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121: Three Stories

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"THREE STORIES"


House Episode Number: 121

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: May 17, 2005

Writer: David Shore

Director: Paris Barclay

Special Guest(s): Sela Ward, Carmen Electra, Andrew Keegan, Ingrid Sanai Buron, Andi Eystad, James Saxenmeyer, Josh Zuckerman, Nicole Bilderback
 HOUSE MD 121: "Three Stories"

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

House's former girl friend, Stacy, asks him to treat her husband, whose failing health cannot be diagnosed, but House is reluctant to get involved. Meanwhile, Cuddy pressures House into lecturing for an ill professor, so he offers three different stories featuring the same symptoms. The students come away with a better understanding of diagnostics while House's team ends up with a better understanding of him.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers

  • The team figures out that one of the patients is actually House himself.
  • Stacey went against his wishes to do the operation on his leg.
  • Stacey needs House's help to diagnose her husband.

House M.D. Medical File Folder

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

Location of incident: A lecture House gives has him telling three stories about three different types of leg pain
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Person A/Farmer/?/Male
Person B/Volleyball player/?/Female
Person C (Carmen Electra)/Miniature Golf/?/Female
(Really it's a 40's male (House)
POTW symptom(s): Leg pain
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • Person A: Snake Bite
  • Person B: Tendinitis, Thyroid problems, Adenoma
  • Person C: Faking to get pain medication
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: None
House's "Aha!" moment: We find out the reason behind House's leg pain (He is actually Person C)
POTW final diagnosis:
  • Person A: Flesh eating disease caused by dog bite
  • Person B: Osteosarcoma
  • Person C: Aneurysm that clotted, leading to an infarction and muscle death
Other / clinic patient(s): None

House M.D. Episode Best Moments



  • House's team and Wilson start to slowly make their way,one at a time, to the classroom to listen to lecture, that he is giving the students.
  • When House asks what time the class ends, and Cuddy tells him 20 minutes ago.
  • There is only one patient the other two are in his mind.




    House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes
      • "On average, drug addicts are stupid." House to Students


      • "I think I'm coming down with a little bit of the clap. May have to go home for a few days." House to Cuddy

      • "The great thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for." House to Students

      House M.D. Episode Trivia

      • Cuddy was House's doctor when he hurt his leg.







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