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Fourth Season Episodes ::  #414 "Living the Dream"

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House & Wilson
House (Hugh Laurie) is fascinated when Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) tells him about a fight he had with Amber in the HOUSE episode "Living the Dream" airing Monday, May 5 (9-10 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
©2008 FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY
Credit: Chris Haston/NBC Universal/FOX
Broadcast:
May 5, 2008
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Written by
Sara Hess & Liz Friedman
Directed by
David Straiton
Music
Timeline
Patient of the Week:
Evan Greer, an actor who plays a doctor on a daytime soap that House watches.
How House gets involved:
House notices changes in how the actor delivers his lines and decides the actor has a brain tumor so he kidnaps the actor and takes him to the hospital.
The privacy invasion / ethical breach
He kidnaps the actor! Later he injects him with a sedative to run an MRI on him! And invades his dressing room and sends his team to his apartment.
Misdiagnoses
It isn't a brain tumor. So the team think he might have a high level of B6 from eating a lot of sunflower seeds. But House decides it is a problem with the thyroid and wants to destroy the thyroid but the team do tests instead and find it is normal but the patient's kidneys are failing. Then they decide it is an infection and give him antibiotics but he goes into a coma. Then House decides it is an allergy to plants.
The final diagnosis
House was wrong about what Evan was allergic to but the treatment did bring him out of his coma for it really was an allergy. Turns out he was allergic to the quinine in the tonic which is supposed to be gin and tonic that he drinks on the show.
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Clinic Patient(s)
None
Additional Information
  • Hospital was fined for not following the rules and instead saving Evan's life
  • Amber really wants Wilson to make choices for himself.
  • Cuddy gets Cameron to do House's paperwork.
  • Cameron admits that she misses playing private detective, figuring out the puzzels, etc. but claims she doesn't miss House.

House & Cameron
Cameron (Jennifer Morrison, R) helps House (Hugh Laurie, L) with hospital paperwork in the HOUSE episode "Living the Dream" airing Monday, May 5 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
©2008 FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY
Credit: Chris Haston/NBC Universal/FOX Universal/FOX
Additional Info on this episode:

Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Kal Penn as Dr. Lawrence Kutner; Olivia Wilde as Thirteen

Guest Cast: Jason Lewis as Evan Greer; Anne Dudek as Amber Volakis

Quotes (Quotations), Dialogue

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