House

Not all items occur in exact order.

• Patient gets sick.
• House is too busy to care.
• Setup of House dealing with secondary patient’s trivial malady.
• Something happens to make Patient/ Patient’s family unlikable.
• Something unexpected happens.
• House now cares.
• Setup of episode’s life/love lesson with his friend in Oncology.
• House alienates his boss.
• House asks staff for opinions of sick person’s condition.
• House condescendingly disagrees with everyone’s consensus opinion.
• Situation arises where THE PATIENT WILL DIE if House follows the rules.
• House breaks the rules to follow his hunch.
• Patient almost dies.
• Boss threatens House while simultaneously covering his ass.
• Elaboration of this Episode’s life/love lesson with friend in oncology.
• House lets his staff follow their hunch with more tests.
• Resolution of secondary patient’s trivial malady.
• Patient almost dies.
• House realizes that his staff was almost right, but something doesn’t fit.
• House interrogates patient / unlikable family member
• It is discovered that the patient/ patient’s unlikable family withheld important detail.
• Withheld information changes diagnosis.
• House does last-ditch test that could possibly kill patient
• Test determines that it's actually someting entirely different that's killing te patient
• Situation arises where THE PATIENT WILL DIE if House follows the rules.
• House breaks the rules and saves patient.
• House acts smug for only taking four tries to get a correct diagnosis, and having wiped his ass with the hippocratic oath
• Recovering patient and family deal with painful secret.
• Resolution of this Episode’s life/love lesson with oncologist friend.
• House is sad because he has to walk with a cane.
• The end.