Cuddy drafts House to teach a diagnostics class
House doubts the absent lecturer is sick, refuses, then haggles over clinic hours once Cuddy fails to stop him leaving.
S1E21 · Three Stories
19 moments · 34 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Stacy walks back into House's life asking him to save her husband
House's ex Stacy shows him her husband Mark's scans; House insults the man's pancreas and admits he's not sure he wants him to live.
House's lecture: three guys walk into a clinic with leg pain
House opens the class with a riddle, mocks textbook answers, and casts Carmen Electra as a stand-in patient in his story.
Cameron cares too much about the volleyball player
House uses Cameron's deep dive into a teen's heartbreak to show what caring does; she finds a nodule that forces a painful test.
The screaming golfer gets his Demerol, and the class gets played
House's pantless golfer stand-in screams until the doctors give Demerol; the pain vanishes and House explains he was a drug seeker.
Wilson tells House why Stacy came to him
During the break Wilson presses House on Stacy's husband: she doesn't hate House, she just can't stand to be around him.
Wrong snake: House tells students right and wrong exist
The venom volume rules out the rattlesnake; House makes students pick between two choices and says not knowing doesn't make you right.
House tests the returning drug seeker with a catheter
The golfer comes back in pain; instead of calling the cops House picks a tube without anaesthetic to see if he's really sick.
A rapid-fire differential, and time is not a fixed construct
The volleyball player screams at a touch; the team rattles off causes too fast for the class, and House reveals the cases are months apart.
Everybody lies: the dying farmer's dog gives him away
House tells the farmer he's dying; his worry for his dog exposes a bite he hid, and two doctors wrestle the dog for a swab.
Tea-colored urine, a useless student, and Cameron's muscle death
House drills a student on brown urine until he folds, then Cameron, sitting in, names muscle death as the answer.
House to the students: you are going to kill someone
House says the patient's own doctors missed it for three days, and that killing someone is part of medicine.
Three legs, three verdicts, and the third patient is House
Cancer, flesh-eating strep and an aneurysm: every story ends with possible amputation, and the room realizes the third patient was House.
House refuses amputation and picks the riskiest option
House tells Cuddy to save his leg with a bypass despite the risks; Stacy calls him an idiot and admits she's scared he'll die.
House diagnoses his own cardiac arrest from a hospital bed
After surgery House screams for morphine, Stacy hears of a middle-ground option, and House reads his own heart failure before he crashes.
House on near-death visions: just chemistry, by choice
After a dreamlike vision during a minute of death, House says he chooses to believe it's brain chemistry, not a test.
Stacy begs House to let them cut off his leg
With the pain not easing, Stacy asks why his life is worth less than hers; House still can't say yes.
Stacy uses her proxy while House sleeps
House asks for a coma to sleep through the pain; Stacy, his proxy, says goodbye and then signs for the middle-ground surgery.
The class argues Stacy's choice, then House calls her back
House lays out his lasting pain; students split on the proxy decision, the class runs over, and House phones Stacy to book Mark in.
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