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208: The Mistake

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"The Mistake"


House Episode Number: 208

House Season: 2

Original Air Date: November 29, 2005

Writer: Peter Blake

Director: David Semel

Special Guest(s): Sela Ward, Stephanie Venditto, Kate Enggren, Adair Tishler, Licia Shearer, Ryan Hurst, Kevin Moon, Sterling Beaumon, John Lafayette, Allison Smith, John Rubenstein, Greg Winter, Sammi Hanratty
HOUSE MD 208: "The Mistake"

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

House and Chase find themselves in a serious situation after a young mother with stomach pains dies. Months later, Stacy counsels Chase prior to his disciplinary hearing, and must determine whether Chase made a mistake that ultimately led to the patient's death. She soon realizes he is holding something back.

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

Location of incident: 6 months previously at a talent contest.
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Kayla/Mother of Two/?/Female
POTW symptom(s):
  • Stomach pain
  • Joint pain
Team mis-diagnoses: Bichette's - tests confirm it but... due to what turns out to be an understandable distraction, Chase missing a bleeding ulcer, which later perforates spilling the content of her stomach into her body and she gets septic. She needs an emergency liver transplant but has a rare blood type and her brother matches perfectly according to tests he brings them.
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: First House tries to bribe and then blackmails a surgeon to do a liver transplant (later it appears that House uncharacteristically told the surgeon's wife that he was having an affair even though the surgeon did the surgery). And both he and Chase lie to Stacy, even though she is trying to help them.
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: The brother has hepatitis and an undiagnosed hepatoma that was transplanted with his liver. It grew a lot faster in Kayla because she was immunosuppressed. The doctors were able to save the brother but not Kayla.
Other / clinic patient(s):
  • The patient started out as Chase's clinic patient.
  • Chuck, a clinic patient House sees can afford expensive gadgets but not health insurance. House tells him a story about a patient named Buck who "has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. His lung tissue's turning to rock. There's no known cause, no treatment. He is slowly suffocating.... Lung transplant's about a half a million dollars, but this poor sucker's got no insurance. If he tried to sign up now, he'd be excluded, pre-existing condition." Patient rushes out to get insurance. When Stacy complains about the way he gave his diagnosis, House tells her, "He's got a cold, and soon, health insurance."
  • Susan, another clinic patient without health insurance, to whom House also tells a story about a patient named Fusan.


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