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A major league baseball player on the verge of a comeback suffers a bone fracture and respiratory failure.

Occam's RazorA college student collapses after sex. While the team looks for complex answers, House applies Occam’s Razor: the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

An infarction (blood clot) in House's thigh that went undiagnosed too long, leading to muscle death.

Chase's estranged father, a world-renowned physician, visits Princeton-Plainsboro, revealing deep familial trauma. Episode 14: "Control" Original Air Date: March 15, 2005 index of house m.d. season 1

Victoria, a homeless woman with a mysterious medical history and an aversion to hospitals. Diagnosis: Rabies.

House fills in to teach a medical lecture class. Through three hypothetical stories, he teaches the students about diagnosis, bias, and reveals the definitive truth behind his own leg infarction and subsequent disability.

A major league baseball pitcher making a comeback who breaks his arm simply by throwing a pitch. A major league baseball player on the verge

Season 1 establishes that patients are unreliable narrators. House’s diagnostics team routinely relies on illegal breaking-and-entering into patients' homes to uncover hidden toxins, secret drugs, and lifestyle lies that are crucial to solving the medical puzzle. The Origin of the Limp

House M.D. debuted on FOX in 2004, redefining the television medical drama. Led by the misanthropic, vicodin-addicted diagnostic genius Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the first season established the show's signature formula: a medical mystery presented as a detective story. Working alongside his hand-picked team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, House solves cases that baffle everyone else, operating under the cynical mantra that "everybody lies."

A schizophrenic mother with deep vein thrombosis is targeted by social services, but House suspects her mental illness is a symptom rather than a baseline condition. An infarction (blood clot) in House's thigh that

Neurocysticercosis (a tapeworm infestation in the brain from eating undercooked pork).

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (a rare mutation of the measles virus contracted in infancy).