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"THE SOCRATIC METHOD"


House Episode Number: 106

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: December 21, 2004

Writer: John Mankiewicz

Director: Peter Medak

Special Guest(s): Stacy Edwards (Lucy Palmeiro), Aaron Himelstein (Luke Palmeiro), John Prosky (Dr. Bergin), Sonya Eddy (Sally), Pat Musick (Trina Wyatt), Lilas Lane (Terri), Veronica Leigh (Wendy), C. Xavier Drayton (Male Truant Officer)

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

Family matters take on extra importance when House looks into the case of a schizophrenic woman and her devoted son, who is suspected of over-medication his ailing mother.







House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers







House M.D. Medical File Folder

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

Location of incident: When Lucille and her son are claiming for benefits
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Lucille Palmeiro/unemployed/38/Female
POTW symptom(s):
  • Hearing voices
  • Tremors
  • Collapses
  • Sharp pains in her leg (caused by a blood clot which moved to her lungs)
  • Vomiting blood
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • Vitamin K Deficiency
  • Tumor
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:
  • Foreman and Chase break into the patient's apartment.
  • They inject the patient with ethanol to decrease the size of a tumor, in order to fool the surgeon into working on it.
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: Wilson's disease (she was diagnosed with Schizophrenia a year ago but the diagnosis was wrong, Wilson's was causing the symptoms)
Other / clinic patient(s):
  • Mother brings in overweight kid to have a doctor frighten her about sugar; House doesn't play along.
  • A man with hiccups who has tried a range of cures; including hitting himself and "groin-pinching"

House M.D. Episode Best Moments

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House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes

    House Quotes
    • House: "Look, I have a cane and I know how to use it."

    • House: "Love the outfit. It says "I'm a professional, but I'm still a woman...Actually, it sort of yells the second part."
      Dr. Cuddy: "Yeah, and your big cane is real subtle too."

    • House: "Ooh, girl in the boys’ bathroom. Very dramatic. Must be very important what you have to say to me."
      Dr. Cuddy: "Yesterday your patient’s tumor was 5.8 centimeters. Today it’s 4.6. How did that happen?"
      House: "At a guess, I’d say “Dr. House must be really really good, why am I wasting him on hiccups?”
      Dr. Cuddy: "You also requisitioned 20cc of ethanol, what patient was that for? Or are you planning a party?"

    House M.D. Episode Trivia
    House Episode Trivia
    • Cameron makes the final diagnosis instead of House.
    • House makes a sideways reference to original Pink Floyd lead singer, Syd Barrett.





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    The Socratic Method
    Lucille collapses while claiming for benefits
    The Socratic Method
    The surgeon finds out House shrunk the tumor
    The Socratic Method
    Lucille starts to get better after treatment for Wilson's Disease
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    jlpsmom The Socratic Method 5 Nov 8 2008, 7:12 PM EST by dr.someone
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    In this episode it's House's birthday, at one point he's in the clinic and Cuddy is holding a file of his, when he leaves she opens the file and throws away a birthday card, I know it probably is nothing of importance but it's driving me crazy, My question is who is the card from and why does she throw it away?
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