212: Distractions

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"DISTRACTIONS"

House Episode Number: 212

House Season: 2

Original Air Date: February 14, 2006

Writer: Lawrence Kaplow

Director: Dan Attias

Special Guest(s): Stephanie Venditto (Brenda the Nurse) , Judy Louise Johnson (Surgeon), Michael Merton (Anesthesiologist), Kristen Pate (Paula), Dorothea Harahan (EMT), Dan Butler (Dr. Phillip Weber), James Immekus (Adam), Lisa Darr (Emily), Christopher Cousins (Doug)

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While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.

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

Location of incident:	While dirt biking
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Adam/?/16/Male
POTW symptom(s):	Seizure 40% burns on his body Low Potassium Convulsions Bleeding Orgasm while in a hyperbaric chamber Infection
Team mis-diagnoses:	MS
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	House induces a migraine on himself and takes LSD to get rid of it. House wakes Adam up from the coma to ask him a quick question.
House's "Aha!" moment:	House is about to wake Adam up for a second time when he realizes Adam has a cigarette burn on his wrist.
POTW final diagnosis:	Serotonin Storm - Adam was over dosing on anti-depressants by using cheap nicotine patches.
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House is intent on proving that a former colleague from medical school's new migraine drug doesn't work.

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House going incognito.

Never practice medicine on yourself.

Brainstorming

A shower to wake himself up.

Cameron does a quick exam on House.

Back to his old ornery self.

Reflection time.

Whose he arguing with?