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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.
The most-watched episode of House is the season four episode "Frozen", [211] which aired after Super Bowl XLII. [ 212 ] [ 213 ] It attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers. [ 214 ] House ranked third for the week, equaling the rating of American Idol and being surpassed only by the Super Bowl itself and the post-game show . [ 215 ]
House's team discover unused Ampicillin and frozen microwave burgers, supporting House's diagnosis. An ultrasound of Lucille's liver reveals cirrhosis and a cancerous tumor . The tumor is too large to resect but House orders the team to shrink the tumor with an injection of ethanol so that the surgeon will operate.
Hugh Laurie's contract on House expired once the eighth season was over, and Laurie confirmed that once House was over, he would be moving on to strictly film roles. On February 8, 2012, in a joint statement issued by Fox and executive producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs, and Laurie, it was revealed that the season would be the last for House. [3]
Meanwhile, House trades barbs with an abrasive clinic patient, only to realize to his horror that she is Cuddy's mother Arlene (guest star Candice Bergen), come to check out her daughter's boyfriend. He lies in a futile attempt to avoid a dinner with Cuddy, Arlene, and Wilson, even though it is Cuddy's birthday.
House first suspects it is Erdheim–Chester disease and orders a colonoscopy, but tests are negative. House, knowing the next symptom that will develop is kidney damage, orders a kidney biopsy, which turns out to be negative. The rest of the team, annoyed, tell House that all Ian has is a stomachache due to some bad food.
List of episodes " Paternity " is the second episode of the medical drama House , which was first broadcast on Fox on November 23, 2004. A teenage boy is struck on the head in a lacrosse game and is found to have hallucinations and night terrors that are not due to concussion.
As a result, House refuses to return to his office. Cuddy suggests working in the Clinic, but he begins to work in other people's offices during the course of the episode. While House is complaining to Cuddy, the rest of House's team tries to strap Adam down and get him into an MRI machine. It takes time because Adam must first finish a video ...