: House assumes the patient is withholding information, a theme reinforced when a search of her home reveals unwashed ham, hinting at a parasitic infection. The Final Diagnosis : After ruling out several conditions, House identifies neurocysticercosis —a brain infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae. Personal Connection
"She wouldn't. She'd drink it," House said, leaning back in his chair, balancing it on two legs. "Tetrahydrozoline in sufficient doses causes hypothermia, bradycardia, and—if you're unlucky—seizures and aphasia. She's poisoning herself." house md season 1 ep 1 full
House snaps: “No. We don’t know what’s killing her yet. That’s different.” : House assumes the patient is withholding information,
A student raises a hand. “What about the patient in the ER? Seizures, fever, hallucinations. The husband says she was healthy yesterday.” She'd drink it," House said, leaning back in
The fluorescent lights of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital hummed a sterile, indifferent hymn. In Diagnostic Medicine, a forgotten sub-basement kingdom, Dr. Gregory House sat in his throne of worn leather, a whiteboard covered in arcane scribbles behind him. He wasn't looking at it. He was staring at a crossword puzzle, a half-eaten pretzel in one hand, a burgeoning Vicodin addiction humming quietly in his leg.