ICU hospital bed with Jack, who hospital security shot and hand-cuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When the after-effects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to question his ability to diagnose correctly. As his patient's body deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust his team to find a way to solve the case.
- 06
Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide much-needed medical attention at the scene of an emergency.
- 07
At a high-level campaign fundraiser, up-and-coming Senator Tom Wright becomes violently ill. Vogler pushes House to take Wright's case and dangles a new incentive in front of him: deliver a speech on behalf of Vogler's pharmaceutical company and save his whole team without firing one. House examines the senator finding that the symptoms point toward AIDS, a condition that would squash his career and presidential aspirations. But House refuses to settle for the easy answer. And House ends up giving the speech, but it doesn't go quite as Vogler planned.
- 08
While House and his team scramble to discover what's causing brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get House fired after House's pharmaceutical speech. House determines the illness, but the woman and her husband struggle with an emotional and heartbreaking choice between her or her unborn child. Vogler calls for a vote of the Board of Directors to remove House, but when Wilson refuses to make the vote unanimous, Vogler threatens to take his money if the Board doesn't remove Wilson. Finally, Cuddy must take a stand against Vogler.
- 09
House's ex-girlfriend and former hospital legal counsel Stacy Warner returns not to be with House but to get his help diagnosing her ailing husband. While House decides whether or not to take the case, Cuddy forces him to substitute for a sick professor and present a lecture to a class of medical students. As he interweaves the stories of three patients who present with a similar symptom, House gives a lesson the students will never forget.
- 10
When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same bizarre symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman's condition takes the same path.
- 11
Foreman continues to experience the same dire progression of symptoms as the dead police officer: blindness, muscle contractions, and excruciating pain. When he realizes he may be facing imminent death, he calls his father and tries to make amends; his father comes to his son's side. As it comes down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness is in the police officer's apartment. House tries radical procedures to save Foreman's life.
- 12
A 12-year-old boy believes he's cursed after a Ouija board tells him he's going to die. His father, a major financial supporter of the hospital, makes escalating demands of House and the team as they try to diagnose the boy's pneumonia-like symptoms and incongruous rash. Meanwhile, Chase's estranged father, a renowned doctor from Australia, visits, and House invites him to sit in, much to Chase's discomfort. When House diagnoses the boy's illness, the young patient is forced to face the idea that his father may not be everything he believes.
- 13
Billionaire entrepreneur Edward Vogler spends $100 million on Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and becomes the new Chairman of the Board. As a businessman, Vogler intends to turn the clinic into a profitable venue for his new biotech venture and plans to eliminate the financially draining services of Dr. House. Meanwhile, a businesswoman who has it all - perfect life, perfect body, perfect job - is inexplicably paralyzed. When he diagnoses her secret, House must risk his career and medical license to get her a necessary transplant.
- 14
Journalist Fletcher Stone collapses at his editor's retirement party and hits his head on a desk. His sentences are garbled and incoherent when he regains consciousness, so he is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. House and Stacy are out of town defending House's Medicaid billings and later stranded at an airport due to bad weather. So, the team struggles to solve the case on its own.
- 15
Margo, a young housewife on fertility medication, is brought to Princeton Plainsboro Hospital when her inexplicable muscle flailing causes her to crash her car. House and Stacy try to resolve their relationship issues once and for all. Cameron refuses to take her HIV test, wary of the results.
- 16
When 15-year-old faith healer, Boyd, is admitted and claims he can talk to God, House takes the case. House thinks the kid is a clever con until the boy touches one of Wilson's cancer patients and causes her cancer to go into remission.
- 17
House has recovered from multiple gunshot wounds and is back at work, taking on two cases simultaneously: Richard, paralyzed after brain cancer surgery eight years ago, who drove himself on his motorized wheelchair headfirst into a swimming pool; and Caren, a young woman paralyzed from the neck down after a yoga session.
- 18
A famous, 42-year-old, pregnant photographer, Emma Sloan, is brought to the hospital after suffering a stroke in the middle of a high-profile photo shoot with Tyson Ritter. Although Emma's condition initially stabilizes, her health takes a turn for the worse when her kidneys inexplicably fail.
- 19
House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from a severe lack of sleep and is still haunted by Amber. While enlisting Wilson's help to diagnose himself, he is willing to do the unthinkable to make his visions stop.
- 20
House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. Cameron and Chase get married. House admits himself to a detox program.
- 21
When an old friend and former patient of Wilson's exhibits paralysis in his right arm, Wilson puts himself on the case. House wagers Wilson that the patient's symptoms are attributed to new cancer cells. Wilson accepts even though he is reluctant to believe cancer has returned. Cuddy continues her search for real estate.
- 22
House participates in a school's Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the principal's office, he meets two fifth-grade students who assess House's relationship woes and try to help him understand how his selfish antics prevent him from showing Cuddy how he really feels.
- 23
House discovers that Thirteen has been in prison and meets her when released. He has a dual purpose for being there: he wants to know what she did to end up in jail, and he needs her help to win a local spud-gun shooting contest. Meanwhile, the team treats a science teacher suffering from severe respiratory illness. Taub tries to get back into the dating scene but retreats to his old habits.
- 24
When a nun comes into the clinic with swollen arms, rash, and bleeding in her palms, Dr. House's diagnosis is a bad allergy, not stigmata as she believes. House gives her an antihistamine which appears to set off an allergic attack. However, when the nun gets tachycardia from the epinephrine House gives her to treat it, Cuddy concludes he gave her ten times the appropriate dose. When House insists he gave her the proper dose, Cuddy gives him 24 hours to prove the nun has another condition before she calls the malpractice lawyers. Although House finally vindicates himself, the answer doesn't help the patient. As her condition worsens, her fellow sisters pray for her while House and his team work to discover the cause of her illness. House wonders if he misdiagnosed her situation, not realizing that her past is coming back to haunt her.
- 25
Dr. Foreman believes an uncooperative homeless woman is faking seizures to get a free meal ticket at the teaching hospital. But her homelessness strikes a personal chord with Dr. Wilson, and he grows determined to keep her from falling between the cracks. Her worsening symptoms prove to be a complex mystery for House and his team, but the mystery of her identity and medical history may hold the answers to saving her life. Just as the team suspects she has contagious meningitis, the woman goes missing, only to be tasered by the police, who bring her back. But House deduces the taser may have proven yet another diagnosis, with dire results. Meanwhile, House has an audience of two medical students who are learning how to do case studies.
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