The Diagnostic Whiteboard

Item from House M.D. by David Shore

The glass whiteboard where House writes the differential diagnosis — symptoms on one side, hypotheses on the other, and the answer somewhere in the space between what's been eliminated and what remains.

Also known as: The Whiteboard, DDx Board, The Differential Board, The Glass Board

What They Know

• Glass dry-erase board in the diagnostics conference room — the primary tool for running differential diagnoses
• Process: symptoms listed on one side, diagnostic hypotheses on the other — eliminated possibilities are crossed out as tests return results
• Embodies Holmes's axiom: 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth' — the show's entire diagnostic philosophy
• House writes the first symptom to begin a case and adds the final diagnosis when it's solved — the whiteboard is the narrative frame of every episode

Connections

• used_by — house
• located_in — diagnostics_room

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