Performance Reviews

Episode Index

2012-01-01T16:35:00.004-07:00

Introduction to Performance Reviews

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

Update: Season 5, Episodes 1-6

2008-11-06T22:28:00.002-07:00

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 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

2007-11-17T16:33:00.001-07:00

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.