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DR. LAWRENCE KUTNER, played by Kal Penn

House M.D. Character ProfileHouse Character's Backstory: Dr. Lawrence Kutner was # 6 on his application for the fellowship. He was initially fired, but he turned his number card upside down, turning it into a # 9 and proposed the idea of stress testing a patient's liver by alcohol intoxication. This amused House and allowed Kutner to stay.

Out of all the new fellows, Kutner takes the most risks and partakes willingly in House's antics, including grave-digging and breaking into patients' houses. He is also the most enthusiastic.

Dr. Kutner is jokingly titled by House the "Chief Defibrillist", because of his quick use of the defibrillator to save two patients. In both situations Kutner either set the patient on fire or shocked himself. His recklessness because of this is a reason why Cuddy disapproves of him; she had arranged with Cole, another "contestant", to force House to fire Kutner. However, this backfired on Cole and Kutner was successfully hired by House to be a member of the new team.

He is also suspected by House to be a masochist. The patient from the episode Mirror, Mirror also seems to relay this fact.

In the episode "Simple Explanation", Kutner apparently committed suicide with a pistol.


House Character Stats

Reason for becoming a doctor: Watching M.A.S.H. as a kid.
Medical Specialty: Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine
Personality type: Ambitious
Signature look: Casual, almost athletic clothing
Vice(s):
Virtue(s): Persistence
Endearing trait(s): Innocence
Annoying trait(s): kisses up to House, Recklessness

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Dr. Lawrence Kutner's family members: Kutner's parents were murdered by a man robbing their convenience store when he was six years old (4x16 "Wilson's Heart").


Romance(s): Asked Amber Volakis on a date; she refused.


Friends: Dr. Chris Taub, Dr. Remy Hadley, Dr. Jeffrey Cole


Enemies:


Other information: Once sold men's fragrance in a department store (414 Living The Dream)



UNFORGETTABLE HOUSE CHARACTER QUOTES
DEFINING HOUSE EPISODES | SCENES
  • "Ugly" - (Talking to the patient) "I was doing drugs behind my father's back at your age and I had a lot less reason to be.... Not that your life must be miserable.... Not that I am suggesting you should be doing drugs!"

  • 4x02, "The Right Stuff" - "Her heart is beating." (After he just lit the patient on fire because he used the defibrillators in a hyperbaric chamber.)

  • 4x05, "Mirror Mirror" - "I'm not a masochist. I just like experience; if it's new, it's interesting. I'm just easily bored."


  • 4x11, "Frozen" - "NO!!!!" (Kutner actually stood up to House)
  • 4x02, "The Right Stuff" - Kutner comes up with a ingenious test of how to test the patient's liver without it being charted as a medical procedure, saving himself from being fired. He got the patient wasted!

  • 4x05, "Mirror Mirror" - Kutner uses the defibrillators on a wet patient, saving the patient's life and almost ending his own.

  • 4x11, "Frozen " - Kutner finally stands up to House for a good reason and solves his first case.

  • 4x16, "Wilson's Heart" - Kutner reveals the death of his parents to Hadley; they were murdered by a robber when he was six.
  • 5x20, "Simple Explanation" - Kutner is found dead in his appartment by Foreman and 13. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his own pistol.








DR. LAWRENCE KUTNER PHOTOS
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Kutner and House ponder
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Lawrence Kutner and Remy Hadley
Dr. Rema Hadley and Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Cast
Taub, Hadley, Kutner and House


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