| Location of incident: | - John - radiation burns (attempted assassination according to the CIA)
- Casey - being interviewed after a drag race
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| Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW | - John/ CIA operative/ Male
- Casey Alfonso/ drag racer/ Female
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| POTW symptom(s): | - John: What appeared to be radiation poisoning
- Casey: things slow down; seizure, fever, fainting
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| Team mis-diagnoses: | - John: Pancreatitis from a fungal infection brought on by alcohol consumption; radiation poisoning; leukemia.
- Casey: Miller-Fisher syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis, botulism, polio
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| House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: | - Casey's team goes behind Foreman's back (on Cameron's orders) and give her steroid treatment for MS. Her legs go numb.
- Brennan poisoned Casey so it would appear she had polio. This was in order for the researchers to be able to pursue their research on Vitamin C for polio.
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| House's "Aha!" moment: | When John mentioned where he'd been, House realized the "nuts" the CIA had been referring to were the actually Brazil nuts, not chestnuts. Those were causing John's symptoms.
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| POTW final diagnosis: | - John: Selenosis (selenium overdose) from eating significant amounts of Brazil Nuts.
- Casey: Initially heatstroke, later poisoned with thallium by Dr. Brennan.
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