House's first differential: illnesses over patients, zebras over horses
House argues doctors treat illnesses, not people, waves off talking to the patient, and leads the team through stroke, mad cow and Wernicke's.
Allison Cameron's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring Allison Cameron, in story order. Played by Jennifer Morrison.
130 moments · 3h 26m · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 130
- 01
- 02
Rebecca stops breathing inside the MRI
A suspected reaction to the contrast dye closes Rebecca's airway mid-scan, and the team has to cut an emergency airway to save her.
- 03
House's plan: stop everything and watch how fast she dies
With Rebecca's symptoms spreading toward the brain stem, House proposes stopping all treatment to read the disease from its speed. The team is appalled.
- 04
Foreman and Cameron trade barbs while breaking into Rebecca's home
Snacking during the break-in, Foreman resents being hired for his record, and asks Cameron how she got the job with weaker grades.
- 05
Ham at her apartment: House exposes Wilson's lie and finds the tapeworm
A detail from the break-in proves the patient isn't Wilson's cousin and points House to a pork tapeworm in her brain, which he explains with relish.
- 06
House tells Cameron why he really hired her
Asked why he hired her, House explains his picks, compares her to lobby art, and probes what damage drove a beautiful woman to medicine.
- 07
A forged letter with a girlie G hooks House on night terrors
House tries to clock out and spots a fake signature from his own office; the case of a 16-year-old with night terrors makes him stay.
- 08
House interrogates Dan's family, then catches him falling asleep awake
An animal-naming test, a blunt abuse question, a glasses theory, and finally a leg twitch that tells House the boy isn't sleeping at all.
- 09
House bets his team the father isn't the father
During the differential House claims the family history is wrong, puts money on paternity, needles Foreman into raising the stakes, and orders a sleep study.
- 10
Chase bluffs, House sees the bowing in the corpus callosum
Asked what the clean MRI shows, Chase guesses meningitis to impress; House calls it out and points to a subtle arch nobody else sees.
- 11
The team splits over MS and Dan hears what it means
The spinal fluid suggests multiple sclerosis; House waves off the six-month rule and goes home, leaving the team to explain the outlook to Dan.
- 12
Dan goes missing and House is dragged in from his evening
The team searches the hospital; House runs into a dressed-up Cuddy, then shrugs off the search and leaves a tip about the roof.
- 13
Not MS after all: House pushes neurosyphilis and a risky injection
The roof episode rules out MS; House rates teen sex odds, polls the team on his sanity and gets the shunt answer he wanted.
- 14
Dan's brain turns on him with voices
A calm check-in turns frightening as Dan begins hearing a voice telling him he's dying.
- 15
Back to square one with the MIDNIT mnemonic
With penicillin failing, House runs the team through a mnemonic he mocks for its spelling, then orders listening equipment for a talking brain.
- 16
Dan improves and reveals he knew he was adopted all along
Dan names more animals than before, then explains how his cleft chin told him the truth back in fifth grade.
- 17
Why this patient? House takes the ER case after a stairwell check
House grills his team on why they care about this patient, then mocks a differential where nothing fits every symptom.
- 18
House argues two diseases beat one in an Occam's razor showdown
The treatment is wrecking Brandon's kidneys. Chase offers a one-in-ten-million fit; House recolors the board and does the odds for two diseases.
- 19
The team doubts House, then Chase and Foreman argue about Cameron
One doctor calls them House's puppets and heads to the lab; there Foreman and Chase spar over whether Cameron is weird or hot.
- 20
House tells Cameron she owns Chase, then gloats over the kidneys
House lectures Cameron on her effect on men, catches the team trying to disprove him, and explains why taunting keeps doctors working.
- 21
Chase's awkward apology becomes a speech on what sex does to a body
Chase admits sex talk makes him uneasy and gets a vivid physiology lesson in return, and Foreman arrives with bad blood counts.
- 22
The cough was first: House works out a gout-drug mix-up
After a long silent think, House explains how a gout medicine handed out by mistake explains every symptom, then hits a timeline snag.
- 23
Wedding plans and a tell-tale letter on Brandon's new pills
Recovering Brandon and Mindy plan the guest list, until he notices his new pills look different from the old ones.
- 24
Epidemic differential: House explains Cuddy's sick baby
With four infants failing, House reads why Cuddy needs a swab team, then the team narrows a resistant hospital germ.
- 25
Cameron can't tell two mothers how sick their son is
Cameron answers with numbers instead of the truth, then is told what parents actually need to hear and why watching is worse than dying.
- 26
House orders a trial: one drug off each baby
The antibiotics are killing the babies' kidneys; while the team argues which to drop, House decides to treat the two infants differently.
- 27
Two families, two treatments, two ways of breaking the news
The Hartigs hear their daughter may not survive; Cameron reassures the other family, and a colleague challenges her over false hope.
- 28
House makes Cameron tell the parents, and scolds Chase for helping
The failed drug points to vancomycin; House assigns Cameron the death talk, and when she freezes he accuses Chase of bailing her out.
- 29
From an autopsy slide to eight vials: hunting a virus
Heart tissue says virus. With little blood to spare, the team crosses out families of viruses and House adds a healthy baby as a control.
- 30
The healthy baby's blood points to the mothers
Three viruses show up in the sick babies and two in the healthy one; House realizes mothers' antibodies decide who survives.