House builds a cancer suspicion out of one missed appointment
Hospital records trickle in; from two ultrasounds ten months apart House deduces an oncologist was watching her ovaries.
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A mass on the ovary, and House bets on the benign long shot
The ultrasound looks like terminal cancer; House treats for a tuberculoma because the alternative has no treatment.
Right diagnosis, deadly fever: Foreman clashes with the team, then the ice bath
The biopsy confirms the tuberculoma but her fever hits 105; Foreman argues over the Prozac, then forces her into ice.
House rushes a differential to meet his pharmacist
The team lists infection, lupus, drugs and cancer, and House ends the meeting on his leg's schedule.
Detoxing House runs a differential under Wilson's watch
House shrugs off the eye, spots Cuddy's spy in Wilson, denies withdrawal and lands on a heart infection.
The team says House is unfit, then he walks in with the Goldilocks plan
In Cuddy's office the team argues detox has broken him; House arrives and proposes a test dose that hurts just enough.
House accuses the team of star-struck medicine and catches Foreman lying
House dismisses their wish for a fixable kidney problem, bets on steroids, then dissects Foreman's car-trouble excuse.
Addison's on top of old steroid damage: House's two-part theory
No steroids now, no cancer; House splits the symptoms in two and argues the kidneys can carry old damage.
House guesses the donors, then hunts for the rash's cause
Cuddy pitches a 12-year-old's odd pneumonia; House reads her silence as big donors, then runs a differential that lands on a tick bite.
Chase versus Chase: House calls a vote
Chase and his rheumatologist father clash over the rash, and House lets the room vote on which Chase wins.
House drags Chase into a consult with his own father
The lesions are spreading, and House forces father and son to debate it; the proctologist jab lands on Rowan.
House busts Cameron for using a negotiating book
Cameron steers Foreman and Chase toward her clot theory with first names and flattery; House names the technique and mocks it.
Cameron's Aunt Elyssa theory wins over House
Chase and Cameron snipe on first names until Cameron argues a 'normal' sed rate could be high for Carly, and House loves it.
Joey wakes up, and House rules this is not a democracy
The team argues over an old head injury, the patient wakes and refuses drilling, and House overrules his team to keep him.
House's baseball-bat lesson on sudden onset
Back with liver failure, Joey tests positive for hep C; House argues timing with a wife and a bat, and jokes one test wins because she's cuter.
Foreman tells House he can trust him
Foreman realizes House suspects him of reporting to Vogler; they talk toxic comas and meals, and House turns his pledge into a logic loop.
A 10-year-old's heart attack, and House drops the firing news
The team debates how a child has a heart attack; House then casually announces one of them is gone by week's end.
Rivals under pressure: the diet pill theory
With jobs on the line, the team snipes through clots and liposuction until diet pills come up and House calls the mother a liar.
Rapid-fire differential lands on Cushing's
House forces snap answers; obesity flips from cause to symptom, the girl's height gives it away, and the team names Cushing's.
Hiding from Cuddy for a differential
The team meets out of Cuddy's sight; House mocks 'idiopathic' and justifies a whole body scan with a football metaphor.
House's Inuit fishing lesson
With a spleen biopsy too dangerous, House explains how Inuit find fish by watching herons, and the team finds another test.
The diagnosis, explained in a collapsing football play
House explains the senator's immunodeficiency with a football metaphor that falls apart, and dismisses Chase's earlier idea.
Who chokes on soft, wet pear?
The team argues preeclampsia versus weakness until House fixes on what she choked on and orders a scope and an eyelid check.
Sacrifice or biology? House cites Darwin
Foreman and Chase debate Naomi's choice; House calls it pure biology and says his patient is the mother.
House bargains with Cuddy for one hour
House argues the diver's neck pain doesn't fit meningitis; Cuddy gives him an hour and Chase gets the A-to-Z list.
The pill-cam money shot
Watching the camera pill's video, House scolds Chase for taking orders from Foreman, then spots the bleeding vessel.
Differential in the triage line
Handing out pills and forms, the team runs a differential; House sniffs out a fake patient by her hair.
Who would poison a 12-year-old? House lists suspects
As Mary's seizures multiply, House ranks rival divers and swim fans as poisoners; Foreman proposes an outdated scan.
Balloons, and the boys who stayed away
Get-well balloons lead House to ask who visited Mary. No boys did, and he wonders if the rash isn't a rash.
Cameron returns, the jaw plate blocks the MRI, and the date leaks
Cameron is back on the team; House spots why the MRI is off-limits, and Cameron tells Chase and Foreman what her new contract got her.