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108: Poison

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"POISON"


House Episode Number: 108

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: January 25, 2005

Writer: Matt Witten

Director: Guy Ferland

Special Guest(s): John Patrick Amedori, Roxanne Hart, Shirley Knight, Kurt Fuller, McNally Sagal, Molly Mankiewicz, Christopher Malpede, Kenya D. Williamson, Ulysses Lee, Jim Lau, Linda Wang, Andy Milder
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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

A toxin sends a high school boy into convulsions, but after an experimental treatment fails and a thorough inspection of the boy's home turns up nothing, the boy's mother refuses to take anymore risks until she's heard from the Centre for Disease Control.

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

Location of incident: School, during a test
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Matt/Student/?/Male
POTW symptom(s):
  • Sweating
  • Grimacing
  • Passing out
  • Convulsions
  • Heart rate plummets
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • Drugs
  • Food Toxin
  • Pesticide Poisoning
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: House sends Foreman and Cameron to the patient's house to find the stash of drugs he assumes are there.
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: Phosmet (a pesticide) picked up through the skin from some jeans he had bought off the back of a truck.
Other / clinic patient(s): Georgia, an 82 year old woman, who is feeling sexy and who starts flirting with House and later sends him a poem, which Wilson intercepts and reads in public. She has syphilis.

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House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes
    • House: You're brain damaged. Doomed to feeling good for the rest of your life.

    • House: I want you to go to his house and find his stash. I'll bet you know all the good hiding spots.
      Dr. Foreman: Actually, I never did drugs.
      House: (speaking to Cameron) Better go with him. In case he gets high.

    • House: (to Foreman) You’re getting good at this God-like doctor thing. Why don’t you talk her out of it?
      Dr. Foreman: She’s… not a big fan of mine.
      Dr. Chase: Or mine.
      House: Only one man left in the bullpen, and he throws like a girl.
      Dr. Cameron: I hate sports metaphors.

    • Dr. Cameron: You really never did any drugs?
      Dr. Foreman: Now this is gonna be a racial thing.
      Dr. Cameron: Deflecting a personal question with a joke. Gee, who do I know that does that?
      Dr. Foreman: Yeah, I’m just like him. Except for the angry, bitter, pompous, cripple part.
      Dr. Cameron: Maybe we should all pitch in and get you a nice cane. You’ve already got the matching gym shoes.

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    Matt collapses and convulses while taking a test in school
    Poison 2
    Chase and Foreman intubate the new patient showing similar symptoms to Matt
    Poison 3
    Matt is placed on a ventilator as he slowly gets worse
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