Performance Reviews

Episode Index

2012-01-01T16:35:00.017-07:00

Introduction to Performance Reviews
List of diseases featured on the show

Summaries per season
Season One Episodes
Season Two Episodes
Season Three Episodes
Season Four Episodes
Season Five Episodes
Season Six Episodes

1.01 Pilot
1.02 Paternity
1.03 Occam's Razor
1.04 Maternity
1.05 Damned If You Do
1.06 The Socratic Method
1.07 Fidelity
1.08 Poison
1.09 DNR
1.10 Histories
1.11 Detox
1.12 Sports Medicine
1.13 Cursed
1.14 Control
1.15 Mob Rules
1.16 Heavy
1.17 Role Model
1.18 Babies and Bathwater
1.19 Kids
1.20 Love Hurts
1.21 Three Stories
1.22 Honeymoon

2.01 Acceptance
2.02 Autopsy
2.03 Humpty Dumpty
2.04 TB Or Not TB
2.05 Daddy's Boy
2.06 Spin
2.07 Hunting
2.08 The Mistake
2.09 Deception
2.10 Failure To Communicate
2.11 Need To Know
2.12 Distractions
2.13 Skin Deep
2.14 Sex Kills
2.15 Clueless
2.16 Safe
2.17 All In
2.18 Sleeping Dogs Lie
2.19 House vs. God
2.20 & 2.21 Euphoria
2.22 Forever
2.23 Who's Your Daddy?
2.24 No Reason

3.01 Meaning
3.02 Cane and Able
3.03 Informed Consent
3.04 Lines in the Sand
3.05 Fools For Love
3.06 Que Sera Sera
3.07 Son of a Coma Guy
3.08 Whac-A-Mole
3.09 Finding Judas
3.10 Merry Little Christmas
3.11 Words and Deeds
3.12 One Day, One Room
3.13 Needle in a Haystack
3.14 Insensitive
3.15 Half-Wit
3.16 Top Secret
3.17 Fetal Position
3.18 Airborne
3.19 Act Your Age
3.20 House Training
3.21 Family
3.22 Resignation
3.23 The Jerk
3.24 Human Error

4.01 Alone
4.02 The Right Stuff
4.03 97 Seconds
4.04 Guardian Angels
4.05 Mirror, Mirror
4.06 Whatever It Takes
4.07 Ugly
4.08 You Don't Want To Know
4.09 Games
4.10 It's a Wonderful Lie
4.11 Frozen
4.12 Don't Ever Change
4.13 No More Mister Nice Guy
4.14 Living The Dream
4.15 House's Head
4.16 Wilson's Heart

5.01 Dying Changes Everything
5.02 Not Cancer
5.03 Adverse Events
5.04 Birthmarks
5.05 Lucky Thirteen
5.06 Joy
5.07 The Itch
5.08 Emancipation
5.09 Last Resort
5.10 Let Them Eat Cake
5.11 Joy to the World
5.12 Painless
5.13 Big Baby
5.14 The Greater Good
5.15 Unfaithful
5.16 The Softer Side
5.17 The Social Contract
5.18 Here Kitty
5.19 Locked In
5.20 Simple Explanation
5.21 Saviours
5.22 House Divided
5.23 Under My Skin
5.24 Both Sides Now

6.03 Epic Fail
6.04 The Tyrant
6.05 Instant Karma
6.06 Brave Hearts
6.07 Known Unknowns
6.08 Teamwork
6.09 Ignorance Is Bliss
6.11 The Down Low
6.12 Remorse
6.13 Moving The Chains
6.15 Private Lives
6.16 Black Hole

Episodes 6.15 and 6.16

2010-03-22T19:18:00.005-06:00

Episode 6.14, 5 To 9, is not included here.

6.15 Private Lives

Initial symptoms: Woman with coagulopathy
Diagnosis: Whipple's disease (House)

Contributions by team:
House (2) Realizes patient is in liver failure because she has day/night reversal, diagnosis for Whipple's disease
Chase (1) Discovers patient's mitral valve needs to be replaced
Foreman (0)
Taub (0)
Thirteen (0)

Notes: Did no one notice the patient's appendix was about to burst? Or that her liver had failed?
Chase realized the patient had heart valve damage because it hurt her to lie on her back.
The patient was misdiagnosed with lymphoma. It wasn't said who made this misdiagnosis, specifically, so I'll chalk it up to a pathologist somewhere.

6.16 Black Hole

Initial symptoms: Girl with pulmonary edema
Diagnosis: Cerebellar schistosomiasis hypersensitivity allergy (Foreman)

Contributions by team:
House (2) Idea for cognitive recognition program, realized how patient had been exposed to parasite
Chase (0)
Foreman (1) Diagnosis for schistosomiasis allergy
Taub (0)
Thirteen (1) Suggests patient has an allergy

Notes: Thirteen first had the idea that the patient's symptoms were caused by an allergy. She suggested the patient was allergic to something "inside her", meaning the boyfriend's semen. Foreman later told House that the allergy could be caused by the Middle Eastern parasite schistosomiasis. House later deduced that the patient had been exposed to the parasite through sexual contact with her boyfriend's father.
Taub and Thirteen successfully operated on the patient's heart. Because they're cardiac surgeons now.
Foreman suggested a body scan, which should have showed the parasite.
House relied on the mind-reading technology to deduce how the patient had been exposed to the parasite. I don't need to say it but I will anyway: that technology does not exist.

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6.13 Moving The Chains

2010-02-02T19:22:00.007-07:00

Initial symptoms: Man who has had a violent episode which he can't remember
Diagnosis: Paraneoplastic syndrome (Chase) + melanoma (House)

Contributions by team
House (3): Discovers patient's GnRH (gonadotropin releasing hormone) levels are elevated, notices patient's palms are white, sees patient didn't lose weight in hospital
Chase (2): Notices patient's liver is inflamed, diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome
Foreman (1): Notices patient has cryoglobulinemai (patient's blood is clotting due to cold)
Taub (0)
Thirteen (0)

Notes: Chase suggested the patient had paraneoplastic syndrome, and House found the cancer causing it. He had melanoma, which the team hadn't thought to look for because he was African American.

6.12 Remorse

2010-01-26T21:23:00.003-07:00

Initial symptoms: Woman with severe ear pain
Diagnosis: Wilson's disease (House)

Contributions by team
House (2): tells team the patient's psychopathy is a symptom, diagnosis for Wilson's disease
Chase (1): suggests change in patient's diet could have caused illness
Foreman (0)
Taub (0)
Thirteen (2): realizes patient is a psychopath, discovers patient's psychopathy is a symptom

Notes: House suggested at the beginning that the patient's psychopathy was a symptom of her physical illness, then abandoned the idea. Thirteen identified it as a symptom after talking to the patient's sister. They both receive credit.
House, stop irradiating patients.
House told Thirteen to test the patient for Wilson's disease, she later said "we ruled it out", but the patient had Wilson's disease after all. Thirteen receives an Error.

Episodes 6.08 to 6.11

2010-01-17T17:26:00.004-07:00

Episode 6.10, Wilson, is not included here.

6.08 Teamwork

Initial Symptoms: Man with severe headache + photophobia
Diagnosis: Strongyloides (Chase) + extraintestinal Crohn's disease (House + Taub + Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for Crohn's disease
Cameron (1): Saw patient's liver is failing
Chase (2): Noticed rash on patient's legs, diagnosis for strongyloides
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for strongyloides
Taub (1): Diagnosis for Crohn's disease
Thirteen (1): Diagnosis for Crohn's disease

Notes:
I'm going to assume Cameron was correct when she accused House of knowing the final diagnosis. Because they each arrived at it separately, House, Taub and Thirteen all receive credit.
The team discovered the threadworm infection by performing an endoscopic exam of the bile duct, which they did because someone suggested the patient had a disease that damages bile ducts. That person gets credit for the Diagnosis, but who was it?! I can't remember, the Fox recap said it was Chase, and Polite Dissent said it was Foreman. I'm saying it was Chase but please tell me if I'm mistaken.
In this episode the team officially consisted of Foreman, Cameron and Chase, but House dragged Thirteen and Taub in as well. At the end the final composition of the team going forward is Foreman, Chase, Taub and Thirteen.
Goodbye Cameron, who left the show at the end of the episode.

6.09 Ignorance Is Bliss

Initial Symptoms: Man with ataxia + anemia + cough
Diagnosis: Dextromethorphan abuse (House) + thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realized patient was abusing DXM, realized patient had multiple spleens
Chase (3): Diagnosis for TTP, saw patient was having stroke, found hidden vodka & cough medicine
Foreman (1): Suggested toxins
Taub (1): Deduced patient was in kidney failure
Thirteen (1): Confirmed TTP by finding schistocytes in patient's blood

Notes:
I'm calling the "robo tripping" a separate diagnosis, because while it turned out to be irrelevant to the illness that put him in the hospital it can't be a good idea to poison your brain.
Chase's diagnosis of TTP was rejected after the patient failed to improve following a splenectomy. House then learned that the patient had broken his ribs years earlier and realized that the trauma had caused his spleen to split off and grow into multiple spleens, and Chase's suggestion of TTP was correct. I'm awarding Chase the Diagnosis for TTP and House a point for realizing it was correct and why.
You would think Chase would have seen the extra spleens before the splenectomy, but since House did not indicate it was Chase's fault that he didn't I'm not giving him an Error.
Another character named James?! Is this an in joke by the writers or something?

6.11 The Down Low

Initial Symptoms: Man with vertigo induced by loud noises
Diagnosis: Hughes-Stovin syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realized patient is using beta blockers, diagnosis for Hughes-Stovin syndrome
Chase (1): Noticed patient's heart rate didn't increase during a painful procedure
Foreman (0)
Taub (0)
Thirteen (0)

Notes:
The patient died in the end because his illness was too advanced to treat. The explanation was that he was treating his first symptom, hypertension, with beta blockers and that the team couldn't have cured him if they'd diagnosed him sooner.

Recommendation: House and the Philosophy of Nietzsche

2009-11-27T17:06:00.006-07:00

Scholar Bernadette Dahan-Delelis has written a series of five articles on Dr. House as the Superman that philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described in his famous work Thus Spake Zarathustra. The first two have been posted in English by translator Heather Graham, and the remaining articles should be posted soon. This link is to the first article, with the second article linked at the bottom. The original French versions will be available at this website. Thanks very much to both Bernadette and Heather for their hard work and for giving me permission to post these fascinating articles. Go read!

6.07 Known Unknowns

2009-11-10T19:12:00.006-07:00

Initial symptoms: Girl with swollen ankles + hands + collapse
Diagnosis: Vibrio vulnificus infection from oysters (House) + hemochromatosis (House)

Contributions by team:
House (4): Realizes patient had low blood potassium, deduces patient was lying, diagnosis for food poisoning, diagnosis for hemochromatosis
Chase (0)
Cameron (2): Idea to test food, suggests patient's illness is caused by a toxin
Foreman (3): Says food may have caused illness, realizes patient has brain damage causing her to lie, sees on scan that patient isn't telling truth during truth serum test
Taub (N/A): Not in episode
Thirteen (N/A): Not in episode

Notes: I'm assuming House was correct about the patient's blood potassium levels being low the night before.
House is awarded a point for deducing that the patient was lying because that's how the team learned she had eaten oysters. At that point they didn't need further information to make their diagnosis, so further attempts to learn what happened the night before don't earn points.
Cameron loses a point for giving the patient vitamin supplements for the bulemia she didn't have, dosing her with iron that proved to be causing her illness.
Again the medicine didn't make much sense, I'm afraid, plus this is the third time they've used hemochromatosis. Hemochromatosis really does make people more vulnerable to this type of infection, however.

6.06 Brave Hearts

2009-10-20T20:55:00.005-06:00

This is my 100th post!

Initial symptoms: Man with family history of premature death by cardiac arrest
Diagnosis: Cerebral aneurysm (House)

Contributions by team:
House (1): Diagnosis for berry aneurysm
Cameron (0)
Chase (0)
Foreman (0)
Taub (N/A): Not in episode
Thirteen (N/A): Not in episode

Notes: House receives an error for sending the patient home without a diagnosis, or rather with a fake diagnosis.
The emergency technicians are responsible for wrongfully pronouncing the patient dead, Foreman and House do not receive an error.
Cameron receives an error for ignoring the patient's complaint of jaw pain. Not only was it a symptom, but jaw pain can indicate a heart attack - exactly what this patient was in danger of having.
The medicine was pretty shaky. Why didn't they test for Wilson's disease, instead of treating for it?

6.04 The Tyrant and 6.05 Instant Karma

2009-10-13T20:42:00.004-06:00

6.04 The Tyrant

Initial symptoms: Man coughing blood
Diagnosis: Blastomycosis (Foreman)

Contributions by Team
House (0)
Cameron (0)
Chase (1): Observes hemorrhage in patient's eye
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for blastomycosis
Taub (N/A): Not in episode
Thirteen (N/A): Not part of differential

Notes:
The original team is back together, with Foreman heading the department and House participating in an unofficial capacity. Thirteen and Taub are no longer on the team, but I'm assuming they'll be back.
It will never be known for certain but the characters seemed to assume that Foreman's diagnosis was the correct one, so I'm awarding it to him.
Foreman does not lose a point for not sticking to his diagnosis. I considered it, but it was the kind of judgment call the team makes all the time. I also considered docking Cameron a point for lying about the patient's mental state to his aide, but didn't because it's impossible to know how wrong she was and it didn't really affect his treatment.
Chase loses a point for murdering the patient. He should lose ALL points but I'll stick to just one.

6.05 Instant Karma

Initial symptoms: Boy with abominal pain + fever + weight loss + dehydration
Diagnosis: Primary antiphospholipid syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for primary antiphospholipid syndrome
Cameron (2): sees patient has fecal impaction, notices rash
Chase (0)
Foreman (1): spots irregularity on heat CT
Taub (N/A): Not in episode
Thirteen (N/A): Not part of differential

Notes:
I'm assuming that what Foreman saw on the head CT was real and a symptom, but I could be wrong.

Season Five Summary

2009-10-04T21:55:00.003-06:00

I regret that without transcripts I don't feel I can come up with an accurate tally of points, so I'm going to just count actual diagnoses.

In season five the team consisted of House, Foreman, Kutner, Taub and Thirteen. Kutner left the show after episode 19. Chase and Cameron participated occasionally.

There were 24 episodes, and a total of 28 patients. Three of these patients died and 25 were saved, giving House's patients a survival rate of 89%. There were two patients in Not Cancer, Joy, Emancipation, and Simple Explanation. One patient died in Not Cancer and one in Simple Explanation because their illnesses were not diagnosed in time, as did the patient in Joy to the World. One of the patients in Emancipation was treated and diagnosed by Foreman alone, with assistance from Chase and Cameron.

Cuddy diagnosed the doomed patient in Joy to the World, and Wilson was given co-credit for the diagnosis in Birthmarks. The patient in the season finale Both Sides Now was diagnosed by his own girlfriend. Cameron had two diagnoses of her own, one in Last Resort and one in Simple Explanation, which is very good considering she's no longer on House's team!

Thirteen lead the Housepets with three diagnoses (in Emancipation, Joy to the World and Painless). Foreman had two diagnoses, in Emancipation and The Softer Side. Kutner had the epiphany moment in his final episode Locked In and Taub had the diagnosis in House Divided (if I'm remembering the episode correctly).

House outdiagnosed them all with 23 diagnoses (remember that many episodes have more than one diagnosis). I haven't done an analysis but I believe he's getting the diagnosis much more often than he did in seasons 1 or 2. I doubt this is deliberate on behalf of the writers.

In five seasons, House and his team(s) have diagnosed 124 patients. Of those, 107 were saved. That's an overall survival rate of 86%.

6.03 Epic Fail

2009-10-04T17:50:00.002-06:00

The season premiere, which counted as episodes 6.01 and 6.02, is not included here.

Initial Symptoms: Man with burning pain in hands
Diagnosis: Fabry's disease (Foreman + House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for Fabry's disease
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for Fabry's disease
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
Foreman, Thirteen and Taub were on their own this episode, and Taub quit toward the end.
Foreman and House came up with the diagnosis independently of each other, so both receive credit.

Season 5, Episodes 17 to 24

2009-10-04T17:29:00.007-06:00

I'm back! Again, without transcripts these summaries are brief. I'll post a season summary later but given the sketchiness of my reviews without transcripts, my results will not be as precise as I'd like.

5.17 The Social Contract

Initial Symptoms: Man with frontal lobe disinhibition + nosebleed
Diagnosis: Doege-Potter Syndrome (House) + autoimmune reaction to tumor (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for Doege-Potter Syndrome, diagnosis for autoimmune reaction
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (2): Sees patient's kidneys are failing, orders full body scan
Kutner (0): None
Taub (1): Suggests diabetes
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
The team saw the fibroma on the patient's full body scan, but misdiagnosed it as a lung cyst.
Taub gets a point for suggesting diabetes because the glucose tolerance test House ordered based on Taub's suggestion provided a vital clue. Doege-Potter Syndrome causes hypoglycemia.

5.18 Here Kitty

Initial Symptoms: Woman with bronchospasm
Diagnosis: Carcinoid tumour in appendix (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Sees patient's rash, diagnosis for carcinoid tumour
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (1): Sees spider veins on patient's back
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
"Death cat" was based on a true story.
The patient faked an illness to get to see House. I'm only counting what happened after they determined she really was ill, but it's worth noting that Taub deduced she'd faked her symptoms with methylene blue.
I don't know what caused the brown urine in the end. Also, why didn't they notice at the beginning that the patient's temperature was elevated?

5.19 Locked In

Initial Symptoms: Man with locked in syndrome
Diagnosis: Leptospirosis (Kutner)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Sees patient isn't brain dead, realizes patient has liver failure
Cameron (0)
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (1): Diagnosis for leptospirosis
Taub (1): Idea for brain-computer interface
Thirteen (2): Observes patient has bloody urine, diagnoses ulcerative keratitis.

Notes:
Diagnosis was complicated because the patient couldn't speak.
The infection caused liver failure, which caused the locked in syndrome. The medical reviewer at Polite Dissent noted this didn't make much sense. Notice that the patient's original doctor thought the locked in syndrome was caused by an infection.
Cameron suggested that the team perform a lumbar puncture, but they were unable to complete because the patient went into cardiac arrest. I'm not sure if the lumbar puncture would have helped to diagnose leptospirosis, so I'm not awarding a point for it.

5.20 Simple Explanation

There was only supposed to be one patient this week, but instead there were two. Patient A was Eddie, dying of heart failure supposedly caused by lung cancer, and patient B was his wife who was the team's original patient.

Case A

Initial Symptoms: Man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer
Diagnosis: Blastomycosis (Cameron)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Confirmed Cameron's diagnosis
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for blastomycosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Taub (1): Observes that patients' heath were connected and used this to help them
Thirteen (0): None

Case B

Initial Symptoms: Woman with acute respiratory failure
Diagnosis: Visceral leishmaniasis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Realizes patient is faking symptoms, observes muscle atrophy in left leg, diagnosis for visceral leishmaniasis
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (1): Notices scarring on liver
Foreman (0): None
Taub (1): Sees patient has an infection
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
Cameron observed nodules on Eddie's fingers and told House that he may not have lung cancer. House investigated and determined that Cameron was correct, Eddie had a fungal infection. Cameron was awarded the Diagnosis because although she didn't identify the disease, she was the only one who recognized the patient was incorrectly diagnosed. Without her he would have died. Nice going, Eddie's original doctors.
Charlotte, patient B, died because her infection was diagnosed too late.
RIP Kutner, who committed suicide at the beginning of the episode.

5.21 Saviours

Initial Symptoms: Man unable to stand
Diagnosis: Sporotrichosis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Sees swelling on patient's neck is crepitus, diagnosis for sporotrichosis
Cameron (1): Sees patient's chronic hiccups are a symptom
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (2): Observes swelling on patient's neck, rules out bone cancer with bone biopsy
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
Cameron fully participated in the differential diagnosis and patient treatment.

5.22 House Divided

Initial Symptoms: Deaf boy with exploding head syndrome
Diagnosis: Sarcoidosis (Taub)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Discovers patient has neuropathy, idea to compare past and present brain MRIs, realizes patient has arrhythmia
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (1): Sees nerve inflammation during brain biopsy
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for sarcoidosis
Taub (1): Diagnosis for sarcoidosis
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
House and Chase both lose points for installing a cochlear implant in the patient without consent: House for doing it, and Chase for falling for House's lies.
I may be remembering wrong but I think that Taub was the first to suggest sarcoidosis. Foreman later realized that the patient's chewing tobacco habit suppressed his immune system, hiding the symptoms. I'm therefore awarding Taub credit for the Diagnosis and Foreman credit for realizing Taub was right.

5.23 Under My Skin

Initial Symptoms: Woman with collapsed lungs
Diagnosis: Gonorrhea (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for gonorrhea, diagnosis for toxic epidermal necrolysis, idea to stop heart to obtain MRI image
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Spots heart abscess on MRI
Taub (1): Idea to use vasodilators to save patient's hands and feet
Thirteen (0): None

Notes:
Whose idea was it to give the patient dopamine to stabilize her so that Chase could remove the abscess? Did they say? That person gets a point.

5.24 Both Sides Now

Initial Symptoms: Man with alien hand syndrome + bloody tears + loss of sense of taste
Diagnosis: Propylene glycol poisoning

Contributions by Team
House (2): Observes that patient has liver failure, realizes source of blood clots
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Suggests blood clotting issue
Taub (1): Realizes the patient has propylene glycol poisoning
Thirteen (1): Observes splinter hemorrhages underneath patient's fingernails

Notes:
There's just no way around it, the patient's girlfriend diagnosed him. House's team can't claim credit for it. She suggested to Thirteen and Taub that his deodorant was causing the problem, and their research confirmed which ingredient was the culprit. I've awarded a point to Taub because it appeared that he was the one to narrow it down to propylene glycol, but it's possible he was taking the credit for Thirteen's discovery.
Wilson counseled the patient on how to handle his alien hand, and he seemed to be correct: after hearing his advice, the patient's hand never acted up again.

Featured Diseases

2009-05-18T14:46:00.026-06:00

Abdominal tuberculoma in 1.10 Histories
Abuse / violence (see also Sexual abuse) in 3.12 One Day, One Room
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) (also see Porphyria) in 1.22 Honeymoon
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in 6.10 Wilson
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in 5.08 Emancipation
Addison's disease in 3.01 Meaning
African sleeping sickness in 1.07 Fidelity
AIDS see HIV / AIDS
Alcohol / drug abuse in 1.06 The Socratic Method, 1.12 Sports Medicine, 2.11 Need To Know, 3.07 Son of a Coma Guy, 4.01 Alone, 4.09 Games, 5.14 Unfaithful, 6.09 Ignorance Is Bliss
Alien hand syndrome see Split brain
Allergic vasculitis in 4.14 Living the Dream
Alveolar rhabdomyosacrcoma in 2.02 Autopsy
Amantadine poisoning in 4.16 Wilson's Heart
Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis (see also Amyloidosis) in 3.03 Informed Consent
Amyloidosis in 3.02 Informed Consent
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (also see Intersexuality) in 2.13 Skin Deep
Anthrax in 1.13 Cursed
Arsenic poisoning in 5.08 Emancipation
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in 1.09 DNR
Assisted suicide in 3.03 Informed Consent (see also Euthanasia), 6.07 Known Unknowns
Autism in 3.04 Lines in the Sand
Baylisascaris infection see Raccoon roundworm infection
Behcet's disease in 2.08 The Mistake
Benign tumor in 2.02 Autopsy, 2.11 Need To Know
Bipolar disorder in 2.10 Failure to Communicate, 6.01 Broken
Blastomycosis in 5.20 Simple Explanation, 6.04 The Tyrant
Blood transfusion, blood type mismatch in 4.08 You Don't Want To Know
Brain aneurysm see Cerebral aneurysm
Breast cancer in 4.10 It's a Wonderful Lie
Broken heart syndrome in 3.11 Words and Deeds
Brucellosis in 2.14 Sex Kills
Bubonic plague in 2.18 Sleeping Dogs Lie
Bulimia in 1.14 Control
Burns in 2.12 Distractions
Cadmium poisoning in 1.12 Sports Medicine
Carcinoid tumor in 5.18 Here Kitty
Cavernous angioma in 2.05 Daddy's Boy
Celiac disease in 2.22 Forever
Cerebellar schistosomiasis hypersensitivity allergy see Schistosomiasis
Cerebral aneurysm in 6.06 Brave Hearts
Chagas disease in 4.13 No More Mr. Nice Guy
Chimerism in 3.02 Cane and Able
Chronic ganulomatous disease in 3.08 Whac-A-Mole
Chronic insensitivity to pain (CIPA) in 3.14 Insensitive
Chronic pain in 5.12 Painless
Cochlear implants in 5.22 House Divided
Common variable immune deficiency (CVID) in 1.17 Role Model
Coma see Vegetative state
Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) in 3.17 Fetal Position
Congenital erythropoietic porphyria (see also Porphyria) in 3.09 Finding Judas
Congestive heart failure in 1.14 Control
Conversion disorder in 2.13 Skin Deep, 3.08 Whac-A-Mole
Copper allergy in 1.05 Damned If You Do
Crohn's disease in 6.08 Teamwork
Cushing's disease in 1.16 Heavy
Deafness in 5.22 House Divided
Deformity in 4.07 Ugly
Depression (see also Suicide) in 3.22 Resignation, 5.12 Painless, 5.20 Simple Explanation, 6.02 Broken
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in 2.03 Humpty Dumpty
Doege-Potter syndrome in 5.17 The Social Contract
Dwarfism in 3.10 Merry Little Christmas
Echinococcus infection in 2.07 Hunting
Eclampsia in 5.5.11 Joy to the World
Ectopic pregnancy in 5.01 Dying Changes Everything
Encephalitis see Herpes encephalitis
Endocarditis in 3.20 House Training
Enterovirus infection in 1.04 Maternity
Environmental dependancy syndrome in 4.05 Mirror, Mirror
Eperythrozoon infection in 4.05 Mirror, Mirror
Epilepsy in 5.12 Painless
Epstein-Barr virus in 1.17 Role Model
Erdheim-Chester disease in 2.17 All In
Ergot poisoning in 4.04 Guardian Angels
Euthanasia in 3.03 Informed Consent (see also Assisted suicide), 6.07 Known Unknowns
Fabry's disease in 6.03 Epic Fail
Familial Mediterranean fever in 5.06 Joy
Food poisoning in 2.14 Sex Kills, 4.04 Guardian Angels, 6.07 Known Unknowns
Frontal lobe disinhibition in 5.17 The Social Contract
Genetic mosaicism (see also Intersexuality) in 5.15 The Softer Side
Giovannini mirror syndrome see Environmental dependency syndrome
Gold poisoning in 2.15 Clueless
Gonorrhea in 2.14 Sex Kills, 5.23 Under My Skin
Graft vs host disease in 3.21 Family
Hallucinogenic mushrooms in 5.11 Joy to the World
Heart defect in 3.24 Human Error, 5.13 Big Baby
Hemochromatosis in 2.23 Who's Your Daddy?, 3.23 The Jerk, 6.07 Known Unknowns
Hepatitis C in 1.15 Mob Rules, 2.08 The Mistake
Hereditary angioedema in 3.05 Fools For Love
Hereditary coproporphyria (see also Porphyria) in 5.10 Let Them Eat Cake
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in 3.16 Top Secret
Herpes encephalitis in 2.05 Damned If You Do, 2.19 House vs God
Histoplasmosis in 3.21 Family
HIV / AIDS in 2.07 Hunting
Hughes-Stovin syndrome in 6.11 The Down Low
Huntington's disease in 4.08 You Don't Want To Know, 5.10 Let Them Eat Cake
Hysteria see Mass hysteria
Hypersensitivity in 1.05 Damned If You Do, 6.16 Black Hole
Incest see Sexual abuse
Intersexuality in 2.13 Skin Deep, 5.15 The Softer Side
Ipecac abuse in 1.14 Control
Iron toxicity in 5.08 Emancipation
Langerhans cell histiocytosis in 3.10 Merry Little Christmas
Lead poisoning in 5.07 The Itch
Legionnaire's disease in 2.20&2.21 Euphoria
Leishmaniasis in 5.20 Simple Explanation
Leprosy in 1.13 Cursed, 5.01 Dying Changes Everything
Leptospirosis in 5.19 Locked In
Liver cancer in 1.05 The Socratic Method, 2.08 The Mistake
Locked-in syndrome in 5.19 Locked In
Lung cancer in 1.18 Babies and Bathwater, 3.06 Que Sera Sera
Lupus in 4.08 You Don't Want To Know
Lyme disease in 4.07 Ugly
Malaria in 2.10 Failure To Communicate
Male menopause in 3.11 Words and Deeds
Mass hysteria in 3.18 Airborne
Maternal mirror syndrome in 3.17 Fetal Position
Melanoma in 6.13 Moving The Chains
Melioidosis in 5.09 Last Resort
Meningioma in 3.11 Words and Deeds
MERRF Myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fiber disease in 3.07 Son of a Coma Guy
Methanol poisoning in 2.01 Acceptance
Methyl bromide poisoning in 3.18 Airborne
Munchausen's syndrome in 2.09 Deception
Myasthenia gravis in 2.06 Spin
Naegleria infection in 2.20&2.21 Euphoria
Naphthalene poisoning in 1.11 Detox
Necrotizing fascitis in 1.21 Three Stories
Nephroptosis in 4.12 Don't Ever Change
Nesidioblastoma in 2.04 TB Or Not TB
Neurosyphilis in 3.15 Half-Wit
Organ donation in 1.14 Control, 2.14 Sex Kills, 5.02 Not Cancer
Organophosphate poisoning in 1.08 Poison
Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTD) in 1.15 Mob Rules
Osteomyelitis in 1.20 Love Hurts
Osteosarcoma in 1.21 Three Stories
Pancreatic cancer in 5.24 Both Sides Now
Paraneoplastic syndrome in 1.18 Babies and Bathwater, 2.13 Skin Deep, 3.06 It's a Wonderful Lie, 6.13 Moving The Chains
Parthenogenesis (virgin birth) in 5.11 Joy to the World
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in 5.13 Big Baby
Peptic ulcer in 2.08 The Mistake
Phantom limb pain in 6.04 The Tyrant
Pheochromocytoma in 4.02 The Right Stuff, 2.01 Acceptance
Pica in 3.04 Lines in the Sand
Pituitary tumor in 3.10 Merry Little Christmas
Placental abruption in 5.06 Joy
Popcorn lung in 6.10 Wilson
Porphyria in 1.22 Honeymoon, 3. 09 Finding Judas, 5.10 Let Them Eat Cake
Precocious puberty in 3.19 Act Your Age
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in 2.20&2.21 Euphoria
Primary antiphospholipid syndrome in 6.05 Instant Karma
Propylene glycol poisoning in 5.24 Both Sides Now
Psittacosis in 2.03 Humpty Dumpty
Psychopathy in 6.12 Remorse
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) in 2.06 Spin
Rabies in 1.10 Histories
Raccoon roundworm infection in 3.04 Lines in the Sand
Radiation poisoning in 2.05 Daddy's Boy
Ragged red fiber disease see MERRF
Rape see Sexual abuse
Retroperitoneal bleed in 3.15 Half-Wit
Sarcoidosis in 5.22 House Divided, 6.04 The Tyrant
Schistosomiasis in 6.16 Black Hole
Scurvy in 3.01 Meaning
Serotonin syndrome in 2.12 Distractions, 4.01 Alone
Sexual abuse / Rape in 2.13 Skin Deep, 3.12 One Day, One Room
Sjogren's syndrome in 5.05 Lucky Thirteen
Sleeping sickness see African sleeping sickness
Spinal meningioma see Meningioma
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in 4.03 97 Seconds
Split brain in 5.24 Both Sides Now
Sporotrichosis in 5.21 Saviors
Stomach cancer in 2.22 Forever
Stomach ulcer see Peptic ulcer
Stroke in 1.09 DNR, 2.02 Autopsy
Strongyloides infection in 4.03 97 Seconds and 6.08 Teamwork
Subacute sclerosis panencephalitis in 1.02 Paternity
Suicide in 5.20 Simple Explanation
Syphilis see Neurosyphilis
Takayasu's arteritis in 3.15 Half-Wit
Tapeworm in 1.01 Pilot, 3.14 Insensitive
Testicular cancer in 2.13 Skin Deep
Thallium poisoning in 4.06 Whatever It Takes
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpurea (TTP) in 1.19 Kids and 6.09 Ignorance Is Bliss
Thymoma in 2.06 Spin
Tick paralysis in 2.16 Safe
Toxic epidermal necrolysis in 5.23 Under My Skin
Tuberculosis (TB) in 2.04 TB Or Not TB
Tuberous sclerosis in 2.19 House vs God
Urinary tract obstruction in 3.17 Fetal Position
Vegetative state in 3.01 Meaning, 3.07 Son of a Coma Guy
Vasculitis see also Allergic vasculitis, Behcet's disease, Takayasu's arteritis
Vibrio vulnificus infection in 6.07 Known Unknowns
Visceral leishmaniasis see Leishmaniasis
Vitamin K deficiency in 1.06 The Socratic Method
Von Hipple-Lindau disease in 4.02 The Right Stuff
Whipple's disease in 6.15 Private Lives
Wilson's disease in 1.06 The Socratic Method and 6.12 Remorse
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in 5.14 Unfaithful
Zygomycosis infection in 2.23 Who's Your Daddy?

Season 5, Episodes 12-16

2009-05-17T12:31:00.003-06:00

5.12 Painless

Initial Symptoms: Man with chronic pain
Diagnosis: Epilepsy (Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Realizes patient has attempted suicide by blowing air into his IV, idea for spinal block procedure, realizes patient drank rubbing alcohol in suicide attempt, diagnosis for epilepsy
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Orders CT test which finds intestinal edema + air in blood vessels
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (2): Diagnosis for pulmonary embolism, suggests non-motor seizures

Notes: I'm fuzzy on this, but I believe that what Thirteen was suggesting when she said "non-motor seizures" is what House eventually diagnosed him with. Therefore, Thirteen gets the credit.
The patient attempted suicide twice in the hospital. These were not considered diagnoses unto themselves, but House received credit for deducing the attempts.

5.13 Big Baby

Initial Symptoms: Woman coughing blood
Diagnosis: Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Orders bleeding test, diagnosis for PDA
Cameron (0): None
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (1): Finds pleural effusions with ERCP test
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: Cameron loses a point for allowing House to cut off the top of the patient's head. (There's a sentence I never thought I would type.)

5.14 The Greater Good

Initial Symptoms: Woman with spontaneous pneumothorax + history of uterine myoma
Diagnosis: Endometriosis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for endometriosis
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Spots something on MRI (I'm not sure what it really was, he thought it was a granuloma)
Kutner (1): Spots increased interstisal markings on CT
Taub (1): Sees patient is bleeding into her abdominal cavity
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: The liver failure was never explained. Was it because she was bleeding from her hepatic artery?
The part about the patient scratching through her skull may have been taken from this story.
Foreman and Thirteen didn't contribute much to the differential because they had their own drama going on.

5.15 Unfaithful

Initial Symptom: Man with hallucination
Diagnosis: Alcoholism (House) + Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for alcohol abuse, diagnosis for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome
Cameron (1): Diagnoses alcohol abuse
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (0): None
Taub (2): Finds patient has pneumocystis (indicative of compromised immune system), suggests hyper IgE syndrome (genetic immune disorder)
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: The patient enters the ER with a hallucination, which Cameron attributes to alcohol abuse. House brings the case to the team as a "fake", which everyone quickly figures out. The patient ends up getting sick for real (his toe falls off), and the hallucination is considered the first symptom. House finally diagnoses the patient by attributing the hallucination to alcohol. Therefore House is credited with diagnosing the patient, but Cameron receives a point too.

5.16 The Softer Side

Initial Symptoms: Child with genetic mosaicism + severe abdominal pain
Diagnosis: Dehydration (Foreman) + kidney damage (House) + poisoning from MRI contrast (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes patient's kidneys are damaged from energy drinks, diagnosis for dye poisoning
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for dehydration
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (2): Sees patient is in cardiac tamponade, notices patient's palms are red indicating kidney damage

Notes: It's confusing but I'm attributing the patient's initial symptom, abdominal pain, to dehydration + kidney damage from energy drinks (and seriously, how much of that stuff was he drinking?) and his subsequent symptoms to poisoning from the MRI contrast.
Unlike House himself, I'm not docking him a point for giving the patient the MRI which caused his illness.
I don't remember if Chase was the surgeon who found the gastric fistula caused by necrotizing pancreatitis. He gets a point if it was.
Thirteen loses a point for telling the parents that their son was suicidal when he wasn't and for giving the patient the truth about his condition. I'm docking her this point because it caused a rift between a seriously ill child and his parents, right when he most needed to trust them.
House was absent for part of the case.

Season 5, Episodes 7-11

2009-05-17T11:47:00.005-06:00

I know I haven't updated in a while, but I am catching up. I will complete season 5 and am also considering adding a list of diseases discussed on the show.
As I discussed in my previous post, my reviews here have suffered because I no longer have transcripts to go by. I will continue to post my abbreviated versions. This is complicated by the fact that I waited so long to write them that I'm having trouble remembering what happened!

5.07 The Itch

Initial Symptoms: Man with agoraphobia + headache + seizures
Diagnosis: Lead poisoning from bullets left inside patient after a shooting (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes patient's bowel is obstructed, diagnosis for lead poisoning
Cameron (2): Persuades patient to allow team to keep treating him, observes flattened villi in bowel
Chase (0): None
Foreman (1): Idea to perform EEG to diagnose cause of seizures
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: The team was limited while diagnosing and treating this patient, as he refused to leave his home.
Removing the bullet fragments without anaesthesia was brutal even by House's own standards.
I'm assuming the partial bowel obstruction was also caused by the lead poisoning.
House spent a lot of the episode trying to force the patient to go to the hospital against his wishes. I'm calling this a value judgment and therefore am not awarding or deducting points around this issue.
Taub loses a point for igniting the patient's intestinal gas during the surgery, but that may be excusable given the circumstances under which he performed the surgery.

5.08 Emancipation

There were two cases for the Housepets this week. Foreman diagnosed a clinic patient with help from Chase and Cameron.

Case A
Initial Symptoms: Girl with pulmonary edema
Diagnosis: Arsenic poisoning (House) + acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) (Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for arsenic poisoning, gets patient to admit truth and contact her family
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (1): Notices blood in patient's urine
Kutner (1): Observes on fMRI that patient is lying about her family
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (1): Diagnosis for APL

Notes: I'm assuming that the arsenic poisoning was contributing to her symptoms, or that it would have made her sick if she hadn't also had APL (which is treated with arsenic).
From the patient's fMRI Kutner deduces that the patient is lying about her parents, and House later figures out that she's lying from guilt and persuades her to contact her family. Because the patient is a minor and (according to the show) would need a bone marrow transplant to save her life, I'm awarding points for this.

Case B
Initial Symptoms: Boy with lethargy, diarrhea, bloody vomiting
Diagnosis: Iron toxicity from too many vitamins (Foreman)

Contributions by Team
House (N/A): Refuses to participate in diagnosis
Cameron (0): None
Chase (1): Suggests patient is being poisoned by his mother or brother
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for iron toxicity
Kutner (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Taub (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Thirteen (N/A): Not part of diagnosis

Notes: I'm going to brag here: I called the patient's brother poisoning him long before Foreman figured it out. But then I think most of the audience did.

5.09 Last Resort

Initial Symptoms: Man with lack of breath, fatigue, headaches, stomach aches, skin rashes, heart palpitations, insomnia
Diagnosis: Melioidosis (Cameron)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Observes patient has low lung volume, diagnoses seventh-nerve palsy, observes patient is sweating on just one side of his face, diagnoses patient with low calcium (Chvostek's sign)
Cameron (2): Suggests patient's medications have been protecting his kidneys, diagnosis for melioidosis
Chase (N/A): Refuses to participate in diagnosis
Foreman (1): Suggests chronic lung infection
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (2): Observes patient has high heart rate, suggests chemical cardioversion to restore heart rate

Notes: Diagnosis was complicated by the patient, you know, holding House and Thirteen hostage.
The medicine was confusing. If the writers can't keep it straight, don't expect me to; I'm just doing the best I can.
Since chronis melioidosis can affect the brain, I'm assuming here that the patient's palsy and anhidrosis (sweating on one side of his face) were symptoms.

5.10 Let Them Eat Cake

Initial Symptoms: Woman with difficultly breathing
Diagnosis: Hereditary coproporphyria (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for hereditary coproporphyria
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (0): None
Taub (1): Sees problem has spread to the patient's muscles
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: Either Kutner or Taub noticed that the patient had lost sensation in her foot, but I don't remember which.

5.11 Joy to the World

Initial Symptoms: Girl with hallucinations, vomiting, liver failure
Diagnosis: Eclampsia (Cuddy) + poisoning with hallucinogenic mushroom (Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Notices high alkaline phosphate levels in patient's blood, stops Wilson and Cuddy from putting patient on chemotherapy
Cameron (N/A): Not part of diagnosis
Chase (1): Gets students to admit to poisoning patient
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (1): Diagnosis for hallucinogen poisoning

Notes: Yay, Cuddy got the diagnosis! She also found the patient's abandoned baby.

Update: Season 5, Episodes 1-6

2008-11-06T22:28:00.004-07:00

I haven't been posting my analyses for Season 5 for two reasons. First, I haven't been able to find transcripts. Second, the medicine has gotten so confusing that sometimes I'm not even sure what the final diagnosis is. Here is a breakdown of diagnoses for the first six episodes of Season 5, but this doesn't include points. Sorry. I hope I can go back to analysis one day, but in the meantime I'm grateful to Scott at Polite Dissent for posting medical reviews of the show. What follows is pretty much cribbed from him, and the Fox recaps.

5.01 Dying Changes Everything
Initial Symptoms: Woman with hallucinations, abdominal pain, anemia, bradycardia, memory loss
Diagnosis: Ectopic pregnancy (House) + lepromatous leprosy (House)

Notes: How could the team have missed the ectopic pregnancy? Kutner should lose a point for that.
Foreman should lose a point for giving the patient chemotherapy which would have killed her if House hadn't diagnosed her infection in time.
Someone suggested she had an infection picked up while traveling, which was the case.

5.02 Not Cancer
Initial symptoms: Two patients who received organs from the same donor. Four other patients who received organs from this donor had died.
Diagnosis: Cancer stem cells from the donor (House)

Notes: The team was trying to save two patients. One died before the diagnosis was made, and one was saved.
I couldn't make any sense at all out of Kutner's intestinal perforation theory, and neither could the physician who writes the medical reviews.
At the beginning they said no blood is transmitted in a corneal transplant, so how did the cornea transplant receipient get the donor's cancer cells in her brain?

5.03 Adverse Events
Initial Symptoms: Man with visual agnosia
Diagnosis: Experimental drug interactions (House) + bezoar (House)

Notes: House deduced that the patient was in different experimental drug trials. I think he also figured out that the patient had a bezoar but I don't remember.
Taub earns a point for confirming from the patient's old paintings that the patient's symptoms are caused by drug interactions.

5.04 Birthmarks
Initial Symptoms: Woman with abdominal pain + vomiting blood
Diagnosis: Pins in patient's brain (House + Wilson)

Notes: I'm attributing the final diagnosis to both House and Wilson because House's diagnosis followed from Wilson's realization that the patient's parents tried to kill her when she was born.
I'm really uncertain about what caused the patient's symptoms here. At first House suggested that she had iron overload, but in the end it was all attributed to the pins in her brain. Was it one or the other? Or both? I think we're supposed to believe it was just the pins, that's how the Fox recap reads, but that shouldn't have caused all those symptoms.

5.05 Lucky Thirteen
Initial Symptoms: Woman with tonic clonic seizure, severe fatigue, history of retinal vein occlusion
Diagnosis: Sjogren's Syndrome (House)

Notes: I really had a problem with House's behaviour this episode. I thought he was torturing the patient for fun.
Why would the lung cysts have smooth muscle cells in them?

5.06 Joy
Initial Symptoms: Man with blackouts + hallucinations
Diagnosis: Familial Mediterranean Fever (House)

Notes: House deduced that the patient's daughter suffered the same illness as he did, so this case counts as two patients.
The symptoms don't match the diagnosis at all.
Cuddy met with a woman whose unborn baby she wanted to adopt. With Cameron's help she ended up diagnosing the unborn baby with underdeveloped lungs and the mother with placental abruption. This isn't part of the analysis because it wasn't House's team working on the case, but still worthy of note.

Season Four Summary

2008-07-06T19:39:00.004-06:00

Thanks to the writers' strike there were only 16 episodes this season, half of which were dedicated to House's Survivor game. The second half of the season featured House's final motley team of three new Housepets, Hadley (Thirteen) the internist, the Kutner the rehabilitative and sports medicine specialist, and Taub the plastic surgeon. Foreman the neurologist rejoined the team as well and Chase and Cameron remained on the sidelines in Surgery and Emergency Medicine respectively, contributing only rarely.
House was away treating his own patient in Whatever It Takes, and Foreman diagnosed a patient in another hospital in 97 Seconds. These two cases were not covered here, and except for them there was one patient per episode.

Patients treated: 16
Lives saved: 14
The patient in Wilson's Heart died because her body was too damaged to survive, and the patient in 97 Seconds died because competition between the fellowship contestants interfered with his care.

House: 16 diagnoses + 33 credits - 1 error = 48 total
Kutner: 4 diagnoses + 10 credites - 1 error = 13 total
Thirteen: 2 diagnoses + 11 credits - 1 error = 12 total
Foreman: 1 diagnosis + 11 credits - 1 error = 11 total
Taub: 3 diagnoses + 6 credits = 9 total
Chase: 2 diagnoses + 3 credits = 5 total
Cameron: 2 credits - 1 error = 1 total

My conclusions: After four seasons, 96 patients have been treated by House and his pets and 82 lives were saved by them.
The new team started off better than the originals did, because they had to. After the first season they're all pretty equal to each other. Taub has less overall points, but he also gets less focus than the other characters.

4.16 Wilson's Heart

2008-07-06T10:57:00.002-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with traffic accident injuries + elevated heart rate
Diagnosis: Amantadine poisoning (House) + influenza (Taub)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Idea to search apartment for toxins, idea for deep brain stimulation to retrieve memory, notices influenza rash, diagnosis for amantadine poisoning, knows that dialysis won't clear drug from blood
Cameron (N/A): Not in episode
Chase (1): Sees jaundice
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (1): Stops Thirteen from connecting wrong tube on patient
Taub (1): Suggests a toxin (lead, drugs) is causing heart trouble, diagnosis for influenza
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: This was a very hard episode to assign points for. I stuck to my method of working backwards from the correct diagnosis, which meant discarding a lot of things that would otherwise have counted for points or errors. The telling point here is that nothing would have saved the patient (Amber Volakis), so everything they did to her that could have potentially harmed her was irrelevant. I'm also calling influenza a separate diagnosis, although it didn't cause her fatal condition that they were diagnosing, because 1) it did cause at least one symptom and 2) knowing that she had the flu may have led them deduce that she had taken drugs for it and led them to the amantadine poisoning diagnosis without House's memory of seeing her taking the pills.
Wilson persuaded House to induce hypothermia and put Amber on bypass to avoid sending chemicals from her damaged heart to her brain. Everyone but House and Wilson acts as if this was a bad idea, so I'll assume it was. Again it didn't matter in the end, so no points were awarded or subtracted for it.
House and Foreman wanted to treat Amber for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever before confirming the diagnosis, but Wilson prevented them from doing so. Foreman acts as if this is bad medicine, but it makes sense to this layperson. On Foreman's suggestion he and Cuddy later warm Amber up, but as Wilson feared the chemicals produced from her damaged heart do affect her brain. If Wilson hadn't stopped them then perhaps she would have suffered brain damage. For this reason I'm awarding Foreman an error for it, even if technically it would have been inducing brain damage in a dead woman.
Taub suggested "infection" but her influenza was not what caused her symptoms, so no points were awarded. Taub does get credit for a diagnosis for declaring her rash a symptom of influenza, however, as House later remembered that she did indeed have it.
I'm assuming that the flu pills which killed Amber was not in her apartment to find, that the only ones she had were on her and lost in the bus crash, so Kutner and Thirteen lose no points for not finding them in the apartment. I'm still awarding House a point for suggesting they search there, however.
Thirteen almost connected a wrong tube on the patient, but Kutner stopped her. Thirteen doesn't lose a point because she didn't actually hurt the patient, but I'm giving Kutner a point.
House asks everyone what the significance of sherry could be in his dream, and Kutner suggests it may stand for Sharrie's Bar. I considered awarding a point to Kutner but didn't, as the information gained didn't really advance the case and it wasn't exactly a medical suggestion anyway.
House has an idea to regain his memory by using deep brain stimulation. Cuddy rejects this by saying it's too dangerous, but Wilson later persuades him to do it. It's through the procedure that House remembers Amber taking amandatine and makes the diagnosis. Cuddy, however, turns out to be right about the procedure being dangerous.

4.15 House's Head

2008-07-06T10:51:00.003-06:00

This review is a partial one only, and will be completed when/if a transcript becomes available.

Initial Symptoms: Man with injuries from traffic accident + leg paralysis
Diagnosis: Air embolism (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for air embolism, idea for removing it
Cameron (0): None
Chase (0): None
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: House begins the episode convinced that one of the passengers on a crashed bus is ill, and that person appears to be the bus driver. House diagnoses him only to realize that he's not the patient he was looking for. This review focuses on the bus driver's case, the medicine of which I found confusing but I did the best I could here.
Kudos to Thirteen (now given a name: Hadley) for performing the procedure on the patient, but I honestly can't remember the circumstances on how she came to be the only person in the room to do it. For now she won't receive a point, but this may change when I see the episode again.
To find the ill passenger, who is revealed to be Amber at the end, House has Chase hypnotize him. When Amber appears in House's hypnotic vision, however, Chase tells House to ignore her and therefore prevents House from realizing the truth. If I were awarding points for this part of the diagnosis Chase would get a point for knowing how to perform hypnosis (is there anything Chase can't do this season?) but would lose one for influencing House's recall during the procedure.
While I laughed out loud when Cuddy told House to go home and rest after discovering his skull was fractured and when Foreman the neurologist told Kutner to forget House's condition, again those aren't part of the differential here.

4.14 Living The Dream

2008-07-06T10:44:00.002-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with loss of peripheral vision
Diagnosis: Allergic vasculitis (House) + allergy to quinine (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Notices patient has peripheral vision loss, sees patient is delirious, diagnosis for allergic vasculitis, diagnosis for allergy to quinine
Cameron (1): Idea to test thyroid with iodine uptake test
Chase (N/A): Not part of differential
Foreman (1): Notices patient is using his fingers in an odd way
Kutner (1): Sees that patient's kidneys aren't filtering iodine
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: I'm calling the vasculitis and the allergy two different diagnoses, because it was possible to diagnose one without diagnosing the other, so House gets credit for both.
I'm assuming that Foreman's suggestion about the patient having a neurological problem based on how he was holding his stethoscope was correct, since he did have other neurological symptoms.
Cameron makes suggestions for testing the patient for nerve entrapment when his foot becomes numb, and for testing his thyroid when Graves Diseases is suspected. By my method of working backwards from the correct diagnosis, these ideas would usually not receive credit. Cameron's idea for the iodine uptake test prevented House from destroying the patient's healthy thyroid, however, so I'm giving her credit for it.

4.13 No More Mister Nice Guy

2008-07-06T10:37:00.003-06:00

This review is a partial one only, and will be completed when/if a transcript becomes available.

Initial Symptoms: Man with nystagmus + syncope + dysgeusia
Diagnosis: Chagas disease (Kutner)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Realizes patient's niceness is a neurological symptom
Cameron (0): None
Chase (0): None
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (2): Runs VDRL test, diagnosis for Chagas disease
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (1): Idea to perform bubble test to test for heart defect

Notes: Given that Cameron was working the ER without nurses, she can be forgiven for classifying a fainting patient as "low priority".
I'm assuming that all of the patient's symptoms were caused by Chagas disease, because chronic infection can cause heart and intestinal problems as well as the encephalitis that caused the neurological problems. Thirteen therefore gets credit for thinking of heart problems and proposing the bubble test, which when performed appears to have triggered Kutner's epiphany about Chagas disease. Kutner is awarded a point for running the VDRL test for neurosyphilis because Chagas disease also yields a false positive with this test; so do many other conditions, but that wasn't mentioned on the show.

4.12 Don't Ever Change

2008-02-24T17:18:00.003-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with bloody urine + loss of bladder control
Diagnosis: Nephroptosis (floating kidney) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Sees patient's symptoms set in when she's lying down, diagnosis for nephroptosis
Cameron (N/A): Not in episode
Chase (0): None
Foreman (2): Suggests leg pain caused by pinched nerve, suggests pheochromocytoma and Addison's disease
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (1): Sees patient is bleeding internally

Notes: House receives an error for insisting that the patient's conversion to Hasidic Judaism was a symptom of altered mental status. If he hadn't done so, he would probably have gotten the diagnosis sooner.
Foreman receives credit for suggesting pheochromocytoma and later Addison's disease, conditions concerning adrenaline production and adrenal glands, because the symptoms under consideration were caused by strain on the right adrenal gland on top of the floating kidney.
Chase came up with an idea to trick the patient into surgery to find the source of her internal bleeding, but House later said that he wouldn't have been able to detect it because the patient would have been lying down. Since the surgery wouldn't have found the problem, Chase receives no credit for his idea.

4.11 Frozen

2008-02-24T17:13:00.002-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with severe right flank pain
Diagnosis: Fat emboli (Kutner) from a broken toe (House)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Sees patient's lung is collapsing, tells patient how to re-inflate lung, idea to have mechanic test patient's urine, idea to relieve intercranial pressure, diagnosis for broken toe
Cameron (N/A): Not part of differential
Chase (N/A): Not in episode
Foreman (2): Idea to test kidney function, talks mechanic through tests on patient
Kutner (1): Diagnosis for fat emboli
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: I'm assuming that the enlargened and inflamed lymph nodes were irrelevant findings not caused by the fat emboli.
House doesn't receive an error for not making the patient take her socks off during the physical exam because they were examining her lymph nodes, which doesn't require examination of the feet.
Except for Foreman, the Housepets were not involved in this case until the very end.

4.10 It's a Wonderful Lie

2008-02-24T17:08:00.002-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with flaccid paralysis of hands + intermittent numbness of arms
Diagnosis: Breast cancer (Taub) + paraneoplastic syndrome (Taub)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes patient must have breast tissue somewhere in her body other than her chest, confirms diagnosis with Risperidone
Cameron (N/A): Not part of differential
Chase (0): None
Foreman (1): Sees patient has osteopetrosis
Kutner (0): None
Taub (2): Diagnosis for breast cancer, diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome
Thirteen (0): None

Notes: Taub's diagnosis was based upon the idea that the surgeon may have missed tissue when s/he removed the patient's breasts. House realized that the patient may have breast tissue somewhere else, and found it using a drug that causes breast tissue swelling.

4.09 Games

2008-02-24T17:02:00.003-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with bloody cough + drug use
Diagnosis: Autoimmune reaction (Kutner) to measles (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Realizes blood clotting resulted from patient's drug use, idea to look at masses around patient's heart with surgery, diagnosis for measles
Cameron (0): None
Chase (1): Sees enlargened lymph nodes
Foreman (1): Realizes patient is hiding multiple nicotine patches
Kutner (1): Diagnosis for immune system overreaction
Taub (2): Sees patient has clotting problem, suggests infection
Thirteen (2): Finds bad blood fragments, performs lumbar puncture
Volakis (1): Realizes that patient has been having complex partial seizures

Notes: Volakis was fired at the end of the episode. House's final team is Foreman, Kutner, Taub and Thirteen.
To be honest, the medicine in this episode was so confusing I'm not sure how to award points at all. What ended up being the cause of the bloody cough?
Kutner was the first to suggest the patient's symptoms were caused by overstimulation of his immune system. House later realized that measles were causing the reaction. I'm not sure how his immune system could have been weak enough for him to get measles, then strong enough to overreact to it.
Cameron receives an error for failing to realize that her patient had a serious illness.
Volakis received an error for leaving the patient alone with an oxygen tank, allowing him to blow himself up with a cigarette.
Thirteen received credit for performing the lumbar puncture because, in the real world, that should have showed the measles infection in the patient's brain.

4.08 You Don't Want To Know

2008-02-24T16:55:00.005-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with cardiac arrest
Diagnosis: Lupus (House) + blood transfusion error (Kutner)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes bleeding during MRI was caused by magnet ripping swallowed key out of patient's intestines, diagnosis for lupus
Cameron (N/A): Not part of differential
Chase (N/A): Not part of differential
Cole (1): Sees fluid in lungs and bleeding in kidney and thigh
Foreman (2): Sees immunoglobulin levels are low, stops House from irradiating patient
Kutner (3): Finds bleeding around patient's heart, diagnosis for bad blood transfusion, sees kidneys are shutting down
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None
Volakis (0): None

Notes: It's unclear whether it was Taub, Volakis, Kutner or Thirteen who performed the ultrasound to find bleeding around the patient's heart when he lost consciousness. I've awarded credit to Kutner because he was the one who told House they did it, implying (but not proving) it was his idea.
Kutner originally suggests "bad blood" and "tainted blood", which throughout the episode seems to imply receiving the wrong blood type as well as infected blood. House realizes the patient received the wrong blood type during his transfusion because lupus made his blood type test results erroneous.
House tests the blood the patient was transfused with by injecting himself with it. I considered awarding him credit, but in the end decided this particular test wasn't necessary for the lupus diagnosis.
Cole was fired at the end of the episode.

4.07 Ugly

2008-02-24T16:44:00.002-07:00

This review is a partial one only, and will be completed when the transcript becomes available.

Initial Symptoms: Boy with craniofacial deformity + ventricular fibrillation
Diagnosis: Lyme disease (Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (0): None
Cameron (N/A): Not part of differential
Chase (0): None
Cole (0): None
Foreman (0): None
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (2): Diagnosis for Lyme disease, stayed during surgery
Volakis (0): None

Notes: Samira Terzi, the CIA doctor House met in the previous episode, was hired and fired in this episode without contributing anything to the differential.
Cuddy told the team to get a CT scan.
Thirteen was the first to suggest Lyme disease and then spotted the rash before the patient's surgery. At that point she simply suspected the patient was ill without realizing it was Lyme disease, so she was awarded two credits instead of one.

4.06 Whatever It Takes

2007-11-17T16:38:00.002-07:00

At the beginning of the episode House was whisked away by the CIA to treat an ill agent. Eventually House diagnosed him with selenium poisoning from eating too many Brazil nuts and returned to PPTH at the end of the episode.
Back in Princeton, Foreman lead the Housepets. This analysis will cover their patient only.

Initial Symptoms: Woman with seizure
Diagnosis: Heat stroke (Foreman) + thallium poisoning (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for thallium poisoning by Brennan
Brennan (0): None (see notes)
Cameron (0): None
Chase (0): None
Cole (0): None
Foreman (2): Diagnosis for heat stroke, realizes patient doesn't have polio
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None
Volakis (0): None

Notes: Should I even bother pointing out that Brennan was in error for poisoning the patient with thallium and faking the positive polio test result? It doesn't matter, because Brennan is gone and hopefully in prison. The Housepets can be forgiven for not considering the possibility that someone in the hospital was poisoning their patient.
House probably realized that the patient only had heat stroke when he accepted her as a patient.

4.05 Mirror, Mirror

2007-11-17T16:33:00.002-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory distress
Diagnosis: Environmental dependency syndrome (House) + Eperythrozoon infection (House)

Contributions by Team
House (8): Diagnosis for environmental dependency syndrome, sees livedo reticularis (rash), realizes cold agglutinins are causing rash, tells team to search patient's car to get his history, idea to analyze patient's antibodies to find out where he's been, puts patient on lipopolysaccharide to induce fever, idea to imitate patient to trigger his memories, diagnosis for Eperythrozoon infection
Brennan (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Chase (0): None
Cole (1): Suggests finding out where patient has been to find source of infection
Foreman (1): Points out that patient is mimicking names and symptoms of those around him
Kutner (1): Suggests warming patient with hot tub to draw blood for blood cultures
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (1): Knows to treat patient with clarithromycin
Volakis (1): Suggests patient has infection

Notes: Foreman rejoined the team in this episode.
The condition House calls Giovannini Mirror Syndrome is real, but is one isolated case. Its discoverers called it environmental dependency syndrome. The real case was caused by brain damage, but in this episode it wasn't clear if the patient's illness caused it or if it was pre-existing. I've chosen to believe it was separate from his infection and therefore count it as a separate diagnosis.
It was Brennan's idea to perform an ultrasound on the patient to look for abscesses. What was found was a lump of congealed blood that did not forward the diagnosis, however, so Brennan receives no credit.
I wasn't sure whether to give House a credit for trying to find the patient's travel history by testing his antibodies. The antibodies showed that the patient had been to Ohio, and in the end they found out he was from Ohio so I did give House the credit.
Kutner receives an error for not realizing that the patient had real memories.
Foreman suggested a heart biopsy, but since it gave them no information he doesn't receive credit for it.

4.04 Guardian Angels

2007-11-17T16:29:00.001-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with grand mal seizure + hallucinations
Diagnosis: Ergot poisoning (Volakis)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnoses patient's late mother with Parkinson's disease, realizes patient's illness isn't vascular
Brennan (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Chase (1): Sees spleen is enlargened
Cole (1): Sees liver is necrotic
Dobson (3): Realizes patient is having delusions as well as hallucinations, idea to question play along with the patient's delusion to get family history, says blood supply to liver and spleen are being cut off
Foreman (N/A): Not involved in the diagnosis
Kutner (0): None
Taub (0): None
Thirteen (0): None
Volakis (1): Diagnosis for ergotism

Notes: House didn't order anyone to search the patient's home or check her food, so how did Cole know that the patient only ate organic food? He didn't realize the significance of this, so I'm not awarding him points.
House and Dobson thinking alike was a running theme in this episode, so theoretically Dobson's points are House's as well.
House is given credit for his post mortem diagnosis of the patient's mother because eliminating genetic illnesses was part of the diagnostic process.
I'm not sure if the visceral angiogram House ordered would have ruled out vasculitis or not, but since House realized this without the angiogram results anyway he doesn't receive extra credit.
Some viewers felt that House realized the correct diagnosis moments before Volakis did. I didn't see evidence to prove that, so Volakis is given credit and not House.
Dobson was fired at the end of this episode.

4.03 97 Seconds

2007-11-17T16:25:00.003-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) + fainting
Diagnosis: Strongyloides (threadworms) (House + Thirteen)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for Strongyloides, spots necrosis in cervical lymph node, realizes dog died from eating patient's medication
Brennan (0): None
Cameron (1): Idea for xenodiagnosis
Chase (0): None
Cole (0): None
Desai (0): None
Dobson (0): None
Foreman (N/A): Not involved in the diagnosis
Kutner (2): Suggests patient contracted disease in Thailand, idea to test stool
Taub (1): Realizes patient's kidneys are failing
Thirteen (4): Diagnosis for Strongyloides, says trouble swallowing was caused by SMA, realizes patient's lungs are filling with fluid, knows lung fluid should be bloody if patient has cancer
Twin A (1): Idea to put patient on tilt table
Twin B (0): None
Volakis (0): None

Notes: House had already diagnosed the patient before Thirteen did.
Thirteen received an error for not making sure the patient took his medication, though it's unclear why he didn't.
The candidates were working in two teams throughout the first half of the episode.
It's unclear whose idea it was to test the patient's stool, but I have to give it to someone so I gave it to Kutner. After only two weeks the worms shouldn't have been in the patient's stool, but it's where to start looking for parasites.
Volakis is not getting credit for asking House's former fellows for help!
The twins and Desai were fired at the end of the episode.
In a different hospital, Foreman diagnoses a case of anaplastic large cell lymphoma and saves his patient - for which he is fired, ironically.

4.02 The Right Stuff

2007-11-17T16:15:00.002-07:00

House begins this episode with 27 fellowship applicants, which he is narrowing down to two or three over a series of episodes. Starting now I am listing the nine that will be crucial for the following episodes and will cross them off as they are eliminated by House.
Because I don't know if the original Housepets will rejoin the Department of Diagnostic Medicine, I will continue to list them as well. From now on I'll list them all in alphabetical order.

The nine prospective Housepets are:
Travis Brennan (#37), epidemiologist nicknamed Grumpy
Jeffery Cole (#18), geneticist nicknamed Big Love
Jodi Desai (#32), veterinarian
Henry Dobson (#26), not a doctor
Remy Hadley, called Thirteen (#13), internist (her name can be seen on Chase's betting slips in Mirror, Mirror)
Lawrence Kutner (#6/9), rehabilitative and sports medicine specialist
Chris Taub (#39), plastic surgeon
Twins (#15A &15B), pediatric endocrinologists
Amber Volakis (#24), interventional radiologist nicknamed Cutthroat Bitch

Initial Symptoms: Woman with synaesthesia
Diagnoses: Von Hipple-Lindau disease (Chase) + pheochromacytoma (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Idea to test patient's liver by stressing it, performs auscultatory percussion to detect masses in lungs
Brennan (0): None
Desai (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Chase (2): Diagnosis for Von Hipple-Lindau disease, diagnosis for pheochromacytoma
Cole (0): None
Dobson (0): None
Foreman (N/A): Not in episode
Kutner (2): Realizes patient is having a heart attack, suggests using alcohol to stress liver
Taub (3): Notices elevated red blood count, talks patient out of chapel, idea to examine lungs as part of breast implant surgery
Thirteen (2): Suggests "hormone overproduction" caused atrial flutter, idea to administer oxygen in stress test room for medical records falsification
Twin A (0): None
Twin B (0): None
Volakis (1): Suggests patient has problem with her liver

Notes: At the end of the episode it is revealed that both Chase and Cameron are still at PPTH, Chase as a surgeon and Cameron as an attending in the Emergency department (I'm not sure which is more ridiculous). Foreman is running a diagnostic group in a different hospital.
Pheochromacytomas are associated with some types of Von Hipple-Lindau disease.
House started with 27 fellowship candidate in this episode, which were narrowed down to these nine by the end.
Some have argued that during the surgery House did know the correct diagnoses before Chase revealed them. There's no way to be sure and I myself saw no proof of it, so I'm awarding these diagnoses to Chase.

4.01 Alone

2007-11-17T16:10:00.000-07:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman injured in building collapse with fever + fluctuating consciousness
Diagnosis: Serotonin syndrome (House) + delirium tremens (House) + Warfarin/estrogen interaction (House) + antibiotics allergy (Cuddy) + mistaken identity (House)

Contributions by Team
House (7): Diagnosis for serotonin syndrome from MAOI/Demerol interaction, diagnosis for delirium tremens from alcohol withdrawal, sees patient has internal bleeding, notices enlargened uterus, diagnosis for Warfarin/estrogen interaction, spots eosinophilic granuloma, diagnosis for mistaken identity
Chase (N/A): Not in episode
Cameron (N/A): Not in episode
Foreman (N/A): Not in episode

Notes: House was working alone in this episode (hence the title) with no team and only Cuddy and a janitor helping him.
Cuddy realized that the patient had pancreatitis, and made the diagnosis for cephalosporin allergy from the lump House spotted on the patient's arm.

Season Three Summary

2007-09-01T23:49:00.002-06:00

There were 24 episodes in season three, many with more than one patient. One Day, One Room was excluded to leave 23. House was not present for Airborne, and Chase was absent for most of Human Error.

Patients treated: 29
Lives saved: 26
There were two patients each in Meaning, Fools For Love, Half-Wit counting the patient whose records House stole, Fetal Position, Act Your Age, and Family.
In Informed Consent and Que Sera Sera the patients died because their illnesses were incurable, and in House Training the team killed the patient by misdiagnosing her.

House: 25 diagnoses + 58 credits - 5 errors = 78 total
Chase: 6 diagnoses + 28 credits - 3 errors = 31 total
Cameron: 3 diagnoses + 20 credits - 0 errors = 23 total
Foreman: 3 diagnoses + 24 credits - 4 errors = 23 total

My conclusions: Over three seasons the Department of Diagnostic Medicine treated 80 patients and saved the lives of 68 of them.
Everyone had more credits in the third season, which I think has more to do with me than with the show. Even taking that into account, all of the Housepets improved this season. Chase grew the most this season, developing his observational skills and making the same intuitive leaps that House does to come up with diagnoses. Both Cameron and Foreman contributed more to the diagnostic process, but Foreman's error rate increased. As in season two, Cameron and Foreman appear to be equal in their performance with Chase proving to be the best diagnostician of the three. It's not a large lead, but it is definitely there.

3.24 Human Error

2007-09-01T22:59:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with fatigue + pain + kidney problems + double vision
Diagnosis: Third ostium (extra hole between left and right sides of heart) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Idea to separate husband's symptoms from wife's after they had been in a boat accident, idea to look at patient's heart, diagnosis for congenital heart defect
Chase (1): Spots blood clot in humerus bone
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Chase was fired approximately one-quarter of the way into the episode.

3.23 The Jerk

2007-09-01T22:52:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with severe headache + violent behaviour
Diagnosis: Hemochromatosis (Cameron)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Notices patient's bones are malformed, realizes illness is hemochromatosis
Chase (1): Identifies liver failure
Cameron (3): Suggests pain in other parts of patient's body is a symptom, diagnosis for hemochromatosis, notices hypogonadism
Foreman (1): Says personality is not a symptom

Notes: Cameron's suggestion of hemochromatosis was rejected by House because it didn't explain the patient's antisocial behaviour, which the team believed was a symptom. House came to the conclusion later by correctly judging that the patient's personality wasn't caused by his illness, for which he was given a credit.
Foreman was correct that the patient had a partial HPRT (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase) enzyme deficiency, but this did not affect him so Foreman receives no credit for it.
Foreman received an error for ignoring the patient when he said he had pain in his fingers, which would later prove to be a crucial symptom, and Chase an error for wrongly telling the patient's mother that his illness caused his personality problems. I debated the last one, but in the end decided that it had to be counted. Like Cameron's failures to tell patients that they're dying, it's not part of the diagnostic process but is part of patient care.

3.22 Resignation

2007-09-01T22:39:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman coughing blood
Diagnosis: Bridge between vein and artery in GI tract (House) + infection (House) + depression/suicide attempt (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for infection, diagnosis for suicide attempt, diagnosis for hole/bridge in GI tract
Chase (1): Points out goose bumps as symptom
Cameron (2): Suggests GI bleed, points out diarrhea as symptom
Foreman (1): Identifies pleural effusion (says "pressure")

Notes: I'm assuming that the goose bumps and diarrhea were indeed symptoms.

3.21 Family

2007-09-01T22:24:00.000-06:00

The patient was a boy who needed to have his infection diagnosed and treated so he could donate bone marrow to his leukemia-stricken brother. While this analysis covers only one brother, in the final tally it counts as two patients.

Initial Symptoms: Boy with a sneeze + fever + enlarged spleen
Diagnosis: Histoplasmosis (Wilson+Foreman)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Idea to make patient sicker to diagnose him, idea to stop medication to figure out if it's infection that is suppressing bone marrow production
Chase (1): Sees elevated enzymes, leading to discovery of a fibrous growth in mitral valve
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (4): Insists on continuing testing for infections, idea to check home for source of infection, diagnosis for histoplasmosis, idea to do bone marrow transplant anyway

Notes: Wilson realized the growth in the patient's mitral valve was fibrous; I'm not sure if this was caused by the fungal infection or not, but it was implied so for this diagnosis I assumed it was.
Wilson pointed out that the patient's family shouldn't have a water pump in their backyard, leading Foreman to test for farm-related diseases. Therefore they shared the histoplasmosis diagnosis.
The 4/6 bone marrow transplant didn't seem to buy the leukemia patient time for a proper diagnosis, but did almost kill him. Foreman received an error as a result.
Foreman's idea to perform the bone marrow transplant after the diagnosis, while horrible in its execution, did save the life of the patient's brother after every other doctor had given up on him.

3.20 House Training

2007-09-01T17:55:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with abulia
Diagnosis: Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis

Contributions by Team
House (1): Post-mortem diagnosis for Staphylococcus heart infection
Chase (1): Suggests infection
Cameron (1): Suggests bubble study, which would have shown the correct diagnosis
Foreman (1): Says TIA (transient ischemic attack) caused abulia

Notes: No diagnosis is awarded in this case because it came after the fatal radiation treatment.
Both Foreman and House received errors for performing the radiation treatment, Foreman for advocating it and House for approving it. As House once said, mistakes are as serious as their consequences and in this case the team killed their patient.

3.19 Act Your Age

2007-09-01T17:40:00.000-06:00

The patient's brother suffered from the same illness, and his symptoms and eventual diagnosis are combined here with hers.

Initial Symptoms: Girl with restrictive pericarditis
Diagnosis: Precocious puberty (Foreman) induced by contact with testosterone cream (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Idea to bleed patient to prevent blood clots, realizes the patient’s brother has the same illness, diagnosis for exposure to testosterone cream
Chase (1): Notes hemocrits are elevated
Cameron (1): Realizes problem is environmental
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for precocious puberty

Notes: Foreman diagnosed the patient's condition by testing the blood on her clothing and finding that it was menstrual blood.

3.18 Airborne

2007-09-01T17:20:00.000-06:00

House and Cuddy were by themselves dealing with what appeared to be a meningitis epidemic on a plane. House diagnosed one patient with decompression sickness, better known as the bends, and multiple patients with mass hysteria (partially caused by Cuddy!).
Back in Princeton Wilson lead the Housepets. This analysis will cover their patient only.

Initial Symptoms: Woman with fainting spell + seizure
Diagnosis: Methyl bromide poisoning (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (N/A): House was not present for this case
Chase (2): Realizes that the cat's lack of appetite was a symptom, diagnosis for methyl bromide poisoning
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Suggests checking the patient's home for an environmental cause

3.17 Fetal Position

2007-09-01T17:09:00.000-06:00

Two patients were diagnosed and treated in this episode, a woman and her unborn child.

Mother-To-Be
Initial Symptoms: Pregnant woman with stroke
Diagnosis: Maternal mirror syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for maternal mirror syndrome
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: House was correct about the patient having mitral valve stenosis, but it was not causing her symptoms and Camerons said it was so mild it would never have affected her at all. House doesn't get credit as a result.

Fetus
Initial Symptoms: 21-week-old fetus causing maternal mirror syndrome
Diagnosis: Urinary tract obstruction (Cuddy) + congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Idea to paralyse fetus and perform MRI, knows that three taps are necessary on bladder, diagnosis for CCAM, idea to operate on fetus
Chase (1): Idea to operate on fetus
Cameron (1): Sees that lungs aren't developing
Foreman (1): Suggests that lungs are the problem

Notes: Cuddy also speeds up the fetal lung development with corticosteroids, and has the idea to perform a transjugular hepatic biopsy.
Chase commented that surgery would be the last alternative to diagnose a real person, not intending to suggest that they operate on the fetus, and from there House proceeded to do exactly that. They were both awarded credit for the idea as a result.

3.16 Top Secret

2007-08-31T22:55:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with Gulf War Syndrome symptoms
Diagnosis: Hereditary hemmorrhagic telangiectasia (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Realizes patient has brain infection instead of tumors, knows depleted uranium is irrelevant, diagnosis for hereditary hemmorrhagic telangiectasia
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Chase was correct in his suggestion that the patient had been exposed to depleted uranium, but receives no credit because it was medically irrelevant.

3.15 Half-Wit

2007-08-31T22:44:00.000-06:00

The Housepets worked more on treating House for his fake cancer than they did on diagnosing their real patient. Because all of the team, House included, studied Luke N. Laura's case, I counted it as a separate diagnosis. Two patients were diagnosed in this episode as a result.

Official Patient
Initial Symptoms: Man with brain damage + dystonia (muscle contractions)
Diagnosis: Takayasu's arteritis (Chase+Foreman)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Realizes patient can create music as well as play it, spots increase in heart rate, predicts bleed below kidney, proves patient still has activity in "dead" part of brain, suggests hemispherectomy to stop seizures and improve brain function
Chase (1): Diagnosis for Takayasu's arteritis
Cameron (2): Realizes problem is that seizures are getting worse, suggests bleeding in the brain
Foreman (5): Knows that listening and playing are different neurological processes, realizes heart problem didn't cause dystonia, realizes patient's brain is getting worse, suggests intercranial EEG, diagnosis for Takayasu's arteritis

Notes: Chase suggested an auto-immune disease. The team then worked on confirming this, and ultimately Foreman narrowed it down to Takayasu's arteritis.

Alleged Cancer Patient
Initial Symptoms: Patient with mass in dorsal midbrain
Diagnosis: Gumma from neurosyphilis (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (0): None
Chase (2): Tests "House" for protein PHF, diagnosis for gumma
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Recognizes position of mass and its implications

3.14 Insensitive

2007-08-31T22:13:00.001-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with Chronic Insensitivity to Pain (CIPA) + car accident injuries + fever
Diagnosis: Tapeworm in the gut (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Noticed patient had CIPA, idea to biopsy nerves, realizes patient has B12 deficiency, diagnosis for tapeworm
Chase (1): Idea to induce pain in patient
Cameron (1): Realizes patient's symptoms were caused by treatment
Foreman (1): Realizes patient's pain is emotional

Notes: I was tempted to give House an error for insisting on biopsying the patient's spinal nerves for his own purposes, before he even knew she was sick, but I didn't because he didn't actually do it. Besides, without House insisting on all those tests they wouldn't have found the tapeworm at all. Biopsying another nerve was diagnostically necessary and revealed important information, so he still received credit.

3.13 Needle in a Haystack

2007-08-31T22:00:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with bloody pleural effusion
Diagnosis: Swallowed toothpick which punctured multiple organs (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Thinks patient has "a mass" in his liver blocking the hepatic vein, diagnosis for finding toothpick in colon
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: The toothpick was found while directly examining the patient's colon; everyone mistook scar tissue for a granuloma on the scans. House ordered the colonoscopy, so he gets the diagnosis even though he had no idea what the Housepets would find.

3.12 One Day, One Room

2007-08-30T20:17:00.000-06:00

While House saw several clinic patients and Cameron watched a homeless man die of cancer, the Housepets did not treat or diagnose a patient in this episode.

3.11 Words and Deeds

2007-08-30T20:11:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with shortness of breath + altered mental status + chills
Diagnosis: Male menopause (House) + broken heart syndrome (Cameron) + spinal meningioma (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Spots arrhythmia on EKG and suggests heart attack, diagnosis for male menopause, suggests environmental cause for heart attacks (the woman the patient loves), diagnosis for spinal meningioma
Chase (2): Suggests patient is hiding his chest pain, realizes patient is having a heart attack
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for broken heart syndrome
Foreman (2): Suggests a brain tumour (twice), runs MRI on patient

Notes: The broken heart syndrome was caused by the tumour, since the tumour created the false memories that seem to be responsible, but is credited as a separate diagnosis.
House was assigned an error for ignoring the abnormal EKG at the beginning of the episode. He also received an error for giving the patient electroshock therapy to wipe his memories. He should have gotten more confirmation of the diagnosis or considered other treatments before resorting to essentially killing the patient.
The symptom of the patient's memories being false was missed, but who missed it? My first reaction was to say Cameron, but she wasn't the only doctor treating the patient. I've concluded that the entire team is guilty of that one, so Cameron isn't given an error for it.
Foreman was given credit for performing the MRI on the patient because it seemed to have been his idea, but this wasn't completely clear. It wasn't House's idea.

3.10 Merry Little Christmas

2007-08-30T20:02:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl diagnosed with CHH dwarfism + collapsed lung + anemia
Diagnosis: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) (Chase+House) + growth hormone deficiency + pituitary tumor (House)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Idea to do gallium scan, sees that liver is shutting down, knows that illness is widespread and will hit pancreas next, diagnosis for LCH, realizes that patient isn't a dwarf and the LCH caused her stunted growth
Chase (2): Points out that ear infections may be relevant, diagnosis for LCH
Cameron (2): Knows why TB test wouldn't work on CHH dwarf, suggests illness is autoimmune
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Langerhans cell histiocytosis caused the tumor, which in turn caused the growth problem. The tumor and growth deficiency were counted as one diagnosis, separate from the histiocytosis.
House hit upon the LCH diagnosis unaware that Chase had suggested it earlier, so they both receive credit for it.

3.09 Finding Judas

2007-08-30T19:53:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with acute pancreatitis
Diagnosis: Congenital erythropoietic porphyria (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Predicts gallstones
Chase (3): Realizes shape of scratch test indicates allergy, suggests a primary blood disorder, diagnosis for erythropoietic porphyria
Cameron (2): Suggests allergy, realizes patient gets sicker every time they treat her
Foreman (1): Identifies blood clot in arm

Notes: Cuddy diagnoses the patient's anxiety attack and puts her under a shower to cool her down when she develops a fever.
House received an error for ordering amputation of the patient's arm and leg without confirming that she really had an infection.

3.08 Whac-A-Mole

2007-08-29T21:03:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with vomiting + heart attack
Diagnosis: Chronic ganulomatous disease (House)

Contributions by Team
House (6): Diagnoses hepatitis A based on itchy feet, knows that patient doesn't have toxins left in his system so they need to test his first vomit, realizes patient has osteomyelitis, realizes spots on MRI are fungus and not tumors, diagnosis for chronic ganulomatous disease, infects patient to diagnose which immune disorder he has
Chase (2): Suggests a virus, diagnosed botulism
Cameron (1): Diagnoses Eikenella
Foreman (1): Diagnoses syphilis

Notes: The patient's multiple infections were treated as symptoms of the underlying immune disorder, which was the diagnosis.

3.07 Son of a Coma Guy

2007-08-29T21:00:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with akinetopsia + seizure
Diagnosis: Liver failure from alcoholism (Cameron) + red ragged fiber disease (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Notices akinetopsia, realizes illness is genetic, realizes that liver failure is due to medication + alcohol, diagnosis for red ragged fiber disease
Chase (1): Realizes patient is an alcoholic
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for liver failure
Foreman (1): Realizes patient's problem is his heart and not his liver

Notes: What happened to the kidney failure? It was never explained.
Cameron received credit for diagnosing the liver failure because she was the first to spot it, not through a clever deduction.

3.06 Que Sera Sera

2007-08-29T20:57:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with morbid obesity + coma
Diagnosis: Lung cancer (House) + paraneoplastic syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Notices loss of appetite, diagnosis for lung cancer, diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome
Chase (1): Rules out lumbar puncture on patient
Cameron (1): Idea to put only the patient's head in MRI
Foreman (1): Idea to rule out MS from CSF sample

Notes: Chase received an error for deserting the team and the patient. Yes House told him to "sit on his ass", but completely leaving is not the same thing. It was clear that Chase did not want to treat the patient at all.

3.05 Fools for Love

2007-08-29T20:52:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with anaphylactic shock + abdominal pains
Diagnosis: Hereditary angioedema (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Idea to take wife off steroids to rule out infection, realizes patients are brother and sister, diagnosis for angioedema
Chase (1): Sees edema throughout wife's brain
Cameron (1): Realizes illness isn't environmental
Foreman (2): Diagnoses allergy to antibiotic, sees bowel isn't dead and says high lactic acid was from stress

Notes: The patient's husband became a patient himself when he fell ill too. The husband and wife's diagnoses were combined because they had the same illness and the team realized this during the differential diagnosis.

3.04 Lines in the Sand

2007-08-27T21:13:00.001-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with severe autism + screaming
Diagnosis: Pica (House) + raccoon roundworms (House)

Contributions by Team
House (6): Suggests parasites, suggests problem is in lungs before pleural effusion occurs, gets patient to inhale gas, suggests liver is damaged, diagnosis for pica, diagnosis for raccoon roundworms
Chase (3): Realized that elevated blood pressure + screaming indicated chest pain, suggests parasites, suggests illness is caused by something the patient ate
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Pica caused the patient to eat sand, leading to the roundworms exposure. Since pica is a medical condition that can have serious health consequences, it is included it here as a separate diagnosis although it was the roundworms that caused the patient's symptoms.
Foreman received an error for insisting the patient wasn't sick, since if he were the attending physician the patient wouldn't have been diagnosed and treated.

3.03 Informed Consent

2007-08-27T21:06:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory distress
Diagnosis: Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Tells Cameron to remove fluid from lungs, injects patient with epinephrine to test heart, notices lung scarring on MRI, notices nerve damage in right side, confirms amyloidosis
Chase (2): Diagnosis for amyloidosis, insists problem is in the heart and not the lungs
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: House should have ordered an echocardiogram and not an exercise stress EKG. Since this was never mentioned in the episode, it's assumed that it was a mistake by the writers and not the character and House doesn't receive an error for it.
Chase received an error for collapsing the patient's lungs during a lung biopsy.
I'd like to give Cameron a credit for fulfilling House's promise to euthanize the patient, but since killing your patients isn't considered part of medical care in New Jersey it wouldn't be appropriate. (No, I'm not being sarcastic).

3.02 Cane and Able

2007-08-27T21:03:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with hallucinations + rectal bleeding
Diagnosis: Chimerism causing abnormal cells in the heart, bone marrow and brain (House)

Contributions by Team
House (6): Suggests patient has a bleeding disorder, spots section of myocardium not beating, idea to inject antibody tag into brain-blood barrier, realizes that tag won't work on brain cells, diagnosis for chimerism, idea to induce hallucination to find and remove foreign cells from brain
Chase (2): Analyzes DNA from heart and patient and sees they don't match, idea to cut out foreign tissue
Cameron (3): Suggests testing clotting factors, realizes that hypertension activated patient's clotting factors, idea to tag foreign DNA with an antibody
Foreman (1): Insists hallucinations are being caused by problem in the brain

Notes: House received an error for wanting to send the patient home, even though it was because he was having a crisis of confidence rather than poor medical judgment. If Wilson and Cuddy were part of this analysis... let's not go there.

3.01 Meaning

2007-08-27T20:58:00.000-06:00

House has contradicted what he said about his leg damage in Three Stories and now has full leg function back! He's feeling so good he's taking on two cases:

Yoga Girl
Initial Symptoms: Woman with paralysis but no spinal trauma
Diagnosis: Scurvy (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Proves patient isn't really paralyzed, realizes patient has cardiac tamponade, diagnosis for scurvy
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Wheelchair Guy
Initial Symptoms: Man in vegetative state after treatment for astrocytoma
Diagnosis: Addison's disease (House) caused by hypothalamic dysregulation resulting from scarring from brain surgery (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Realizes patient's throat muscle response is due to problem in his brain, diagnosis for hypothalamic dysregulation, diagnosis for Addison's disease, suggests cortisol to prove diagnosis
Chase (2): Picks out fever + frequent urination as pattern, agrees to keep treating patient with re-scan of head
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Recognizes dry eyes are a symptom

Notes: Chase probably agreed to continue treating the patient to please House and not because he thought it was the correct thing to do medically, but since it was he gets the credit. It doesn't seem fair but that is the criteria.
I've assumed that the fever, frequent urination and dry eyes were indeed symptoms of Addison's disease.

Season Two Summary

2007-08-26T18:30:00.000-06:00

There were 23 episodes in season two when the final episode, No Reason, is excluded. The breakdown for the season is:

Patients treated: 25
Lives saved: 19
Sex Kills counted as two patients because the team diagnosed a dead woman to save their actual patient. Euphoria and Forever also counted as two patients each, even though I didn't include the baby's treatment in my analysis of Forever.
The deaths occurred in Daddy's Boy, The Mistake, Euphoria, and Forever. For Daddy's Boy, The Mistake and Forever the patients were diagnosed but could not be cured. The cop in Euphoria died before he was diagnosed.

House: 39 diagnoses + 32 credits - 4 errors = 67 total
Chase: 3 diagnoses + 14 credits - 1 error = 16 total
Cameron: 4 diagnoses + 8 credits - 1 error = 11 total
Foreman: 2 diagnoses + 10 credits - 2 errors = 10 total

My conclusions: Chase and Cameron improved this season over last, while Foreman did not. Again Chase shows that he contributes more to others' diagnoses than by coming up with his own. I would argue that Cameron and Foreman are equal overall, but it's possible that Chase outperformed them.

2.24 No Reason

2007-08-26T18:01:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with severely swollen tongue
Diagnosis: ?

We didn't see the team treat this patient after House was shot. We don't know if they treated him at all, or what his diagnosis was. Everything that happened between the shooting and the final scene in Emergency was a hallucination, so this episode was not included in this analysis at all.

2.23 Who's Your Daddy?

2007-08-26T17:56:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with cardiogenic shock + hallucinations
Diagnosis: Hemochromatosis (House) + Zygomycosis infection in the lungs (Foreman)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Recognizes that hallucinations are caused by pain, diagnoses patient's grandfather with hemocromatosis by listening to his music, diagnosis for hemocromatosis, idea to confirm hemocromatosis diagnosis by looking at patient's skin
Chase (1): Suggests mold as cause of illness
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (3): Realizes patient is in liver failure, suggests patient has fungal infection, diagnosis for Zygomycosis infection

Notes: House received an error for giving the patient radiation to kill her bone marrow to treat an autoimmune disease they didn't even test for.
House correctly deduced that the patient was lying about her paternity, but since it was irrelevant for her diagnosis this was not credited.

2.22 Forever

2007-08-26T17:44:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with seizure + elevated calcium levels
Diagnosis: Celiac disease (House) + stomach cancer (House)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Idea to induce seizure, idea that symptoms are caused by niacin deficiency, idea to biopsy baby's intestines to diagnose his mother, diagnosis for celiac disease, diagnosis for stomach cancer
Chase (1): Sees villus atrophy in baby's intestines
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Suggests cancer

Notes: The baby was not considered as part of this diagnosis, since his problems were caused by drowning and suffocation. There was no diagnosis to be made for the baby and he wasn't treated by the entire team, so he's not counted as a separate patient (though I have included him in the final tally).

2.20 & 2.21 Euphoria

2007-08-26T17:30:00.000-06:00

In the first part (episode 2.20) Foreman contracted the patient's illness after visiting his apartment. Since it was immediately apparent that Foreman and the patient had the same disease, the two cases were combined here and treated as one diagnosis.

Initial Symptoms: Man with euphoria + shot in the head
Diagnosis: Legionnaire's disease (House) + primary amoebic meningoencephalitis from Naegleria (House+Cameron)

Contributions by Team
House (6): Diagnosis for Legionnaire's disease, idea to biopsy Foreman's brain, idea to biopsy an infected animal, suggests that disease might be an amoeba, realizes that Legionnaire's disease was fighting amoeba, diagnosis for Naegleria
Chase (1): Points out that bullet may be magnetic so a MRI cannot be done
Cameron (2): Idea to perform angiogram, diagnosis for Naegleria
Foreman (2): Knowledge about bullets and police vests, idea to perform white matter biopsy

Notes: After some internal debate, I've decided to call Cameron's biopsy of Foreman a diagnosis. On the show this was represented as the last option if the team failed to diagnose Foreman in any other way, but it was indeed a diagnosis. Foreman was diagnosed by two separate methods at the same time.
Chase was correct in his suggestion that the initial patient had elevated carbon monoxide concentrations in his blood, but it appears this was unrelated to his symptoms and infections so Chase was not awarded credit for it.
House was given an error for destroying the MRI when he already knew the bullet was magnetic.

2.10 House vs. God

2007-08-26T17:13:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with cramping + partial seizure
Diagnosis: Tuberous sclerosis (Chase) + herpes encephalitis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for herpes shrinking Wilson's patient's tumor after exposure to House's patient, diagnosis for herpes encephalitis
Chase (1): Diagnosis for tuberous sclerosis
Cameron (1): Suggested an infection
Foreman (0): None

Notes: It appears that the initial diagnosis of water toxicity was wrong.
House's determination that an ordinary STD caused the "miracle" liver cancer remission was classified as a diagnosis.
The patient's belief that God talked to him, which the team called auditory hallucinations, was not included here as a symptom.

2.18 Sleeping Dogs Lie

2007-08-26T17:06:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman unable to sleep for 10 days
Diagnosis: Bubonic plague (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Idea to stop immunosuppressant drugs, diagnosis for bubonic plague
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: House deduced that the patient was planning on leaving her girlfriend, leading to an ethical dilemma when she volunteered to donate part of her liver to the patient, but medically this information wasn't required to diagnose the patient so no credit is awarded.

2.17 All In

2007-08-26T17:00:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with bloody diarrhea + ataxia
Diagnosis: Erdheim-Chester Disease (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for Erdheim-Chester Disease
Chase (1): Suggests histiocytosis, of which Erdheim-Chester disease is a form
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.16 Safe

2007-08-26T16:56:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girls with allergies + heart transplant + anaphylaxis
Diagnosis: Tick paralysis (Cameron)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Finds tick in patient's vagina
Chase (1): Suggests patient's boyfriend brought an allergen to her
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for tick paralysis
Foreman (0): None

2.15 Clueless

2007-08-26T16:37:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory distress + swollen tongue
Diagnosis: Gold poisoning (House) by his wife (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for gold toxicity, diagnosis for poisoning, idea to use stannis chloride to test for gold
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.14 Sex Kills

2007-08-26T16:25:00.000-06:00

To cure a living patient the team had to diagnose a dead woman! I've divided this episode into two as a result.

Living Patient
Initial Symptoms: Man with absence seizure
Diagnosis: Brucellosis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Spots microabscess in brain scan, diagnosis for brucellosis, idea to use gonorrhea patient as heart donor
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Appeals transplant committee's decision
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Cameron gets credit for fighting further to get their patient a heart transplant because I decided it was above and beyond her physician's duty at that point.

Dead Patient
Initial Symptoms: Woman with fever + stomach pain + elevated liver enzymes before she died
Diagnosis: Gonorrhea (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for gonorrhea
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.13 Skin Deep

2007-08-25T21:54:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with cataplectic attack
Diagnosis: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) (House) + testicular cancer (House) + paraneoplastic syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Diagnosis for testicular cancer, diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome, idea to rule out placebo effect, diagnosis for AIS
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Suggests problem is neurological instead of caused by heroin
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Cameron (and Wilson) should have detected the patient's AIS during their examinations of her reproductive system, but because this was not pointed out as an error on the show it's assumed here that it was a mistake by the writers.
House was correct in his suspicion that the patient was using heroin, and used a risky procedure to detox her. The heroin use turned out to be unrelated to her symptoms and final diagnosis, however, so House received no credit for it or the treatment.
House also didn't receive credit for the incest discovery because it, too, proved medically irrelevant.

2.12 Distractions

2007-08-25T21:51:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with severe burns + tachycardia + low potassium
Diagnosis: Antidepressants (serotonin syndrome?) (House) taken to stop smoking (House)

Contributions by Team
House (6): Idea to use galvanometer, idea to use transcranial doppler sonography, idea to use maggots to clean wounds, idea to perform lumbar puncture on neck, diagnosis for antidepressant use, diagnosis for smoking cessation
Chase (1): Suggests brain is misinterpreting pain
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.11 Need To Know

2007-08-25T21:47:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with fertility treatments + movement disorder
Diagnosis: Ritalin (House) + birth control pills (House) + vascular liver tumor (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Idea to paralyze patient during MRI, diagnosis for Ritalin, diagnosis for birth control pills, diagnosis for liver tumor
Chase (1): Found liver tumor on ultrasound
Cameron (1): Suggests estrogen may explain movement disorder
Foreman (0): None

Notes: House suspected endometrial cancer and told the Housepets to perform a biopsy. Chase found the liver tumor when the patient started bleeding during the procedure. Since House was the one to suspect cancer and who ordered the procedure that lead to the discovery, House gets the diagnosis.

2.10 Failure To Communicate

2007-08-25T21:45:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with aphasia
Diagnosis: Bipolar disorder (House) + cerebral malaria (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Suggests way to get patient to tell the truth, diagnosis for bipolar disorder, realizes that patient had brain surgery, diagnosis for cerebral malaria
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Realizes that patient only tells the truth when his wife is absent
Foreman (0): None

2.09 Deception

2007-08-25T21:39:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with seizure + bruising
Diagnosis: Munchausen's syndrome (Cameron) + Clostridium perfringens infection (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for C. perfringens infection
Chase (1): Suggests a tumor, leading to discovery of pancreatic scarring
Cameron (2): Tricks patient for diagnosis, diagnosis for Munchausen's syndrome
Foreman (0): None

Notes: A lot went wrong while Foreman was in command.
Cameron gave the patient antibiotics to diagnose Munchausen's syndrome, but this interfered with diagnosis of her infection so Cameron receives an error. It doesn't seem fair to do that, but Cameron could have found another method to diagnose the Munchausen's.
House received an error in giving patient colchicine to lower her white blood cell count, a dangerous move that also interfered with her diagnosis. If the team had gone ahead with the radiation treatment there would have been another error assigned.
Foreman was assigned an error for discharging the patient while she was still sick.

2.08 The Mistake

2007-08-25T21:29:00.000-06:00

This episode is divided into two parts because the team had to diagnose the patient two times.

The First Time
Initial Symptoms: Woman with abdominal pain + joint pain + uveitis
Diagnosis: Behcet's disease (Chase) + stomach ulcer

Contributions by Team
House (0): None
Chase (1): Diagnosis for Behcet's disease
Cameron (1): Suggests illness affects blood vessels
Foreman (1): Suggests illness affects arteries

Notes: A paramedic diagnoses the bleeding stomach ulcer.
Chase received an error for failing to diagnose the stomach ulcer. As far as I can tell Chase's only mistake was in being brusque with a patient, which is hardly new for any of the characters, but a great deal was made of it on the show so I must count it.

The Second Time
Initial Symptoms: Woman with Behcet's disease + liver transplant + fever
Diagnosis: Hepatitis C (House) + liver cancer from transplant (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for hepatitis C, diagnosis for liver cancer
Chase (1): Realizes that patient has infection
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.07 Hunting

2007-08-25T21:25:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with AIDS + anaphylactic shock
Diagnosis: Echinococcus infection (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Suggests parasite, realizes that patient and his father have the same illness, diagnosis for Echinococcus infection
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Realizes the patient has a mass in his heart

2.06 Spin

2007-08-25T21:21:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory arrest + performance enhancing drugs
Diagnosis: Air embolus (Foreman) + thymoma (House) + myasthenia gravis (House) + pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) (Wilson+House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for thymoma, diagnosis for myasthenia gravis, diagnosis for chronic PRCA
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for air embolus

Notes: Wilson diagnosed the PRCA, House the type and how the patient had developed it. It's about time Wilson contributed something, seeing that he keeps failing to find all these tumors.

2.05 Daddy's Boy

2007-08-25T21:19:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with intermittent shock-like pains + low white blood cell count
Diagnosis: Radiation poisoning (House) + cavernous angioma (House) + infection (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for infection that developed during hospitalization, diagnosis for radiation poisoning, diagnosis for cavernous angioma
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

2.04 TB or Not TB

2007-08-25T18:47:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with abnormal heart rhythm + fainting
Diagnosis: Tuberculosis (TB) (Patient+Cameron) + nesidioblastoma (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Idea to induce cardiac arrest with hot lights, diagnosis for nesidioblastoma, idea to diagnose tumor by injecting calcium
Chase (3): Notices abnormal heart rhythm, suggests "something metabolic", suggests high insulin levels
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for TB
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Technically, the patient diagnosed his own TB. I awarded the credit to Cameron because she was the only one who tested for it, and because she successfully argued to House that they needed to eliminate TB from the differential diagnosis to identify his second illness.
House received an error for initially refusing to consider TB as part of the patient's diagnosis.

2.03 Humpty Dumpty

2007-08-25T18:40:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with asthma + respiratory distress + fingers turning black
Diagnosis: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) (House) caused by psittacosis (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for DIC, diagnosis for psittacosis, realizes that patient works at cock fights
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: If I'd included Cuddy in this analysis, she would receive an error for not telling House that the patient had asthma.

2.02 Autopsy

2007-08-25T18:33:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with alveolar rhabdomyosacrcoma + hallucinations
Diagnosis: Benign heart tumor (House) + blood clot in the brain (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Confirms tumor by listening to heart valves, diagnosis for heart tumor, suggests tumor threw clot, idea to find blood clot by autopsy
Chase (1): Diagnosis for blood clot
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (3): Suggests clot caused hallucinations, idea to bolt patient to table for autopsy procedure, finds blood clot in brain

Notes: Cameron was the only Housepet to hear the "extra flap" in the patient's heart when House played it for them.

2.01 Acceptance

2007-08-25T18:26:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with hallucinations + tachycardia + pulmonary edema
Diagnosis: Methanol poisoning (House) + pheochromocytoma (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for copier fluid poisoning, realizes that patient's behaviour is a symptom, diagnosis for pheochromocytoma
Chase (2): Lists methanol as cause of symptoms, suggests adrenaline
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Foreman received an error for refusing to save the patient when he went into cardiac arrest. That's blatant negligence.
Cameron refused to admit that her clinic patient was terminal. It doesn't count as an error because she wasn't the team's case, I'm simply noting it.
Foreman planned to testify in defense of their patient, stating that his illness contributed to his crimes. It's debatable whether this is part of his physician's duty or should be counted as care; I've decided it isn't and am not giving him a credit for it as a result, but again it's worthy of note.

Season One Summary

2007-08-24T20:39:00.000-06:00

In the first season there were 22 episodes, two of which Cameron was absent for. We saw the team handle 21 cases, 23 if you include Three Stories (which I am here). Here's what the team had to show for it:

Patients treated: 27
Lives saved: 24
Maternity had four patients, Poison two patients and Three Stories two patients as well.
The deaths occurred in Maternity, Histories and Babies and Bathwater; in the latter two cases the team diagnosed the patients before they died but the illness was incurable.

House: 30 diagnoses + 28 credits - 1 error = 57 total
Chase: 2 diagnoses + 11 credits - 2 errors = 11 total
Cameron: 4 diagnoses + 5 credits - 1 error = 8 total
Foreman: 3 diagnoses + 8 credits - 2 errors = 9 total

My conclusions: They're pretty equal overall. Chase delivered less final diagnoses but contributed more towards other people's diagnoses, a pattern that you'll see continue as I go into season two. He's a background character. Foreman, despite being lauded as the smartest, isn't significantly better than the others. Cameron has less total points but again, you'll see her improve in season two as well.

1.22. Honeymoon

2007-08-24T19:28:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with abdominal pain + mood changes
Diagnosis: Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Spots abdominal epilepsy, diagnosis for AIP, idea to trigger AIP attack to confirm diagnosis
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

1.21 Three Stories

2007-08-24T19:18:00.000-06:00

We're told that the Housepets treated two of the cases presented in this episode, the volleyball player and the farmer. The nature of the storytelling makes it impossible to properly evaluate the diagnostic process involved, so it will not be included in this analysis. I'm listing the diagnoses here purely for interest's sake.

The Farmer
Initial Symptoms: Man with leg pain
Diagnoses: Dog bite + Group-A Streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis

Notes: The impression from the episode is that House diagnosed this patient.

The Volleyball Player
Initial Symptoms: Girl with leg pain
Diagnosis: Thyroid disorder + osteosarcoma in leg (the thyroid disorder wasn't specified, but it sounds like hypothyroidism)

Notes: It appeared that Cameron diagnosed this patient.

1.20 Love Hurts

2007-08-23T20:43:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with teeth grinding + stroke
Diagnosis: Osteomyelitis (infection of the jaw bone) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Notices metal plate in jaw on CT scan, realizes that patient is lying about parents being dead, diagnosis for osteomyelitis
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Knows that MRI cannot be done because of metal plate in jaw
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Chase gets an error for not telling the team that the patient was into BSDM. It's certainly understandable that he wouldn't want to admit knowing that, but it was medically relevant because it was the source of his patient's injury and ultimately of his infection.
House gets credit for locating the patient's parents because he needed their consent for surgery.

1.19 Kids

2007-08-23T20:41:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with fever + neck pain + rash
Diagnosis: Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) from pregnancy (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes that patient may be pregnant, diagnosis for TTP
Chase (1): Idea to do transcranial ultrasound
Cameron (N/A): Not in this episode
Foreman (1): Idea to treat patient in morgue

1.18 Babies and Bathwater

2007-08-23T20:40:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Pregnant woman with altered mental status + loss of coordination
Diagnosis: Lung cancer (House) + paraneoplastic syndrome (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome, diagnosis for lung cancer
Chase (1): Suggests autoimmune problem
Cameron (N/A): Not in this episode
Foreman (0): None

1.17 Role Model

2007-08-23T20:38:00.001-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with nausea + headache + mental confusion
Diagnosis: Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) from seizure medication (House) + Epstein-Barr virus (House)

Contributions by Team
House (5): Realizes that first AIDS test was a false positive, idea to test for hairy cell leukemia by looking for viruses, realizes that patient had childhood epilepsy, diagnosis for CVID, diagnosis for Epstein-Barr virus
Chase (1): Suggests immunoglobulin deficiency
Cameron (1): Suggests idiopathic T-cell deficiency
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Wilson diagnoses the patient's toxoplasmosis, which contributes to the CVID diagnosis.

1.16 Heavy

2007-08-22T22:50:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Girl with heart attack
Diagnosis: Cushing's Disease (House)

Contributions by Team
House (1): Diagnosis for Cushing's disease
Chase (1): Suggests that obesity is a symptom
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: House's suspicion that the patient used diet pills proved correct, but he doesn't receive credit for it because it proved irrelevant to her condition.

1.15 Mob Rules

2007-08-22T22:49:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man in intermittent coma
Diagnosis: Hepatitis C (House) + estrogen supplements (House) + ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTD) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Diagnosis for hepatitis C, idea to use pig's liver for treatment, diagnosis for OTD, diagnosis for estrogen supplements
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Suggests metabolic problem

1.14 Control

2007-08-22T22:47:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with leg pain + paralysis
Diagnosis: Bulimia (House) + congestive heart failure (House) from ipecac poisoning (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for bulimia, diagnosis for congestive heart failure, diagnosis for ipecac poisoning
Chase (0): None
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

Notes: Chase messed up an angiogram on the patient's leg while checking for blood clots. The problem in the end was muscle damage from ipecac poisoning, so under the criteria I use it usually wouldn't count because the diagnosis wasn't related to a blood clot. In this case I am calling it an error because 1) House caught it after the fact without Chase realizing his mistake, meaning that if the patient did have a blood clot Chase wouldn't have found it; 2) it was regarded as a serious error by the other characters, while errors in treatments are usually glossed over.

1.13 Cursed

2007-08-22T22:46:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with fever + respiratory problems + rash
Diagnosis: Anthrax (House) + leprosy (House)

Contributions by Team
House (3): Diagnosis for anthrax, realizes that patient's father was in Asia thus exposing patient to Asian diseases, diagnosis for leprosy
Chase (1): Biopsies skin lesions to rule out autoimmune disease
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

1.12 Sports Medicine

2007-08-21T20:16:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with osteopenia (thinning of bones)
Diagnosis: Cadmium poisoning (House) from marijuana (Chase)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Realizes illness is environmental because the wife has it too, diagnosis for cadmium poisoning
Chase (1): Diagnosed source of cadmium
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Suggests metal toxicity from environment

Notes: From the scene it appears that House was the first to realize the patient had cadmium poisoning and was leading the Housepets to the same diagnosis, so House was awarded the diagnosis even though Chase said the actual words. Chase received credit for realizing where the cadmium exposure had come from.
Wilson diagnosed the digitalis overdose, which would have been considered a symptom otherwise.
House made an error in administering Lupron to treat steroids after the patient had tested negative for steroids, causing respiratory system damage.

1.11 Detox

2007-08-21T20:15:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with hemolytic anemia
Diagnosis: Naphthalene poisoning from termite nests (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Idea to autopsy cat, diagnosis for naphthalene toxicity
Chase (1): Idea for procedure to remove clot from eye
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None

1.10 Histories

2007-08-21T20:13:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman with arm twitch + seizures
Diagnosis: Abdominal tuberculoma (House) + insulin overdose (Foreman) + rabies (House)

Contributions by Team
House (4): Idea to ID patient from surgical pin, diagnosis for tuberculoma, realized patient was tasered by cop, diagnosis for rabies
Chase (1): Suggested ice bath to treat fever
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (1): Diagnosis for insulin overdose

Notes: Foreman gets an error for initially refusing to treat the patient.
Putting the patient in an ice bath doesn't seem particularly exceptional to me, but no other character suggested it so it counts as a creative treatment.
House gets credit for realizing why the patient collapsed in the park because otherwise it would have been considered a symptom.

1.09 DNR

2007-08-21T20:11:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Man with paralysis + pneumonia
Diagnosis: Stroke (Cameron) + arteriovenous malformation (AVM) (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Insisted patient didn't have Lou Gehrig's disease, diagnosis for AVM
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for stroke
Foreman (1): Idea for embolectomy to treat blood clot

Notes: The AVM was found on the MRI, without House knowing it would be there. He was the one who ordered the team to redo the MRI, however, so he gets credit for it.

1.08 Poison

2007-08-20T19:28:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Boy with severe bradycardia + nausea
Diagnosis: Organophosphate poisoning (Cameron) from stolen pants (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Suggests pesticide was organophosphate, idea that poison came from pants
Chase (0): None
Cameron (1): Diagnosis for pesticide poisoning
Foreman (1): Idea to use experimental Army treatment

Notes: A second boy succumbed to the same illness later in the episode.
The focus of this episode was finding where the patients had been exposed to the pesticide, not diagnosing the poisoning.

1.07 Fidelity

2007-08-20T19:26:00.000-06:00

Initial Symptoms: Woman sleeping 18 hours a day
Diagnosis: African sleeping sickness transmitted by sex (House)

Contributions by Team
House (2): Diagnosis for African trypanosomiasis, realizes that illness was sexually transmitted
Chase (1): Suggests a parasite
Cameron (0): None
Foreman (0): None