Location from House M.D. by David Shore
The first-floor clinic where House is forced to treat ordinary patients with ordinary problems — and where the mundane diagnosis of a walk-in sometimes triggers the breakthrough on the impossible case upstairs.
All PPTH doctors are required to serve minimum clinic hours. House has been dodging this obligation since his first day. He fakes illness, makes bets, and once agreed to give up Vicodin for a week to avoid it. When he does work the clinic, he diagnoses patients in thirty seconds, insults them, and leaves. The irony — which House would never admit — is that clinic patients regularly provide the unrelated observation that triggers his diagnostic epiphany on the real case. The boring patient with dry skin says something about their medication, and House's eyes go distant, and he walks out mid-sentence to write a new differential on the whiteboard. The clinic is also where House met Tritter, with consequences that nearly ended his career. Routine medicine, House would tell you, is where all the interesting problems start.
An open waiting area on the first floor with examination rooms branching off a corridor. Plastic chairs, fluorescent lighting, a reception desk staffed by nurses who know House's face and dread his shifts. The decor is institutional and functional — this is where medicine meets the general public, and the general public does not get the glass walls and coffee makers of the fourth floor.
Also known as: The Clinic, Free Clinic, Clinic Duty