House M.D.

by David Shore

Dr. Gregory House leads a team of diagnosticians at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, solving cases no one else can crack. Brilliant, misanthropic, and in constant pain, House treats medicine as a puzzle and human connection as an inconvenience — until it isn't.

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Characters

• Blythe House — House's mother — a kind, loving woman who either didn't see or couldn't stop the abuse her husband inflicted on their son, and who kept the secret of
• Detective Michael Tritter — The cop who wouldn't let a rectal thermometer go — a stubborn, vengeful detective who saw House's Vicodin addiction and decided that breaking a brilli
• Dominika Petrova — A Ukrainian immigrant who married House for a green card and somehow ended up genuinely caring about him — the accidental wife of the most unmarriagea
• Dr. Allison Cameron — The immunologist whose empathy is both her greatest diagnostic tool and her most dangerous blind spot — a woman who married a dying man at twenty-one
• Dr. Amber Volakis — The female House — 'Cutthroat Bitch' who lost the fellowship competition, won Wilson's heart, and died on a bus because House called for a ride home d
• Dr. Chi Park — A neurology resident with anger issues and zero internal censor who punched her superior for groping her — and found that House's team was the only pl
• Dr. Chris Taub — A former plastic surgeon in midlife crisis who traded a lucrative practice for House's diagnostic team — because cheating on his wife was easier than
• Dr. Eric Foreman — The team member most like House — and the one most terrified of becoming him. A neurologist who pushes back, plays it safe, and keeps getting promoted
• Dr. Gregory House — A diagnostic genius crippled by his own leg, his Vicodin addiction, and the terrifying suspicion that solving puzzles is the only thing that makes him
• Dr. James Wilson — House's only real friend — an oncologist who is kind to everyone, serially divorced, pathologically codependent, and the one person who makes House al
• Dr. Jessica Adams — A prison doctor from old money who joined House's team in his final season — idealistic, principled, and wealthy enough to never need the job, which m
• Dr. Lawrence Kutner — The brightest and most optimistic of House's new fellows — a creative genius who loved puzzles, magic tricks, and making people like him, and whose su
• Dr. Lisa Cuddy — The Dean of Medicine who hired a man she knew would be a liability because she also knew he'd be irreplaceable — and has spent every day since proving
• Dr. Martha Masters — A medical prodigy and strict moralist who joined House's team as a temporary fellow — the only person who consistently refused to lie for House, which
• Dr. Remy Hadley — A doctor with Huntington's disease who chose to spend her numbered days solving other people's medical mysteries — because making her life matter befo
• Dr. Robert Chase — The pretty boy surgeon who everyone underestimates — until they realize he's the best deductive reasoner on the team after House, and the only one wil
• Edward Vogler — A pharmaceutical billionaire who tried to buy Princeton-Plainsboro and break House — and discovered that a hospital that tolerates a genius will prote
• John House — House's stepfather — a Marine whose strict discipline crossed into abuse and whose rigid honesty shaped everything House hates about authority and eve
• Lucas Douglas — A private investigator who dated Cuddy and briefly became House's replacement in her life — charming, resourceful, and utterly unequipped to compete w
• Mark Warner — Stacy's husband — the man House diagnosed, nearly killed, and ultimately decided deserved to keep the woman House loved because Mark could make her ha
• Rachel Taub — Taub's long-suffering wife who gave him an ultimatum — plastic surgery or their marriage — and watched him choose the marriage while continuing to che
• Stacy Warner — The lawyer who loved House, overrode his medical judgment to save his life, and destroyed their relationship in the same decision — the woman House tr
• Steve McQueen — House's pet rat — the only living creature that depends on House without asking him to change, which is probably why he named it after the King of Coo

Locations

• 221B Baker Street — House's apartment — the Sherlock Holmes address where a diagnostic genius lives alone with a rat, a piano, a guitar, and enough Vicodin to stock a pha
• Cuddy's Office — The administrative nerve center of PPTH — where Cuddy runs the hospital and House shows up to negotiate, argue, flirt, and occasionally do what he's t
• Diagnostics Conference Room — The glass-walled room on the fourth floor where House's team runs differential diagnoses on a whiteboard — the intellectual arena where impossible cas
• Emergency Room — PPTH's emergency department — where patients arrive, Cameron eventually ran the show, and the cases too weird for standard medicine get escalated to t
• House's Office — The inner sanctum where House retreats to think, play his guitar, bounce his ball against the wall, and avoid clinic duty — connected to the diagnosti
• Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital — The psychiatric facility where House voluntarily committed himself after his Vicodin-fueled hallucinations became indistinguishable from reality — the
• MRI & Imaging Suite — The basement-level imaging department where the machines see what the doctors can't — and where House orders scans he isn't authorized to run.
• Oncology Department — Wilson's domain — the department where he delivered terminal diagnoses with impossible gentleness and where he was eventually diagnosed himself.
• PPTH Cafeteria — The hospital cafeteria where Wilson eats lunch and House steals it — a first-floor dining room that doubles as a social arena where hospital politics
• PPTH Chapel — The hospital chapel where patients and families seek comfort and House occasionally shows up to argue with the concept of God.
• PPTH Free Clinic — The first-floor clinic where House is forced to treat ordinary patients with ordinary problems — and where the mundane diagnosis of a walk-in sometime
• PPTH Lecture Hall — The first-floor amphitheater where House held his reality-TV-style fellowship competition — forty applicants fighting for three spots while House elim
• Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital — A teaching hospital in Princeton, New Jersey where one department generates more lawsuits, medical breakthroughs, and administrative headaches than th
• Princeton, New Jersey — A university town in New Jersey that happens to contain the most dysfunctional teaching hospital in American television — ivy-covered normalcy wrapped
• Wilson's Office — The oncology department office where Wilson sees patients and House shows up uninvited to steal food, talk about nothing, and accidentally solve cases

Items

• House's Cane — The walking cane that House needs for his damaged leg and wields like an extension of his personality — part medical necessity, part prop, part weapon
• House's Motorcycle — The motorcycle House rides despite his damaged leg — because a man who refuses to let pain stop him from solving cases certainly isn't going to let it
• House's Piano — The grand piano in House's apartment where he plays at two in the morning when his brain is working on a problem his conscious mind can't solve.
• House's Tennis Ball — The red and gray ball House throws against his office wall when he's thinking — a sensory metronome for a brain that works best when the body is occup
• The Diagnostic Whiteboard — The glass whiteboard where House writes the differential diagnosis — symptoms on one side, hypotheses on the other, and the answer somewhere in the sp
• Vicodin — The hydrocodone painkiller that manages House's leg pain, fuels his addiction, and has become as much a part of his identity as his cane and his diagn

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