Sebastian Charles fights TB in Africa, then collapses pitching a drug maker
Sebastian delivers too few pills to a crowded clinic, then shames a pharma executive in New Jersey until he collapses mid-pitch.
Sebastian Charles
Every House moment featuring Sebastian Charles, in story order.
12 moments · 18 min
House meets the famous TB crusader and does the guilt math
House mocks the celebrity doctor, then calculates how many people Sebastian lets die every night he sleeps.
Sebastian sits in on his own differential
The patient insists it's TB; House mocks his body powder and argues a patient in the room keeps the team from calling him an idiot.
House cranks the tilt table and finds the problem
House turns Sebastian's tilt-table test up past protocol until he passes out, revealing an abnormal heart rhythm.
Sebastian asks Cameron to Africa, or to dinner
Taking the stairs, Sebastian invites Cameron to his clinics and a date, attacks doctors who hide behind objectivity, then collapses.
Sebastian refuses the pills that his patients couldn't afford
Handed a costly resistant-TB treatment, Sebastian remembers a mother in Djani who died without it and refuses to take it.
House brings Third World treatment to Sebastian's room
House strips the room and cranks the heat; Sebastian refuses to fold, and House says he cheapens real victims.
House cooks Sebastian during his press conference
House turns up the heat to test whether Sebastian can sweat; under the lights the patient goes into cardiac arrest on camera.
House and Sebastian face off: take the pills or he'll prove it wasn't TB
Sebastian says House can't bear to fail; House threatens an autopsy and his own press conference if he won't take the pills.
Poke it with a stick: the calcium test proves the tumor
The team injects calcium to provoke the hidden tumor; Sebastian's sugar crashes into a seizure and House calls it.
Sebastian leaves with pills he may give away
Sebastian promises to return to Africa soon, hints his pills could go missing, and invites Cameron to bring his refill there.
House claims credit for every life Sebastian saves
Watching Sebastian soak up applause, House and Wilson argue whether he enjoys the adulation, and House stakes his claim.