Eventually, House forms a theory that Hannah is desperate to leave her girlfriend.Ĭhronic insomnia, rectal bleeding, nasal bleeding, involuntary rapid eye movements, internal bleeding, liver failure. Hannah hasn’t slept in 10 days, so she downs a bottle of sleeping pills – and still doesn’t sleep. It eventually wins the day with House’s makeshift gold test and the intricacies of heavy metal testing: a heavy metals test only looks for a small percentage of heavy metals as the others are impossible to get large doses of into your system unless… you’re being poisoned! Bubonic Plague (Season 2, Episode 18) House corners Samantha in the ladies bathroom and proves that her hands are covered in gold residue, via a lengthy, sarcastic story about a trip to Egypt.īetween the gold case and House throwing facts about Herpes at a suspicious couple, the episode manages a few great science moments among a lot of relationship banter. Smart and uncompromising, like the man himself. Swollen tongue, stifled breathing, pain in lower extremities, kidney failure, severe lung damage.ĭuring the big reveal, House uses chemistry to almost literally catch Samantha red-handed. Eventually, House begins to suspect Bob’s wife of poisoning him. All symptoms point to heavy metal poisoning, but no treatment works. Gold Poisoning (Season 2, Episode 15)īob is brought in after breathing issues mid-sex with his wife Samantha. A tumour that causes bursts of strength and anger is nearly as cool as LL Cool J, too. House begins to wonder about the motive behind Clarence’s murders in prison, noticing an anomaly.Ī brutal – if inaccurate – scene involving iron-based prison tattoos in an MRI machine earns points, as does House’s treatment for methanol poisoning: a bottle of rum. House seems perpetually accepting of the murderer, until putting him in an MRI machine which contains a powerful magnet pulls the heavy metals in his prison tattoos out of his skin. Hallucinations, dehydration, intermittent adrenal secretion. House is interested and decides to help him get healthy again before his execution. Methanol Poisoning & Pheochromocytoma (Season 2, Episode 1)Ĭlarence (guest star LL Cool J) has visions of his victims while on Death Row. House managed to guess it purely from a comment about diseases from South East Asia though, proving his odd, incomparable brilliance. But to have anthrax that activates dormant leprosy? That’s just bad luck. The anthrax is discovered through routine testing: House notices Gabe’s father’s supposed carpal tunnel surgery didn’t work, leading him to press him on his travels to Asia, where his trust in local medicine lead him to contract dormant leprosy.Īnthrax and leprosy are both well-known, though very rare. Worried for his son, his fear translates as telling House what to do.
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Strained breathing, fever, rejection of antibiotic medicine, necrosis, skin lesions, localised paralysis.Īny moment in which House is forced to deal with Gabe’s father, a wealthy ex-pilot who financially supports the hospital.
Anthrax & Leprosy (Season 1, Episode 13)Īfter a Ouija board condemns him, Gabe Reilich comes down with what appears to be pneumonia.
Victoria did manage to retain some of the most commonly recognisable symptoms so House’s thought process wasn’t too unbelievable. To be certain, he sticks a needle in Foreman’s arm where she bit him to test the numbness.Īn extremely well-known disease, with less than ten human cases in the last twenty years. Victoria is tazed twice leading House to suspect rabies. House tries to bribe a police officer into admitting he tazed Victoria. Localised numbness, light sensitivity, disorientation, paranoia, ineffectiveness of sedatives, hydrophobia. There’s some doubt as to whether she’s faking the symptoms, especially from Foreman. Victoria Madsen, a homeless woman, is discovered, delusional, at a house party with a book of sketches. Warning: This may contain some distressing images. From background notes to what morals and laws were violated to diagnose them, we present the Gregory House Medical Chart. We inspect the rarest diseases, oddest symptoms and outrageous medical practices from the manipulative genius’ archives.
His underhanded, efficient but near-sadistic methods extend to his friends (well, his one friend) and colleagues too. His motto, and his show’s tagline (Everybody Lies), suggests that he’s not a people person. He picks out only cases that interest him and has little time for patient comfort: he’s only there to solve the puzzle. He’s a brilliant, misanthropic doctor working at Princeton Plainsboro hospital.