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.
S2E4 · TB or Not TB
21 moments · 28 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
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.
Welcome aboard the Good Ship Ass-Kisser
Out of the room, Cameron backs Sebastian's TB theory, House mocks her, and the team lands on a heart rhythm problem.
Wilson teases House about Sebastian's shot at a Nobel
Wilson says House is jealous of a man who cures thousands; House compares him to fast food and rejects Nobel's blood money.
Clinic: the patient who inherited a dead mother's cat
A headache patient turns out allergic to a late mother's cat, and refuses every treatment House offers.
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.
Covering House's clinic, a doctor gets pushed into a biopsy
Standing in for House, a team doctor reassures a woman about a breast lump, but she demands a biopsy and says she'll go over his head.
Cameron's TB test backfires on House
Cameron ran the TB test House didn't order; it's positive, and now the patient won't allow any more tests.
House says Sebastian cheats by knowing the answer, then Cuddy brings a complaint
Over lunch House explains why one-diagnosis specialists annoy him; Cuddy demands an apology for a clinic patient he never saw.
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 catches Cameron putting on makeup for the press conference
Cameron will stand beside Sebastian on camera; House calls her a media whore and she cheerfully concedes.
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.
Bizarre is good: House finds a tumor too small to see
Low spinal fluid sugar points to insulin; House reasons it must be a tiny pancreatic tumor and wants to prove it by its effects.
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.
House tells Cameron we are who people think we are
House says Cameron was drawn to Sebastian's martyrdom and explains how he uses the labels people put on him.
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.
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