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House episodes premiered on FOX in the United States and Global in Canada. [246] The show was the third-most popular on Canadian television in 2008. [247] That same year, House was the top-rated television program in Germany, [248] the number 2 show in Italy, [249] and number 3 in the Czech Republic. [250]
House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama series which premiered on Fox on November 16, 2004. House was created by David Shore. The show follows Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), an irascible, maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.
As Hugh Laurie says, Dr. House is the guy who leaves the party before people want him to." [ 10 ] Other cast members agreed that it was time for the show to end; Omar Epps , who played Eric Foreman , said: "You want to go out at a time when the show is still effective, people are still watching it, the stories are still fresh...
House also begins injecting himself with an experimental drug reported to regrow muscle in rats. The team treats a scientist, Dr. Lee ( Linda Park ) for seizures and symptoms of radiation poisoning. They discover that Dr. Lee's boyfriend, Ceaser, has been poisoning her with Spanish Fly , which causes symptoms similar to radiation poisoning.
When an agent from the CIA recruits House to help diagnose a mortally ill agent named "John", House puts Foreman in charge of the fellowship candidates and the Alfonso case. At a CIA hospital, House meets Dr. Samira Terzi, a staff doctor for the CIA, and immunologist Dr. Sidney Curtis from the Mayo Clinic, also brought in to
Reportedly now working in a low-paid job, he was selling his home to pay bills. When House tried to give him a check to help with expenses, Wibberly admitted he got an A+ for the paper, had a successful medical practice but lost his money to a gambling habit. House drops the check in Wibberly's mailbox at the end of the episode anyway.
Chase says he has a new girlfriend. House examines the dead boy and finds no obvious abnormalities. Chase suggests the patient may have a complication of HIV. House orders tests to confirm as well as an MRI to rule out tumors. House returns to the dead boy and examines his fingers. Iris tests negative for HIV, so the team goes to look for a tumor.
House's Head" was supposed to air after Super Bowl XLII but due to the 2007-2008 WGA Strike the episode was derailed, [5] [6] and the House season 4 episode "Frozen" was aired instead. [7] The T-shirt House wears in the episodes, which shows a skeleton drinking coffee, and says "Coffin Break", was created by a designer named Taavo. [8]