| Location of incident: | OR - Kenny is scheduled for a 10 hour surgery to fix his face disfigurement and has a heart attack during the surgery.
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| Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: | Kenny/Student/Teenager/Male
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| POTW symptom(s): | - Headaches
- Coughing up blood
- Finger twitching
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| Team mis-diagnoses: | - Drug use (specifically, freon huffing)
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
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| House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: | - Attempting to stop Kenny's heart to get him to admit to drug use (which he doesn't do).
- Taub going behind House's back.
- House visits Taub's old work place to find out why he left plastic surgery.
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| House's "Aha!" moment: | N/A; Thirteen has the epiphany immediately before Kenny is prepped for his surgery a second time. |
| POTW final diagnosis: | Lyme disease (the definitive "bull's-eye rash" was hidden beneath his hairline)
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| Other / clinic patient(s): | None.
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