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"MATERNITY"


House Episode Number: 104

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: December 7, 2004

Writer: Peter Blake

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel

Special Guest(s): Ever Carradine (Karen Hartig), Kenneth Choi (Dr. Lim), Benjamin Parrillo (Dr. Kubisak), Sam Trammell (Ethan Hartig), Cress Williams (Hospital Attorney), Dwight Armstrong (Charlie), Nate Torrence (Young Man), Jocelyn Jackson (Young Woman), Hedy Burress (Jill), Melissa Marsala (Lupino), Alexandra Bokyun Chun (Kim Chen), Madison Bauer (Soap Patient), Marc Menard (Soap Doctor), Shawn Carter Peterson (Male Med Student), Donna Stearns (Volunteer)

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

House suspects an epidemic in spreading through the hospital when two babies get sick. Cuddy dismisses the idea, but when additional newborns exhibit symptoms, the team takes it seriously. Even after being put on two antibiotics, the babies deteriorate quickly. One or the other is not working, and to find out which, House orders each taken of one of them -- knowing full well that one baby will very likely die. Though Cuddy objects, she gives the green light when House points out it could save the lives of many other children. One baby does die, but the other begins to get worse as well. In desperation, House autopsies the deceased infant and finds out they have been treating the wrong kind of infection.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers
  • Why does Cameron freeze up when asked to break the bad news to the parents of the baby that died?
  • Will House consider Wilson's advice in replacing Cameron after her problems in giving patients' families bad news?

House M.D. Medical File Folder

HOUSE EPISODE: MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident: Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (Maternity ward)
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Six newborns at the hospital
POTW symptom(s): A baby is throwing up when she hasn't eaten anything
Team mis-diagnoses: Bacterial infection
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: House decides to treat the two sickest babies differently, taking each one off one of the two antibiotics they have them on, to see which is working. He decides which gets taken off of which antibiotic by flipping a coin
House's "Aha!" moment: When he performs an autopsy on the deceased baby and find that it's a viral infection
POTW final diagnosis: Echovirus 11 (from an elderly hospital worker)
Other / clinic patient(s): A woman (Jill) who is pregnant but afraid her husband is not the father of the baby

House M.D. Episode Best Moments

Best Episode Moments
  • House parading into the OB/GYN lounge room at the start of the episode, then agreeing at the end to be the prenatal doctor for a patient just so can can use the lounge!
  • The final scene, in which House observes the elderly hospital worker coughing and wiping her nose, and then handling stuffed animals that are given out in the maternity ward.
  • House explaining to patient Jill that she has a parasite!

House M.D. Episode Trivia

House Episode Trivia
  • The first word spoken in this episode is "Amber."
  • This is the first episode in which a patient dies.
  • When House asks his team to help him search for most sick babies, he says, "We're going hunting." Chase asks what they are hunting for, and House says, "Wabbits." This is an allusion to the Looney Tunes cartoon character Elmer Fudd, who had trouble pronouncing R, and that's how he says "rabbits." In most cartoons, he is on the trail of famous rabbit Bugs Bunny.

House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes

House Quotes
  • House: We have an epidemic!
    Dr. Cuddy: Two sick babies is very sad, but it doesn’t prove an epidemic.
    House: How many do?
  • Jill: Thank you so much. I gotta get you a gift or something.
    House: Sometimes the best gift is the gift of never seeing you again.
    Jill: Okay, all right!
  • House: Lift up your arms. You have a parasite.
    Jill: Like a tapeworm or something?
    House: Lie back and lift up your sweater. You can put your arms down.
    Jill: Can you do anything about it?
    House: Only for about a month or so. After that it becomes illegal to remove, except in a couple of states.
    Jill: Illegal?
    House: Don't worry. Many women learn to embrace this parasite. They name it, dress it up in tiny clothes, arrange playdates with other parasites...
    Jill: Playdates…
    House: (showing her sonogram) It has your eyes.
  • House: This is our fault. Doctors over-prescribing antibiotics. Got a cold? Take some penicillin. Sniffles? No problem. Have some azithromycin. Is that not working anymore? Oh, got your levaquin. Antibacterial soaps in every bathroom. We'll be adding vancomycin to the water supply soon. We bred these superbugs. They're our babies. And they're all grown up and they've got body piercings and a lot of anger.





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