PaternityA teenage boy experiences night terrors and hallucinations. The team discovers a rare form of measles in the brain caused by his mother not being vaccinated.
| Theme | Definition | Example Episodes | |-------|------------|------------------| | | Patients withhold crucial info; diagnosis requires digging. | Pilot , Fidelity , Role Model | | Differential Diagnosis | Team lists possible diseases, tests hypotheses. | Every episode’s clinic scene | | Vicodin as crutch | House’s addiction both hinders and enables his thinking. | Detox , Three Stories | | Ethical dilemmas | Treatment vs. patient autonomy, DNR, confidentiality. | DNR , Maternity , Babies & Bathwater | | House’s leg pain | Metaphor for emotional pain & refusal to change. | Three Stories , Honeymoon | | Clinic duty as punishment | House’s contempt for ordinary medicine. | Occam’s Razor , Poison | | Wilson as mediator | Wilson translates House to the world. | DNR , Control | | Cameron’s morality | Challenges House’s cold logic. | Damned If You Do , Kids | | Foreman’s pragmatism | Often agrees with House but resists becoming him. | Histories , Heavy | | Chase’s loyalty | Willing to break rules for House. | The Socratic Method , Mob Rules | index of house md season 1
(May 9, 2005) A professional thief comes to the hospital after a stunt goes wrong. | Pilot , Fidelity , Role Model |
(September 30, 2004) A patient's mysterious paralysis leads House to suspect one of his own hospital colleagues. patient autonomy, DNR, confidentiality
