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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

A virus spreads quickly amongst the youngest patients in the hospital, and House must make a risky decision in order to save as many babies as he can.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers
  • Will House consider Wilson's advice in replacing Cameron after her problems in giving patient's relatives 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 babies born at the Hospital
POTW symptom(s): A baby is sick 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 one off the two antibiotics they have them on and taking the other off the other one. He decides which gets taken off of which anti-biotic by flipping a coin
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: Echovirus 11 (from an elderly hospital worker)
Other / clinic patient(s): A woman (Jill) who is pregnant but is afraid her husband is not the father of the baby.

House M.D. Episode Best Moments

Best Episode Moments
  • House parading in on the Gynaecology lounge room at the start of the episode, then using Jill as an excuse to stay there at the end.





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 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.





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