House's first clinic case: the man who turned orange
House asks for cable TV, not patients, then diagnoses a golfer's orange skin as carrots plus vitamins and his marriage as something worse.
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House schools a steroid-wary mother on asthma
A mother questions her 10-year-old's inhaler and House's leg; he explains asthma bluntly and walks out mid-sentence.
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.
House reads a clinic patient's career from the color of her mucus
A patient whose cold is already gone gets told from her new glasses and white teeth that she's about to be fired.
House meets the family and hunts for who gave the cough pills
House explains why not caring makes him a better doctor, then presses the family until a relative admits giving Brandon his cough pills.
House's bedside pep talk: hand-holder or the doctor who ignores you
House drops in on Brandon to boast about leaving early and offer a choice between two kinds of doctor.
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.
House sends Luke for a sandwich and actually talks to a patient
House dispatches Luke on a very specific lunch order and sits with Lucy, while the team wonders why he is drawn to patients like her.
Wilson talks a scared Carly into a cancer test
Carly hides her illness from her father and, haunted by her mother's death, refuses a colonoscopy until Wilson offers another way.