PPTH Cafeteria

Location from House M.D. by David Shore

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 play out over bad coffee.

House and Wilson eat lunch together in the cafeteria almost every day. House steals Wilson's food. Wilson pretends to mind. They discuss cases, personal lives, and nothing in particular, and somewhere in the conversation House has an epiphany. The cafeteria is also where hospital social dynamics are visible — who sits with whom, who's avoiding whom, which departments are feuding. It's the break room of a building that never really stops working.

Appearance

A standard institutional cafeteria on the first floor of PPTH. Long tables, plastic trays, a food service line, and the fluorescent-lit ambiance of every hospital cafeteria everywhere. Nothing special about the space itself — what makes it notable is who eats there and what they discuss.

Also known as: The Cafeteria, The Caf

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